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Putin's man to be people's choice
ON SUNDAY the Russian people will participate in the "democratic" coronation of a new president, Dmitry Medvedev, to succeed Vladimir Putin. Voters in this republic of 140 million, a major nuclear power with the world's largest hydrocarbon reserves, will transfer power for only the second time since the demise of the Soviet Union by formally ratifying Mr Putin's anointed choice after a distinctly one-sided election campaign. p
Bribery and taxation
CAN THE end justify the means? Yes, when the end is to detect and prosecute tax evaders and the only means is to pay a €4 million bribe to a whistleblower for information to secure a conviction and to recover unpaid tax. p
Opinion
FF is not yet banging on inscrutable Bertie's door
INSIDE POLITICS : Ahern is fulfilling a useful function for FF presently, since so much political/media time is consumed by tribunal appearances, writes Mark Hennessy . pThird Lazarus-like rebound for Clinton seems unlikely
ANALYSIS : Hillary is confronting in Obama a gifted, attractive and skilful politician who has out-organised and out-manoeuvred her, writes Denis Staunton . pSuicide and what it means to the Bebo generation
Are internet shrines cementing the normalisation of suicide, asks Breda O'Brien . pTime running out to make case for Lisbon
The Yes campaign will have to hit the ground running this week, argues Noel Whelan . pBerlin as the new Achill- despite Böll
WORLD VIEW: Heinrich Böll's slim volume of sly beauty has frozen an ideal of Ireland in millions of German minds, writes Derek Scally . pIRA's economic devastation of North plagues hopes for unity
Businessmen considered risks of investing in Northern Ireland too great, writes Garret Fitzgerald. p
An Irishman's Diary
Franz Liszt, Pope Leo XIII and former British government minister Norman St John-Stevas - these three men are linked together by a Cork-born painter called Harry Jones Thaddeus, writes Robert O'Byrne . p
