He has encouraged a new round of arms reductions talks with the United States and reactivated Moscow's relations with NATO, which were curtailed during the war in Kosovo.
After the tragedy there were fresh calls from the UN and human rights groups to renew large scale search-and-rescue operations off the Italian coast which were curtailed last year.
One crucial and unresolved economic problem was reliance on energy imports from Russia (comprising 90% of Belarus' oil and gas supplies), which were curtailed periodically throughout the year because of unpaid debts.
The Proceso investigation is based on documents from an initial state-level investigation which was curtailed when federal authorities took over in early October.
After the assassination, she worked at the Jamaican school of drama, and taught literacy in Maurice Bishop's New Jewel Movement in Grenada, which was curtailed by the Reagan invasion of 1983.
While there have been reports and discussion of the incident in state media and on the country's rollicking microblog network, which is curtailed by censors, attempts to organise protests have been swiftly quashed.
The American dissatisfaction comes during a vigorous debate within the Bush administration over military aid to Indonesia, which was curtailed by Congress because of human rights violations by the Indonesian military.
The sorry end to Maazel's artistic and general directorship of the Vienna State Opera, a four-year contract which he had undertaken with such buoyant optimism in 1982, but which was curtailed in 1984, was on the other hand not his fault: the city's notoriously intransigent musicians had already conflicted with more amenable figures.
Lortel, who died last year, provided for the perpetuation of her singular showcase, which was curtailed over the years from a theater for plays, whole plays with whole casts, to a two-night-a-week tryout spot for solo or cabaret type shows, given the rigidity of Actors Equity rules.
Zico, however, would not touch with a bargepole a place on the organising committee after his experience as leading man of Brazil's ill-fated bid to host to the 2006 tournament, which was curtailed by a voting deal with South Africa with the connivance of the Brazilian FA's president, Ricardo Teixeira, and without Zico's knowledge.
This tour replaced West Indies' tour of India, which was curtailed by the tourists over a pay dispute.
