These made it difficult to get in-depth information on the roles of actors, how decisions were taken and how policy turning points took place.
(Shamil Basayev, Russia's other most-wanted man, has claimed responsibility for Beslan, but denied taking cash from Osama bin Laden).Some Russian liberals see this contretemps as a foreign-policy turning-point.
He was one wise man Johnson did not even invite to the White House, and his televised testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in 1966, where he spoke out against the Administration's Vietnam policy, was a turning point in the antiwar movement.
"U.S. monetary policy is reaching a turning point, and this has led to an unexpectedly large increase in long-term yields in the United States and many other economies," the fund said.
The document was described as an "earthquake" in the Church's attitude towards gays and heralded as a "turning point" in policy by Vatican experts.
Afghanistan, with its potential to drain national resources and wreak havoc with Obama's political capital, ranks at the top of these challenges, and his policy there is at a turning point.
In terms of policy, John Collins, coordinator of the International Drug Policy Project at LSE, says 2014 is a turning point for global drug policy.
Danny Kushlick, the director of Transform Drug Policy Foundation, said: "This is a turning point in drug policy reform.
The conference marked a turning point in Nazi policy toward the Jews.
If heeded, this intervention could mark an important turning point in funding policy.
The transition from critic to policy maker has been a tricky turning point for dissidents in other countries.
