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Risks and rewards

georgiandaily.com     11 hrs ago   5 related          

Alexandros Petersen*, International Herald Tribune Russia's Resurgence The United States and Russia can't see eye to eye on anything these days. However, they may soon be staring eyeball to eyeball again, as reports surfaced...                

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Former head of Russian Presidential Security Service claims saving Slavyansky Bazar by presenting...

belradio.fm     13 hrs ago          

Aleksandr Korzhakov, former head of Boris Yeltsin's Security Service, told Russia's Express Gazeta that he had helped to stop the decline of the Slavyansky Bazar in Vitsyebsk festival by presenting a $10,000 accordion to...                

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Barack Plays the Tiergarten

agonist.org     22 hrs ago   14 related          

It’s only natural that Barack Obama’s speech today in Berlin is being judged in the context of the election campaign. All the television pundits are pondering deeply over whether it was wise for a candidate to give a foreign...                

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Nearly a quarter of BP production at stake in Russia

chron.com     yesterday   179 related          

For President Dmitry Medvedev, who took office in May, TNK-BP may be the first big test of his energy policies. Medvedev was chairman of Gazprom for six years as the gas producer and pipeline owner grew to be the third-largest...                

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Moscow Seeks To Fragment Post-Soviet Unity On Rights

russiaprofile.org     yesterday   1 related          

By Robert Coalson The question of the purpose and role of international election monitors, one would think, should be a pretty easy one. But at a conference at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in...                

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Church, State and History

washingtonpost.com     yesterday   1 related          

MOSCOW -- The Russian Orthodox Church called on government authorities this month to condemn the Soviet communist regime. It's odd that the church should think about this now: It's been two decades since Mikhail Gorbachev...                

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Whose on top?

scrippsnews.com     yesterday          

WASHINGTON -- One of Washington's odder practices, redolent of the Third World and its autocratic leaders, is having standard-issue portrait photos of the current president plastered all over federal government buildings and...                

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10. Stalin or the czar?

iht.com     Jul 23, 2008   7 related          

The latest controversy over voting in Russia has nothing to do with rigged presidential elections. The vote in question is an Internet vote for the greatest Russian in history, sponsored by the state-owned Rossiya television...                

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No PM, however dour, can resist the charms of a stately pile

timesonline.co.uk     yesterday          

Our Roundhead Prime Minister has become an unexpected convert to Chequers. “Gordon will become the first Prime Minister in 80 years not to use Chequers.” His aides explained that Mr Brown would be mothballing the 16th- century...                

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COMMENT : Wary of China, Russians look West

atimes.com     yesterday   1 related          

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made all the right noises during his recent visit to China. But for many Russians back home, China, with its vast potentially expansionist population, is viewed with fear, and they see their...                

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