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		<title>NATO, Russia, and Romania</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/12/nato-russia-and-romania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the recent interview for Romania Libera, Basescu announced that Romania will absorb its poor neighbor Moldova within twenty five years. According to Basescu, this "reunification" is a done deal and would have happened earlier if it wasn't for the interference from the evil Russians. Acquiring Moldova's territories is a key aspect of the Greater Romania concept.
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		<title>Microsoft for Soviet Macedonia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know why, but today I stopped by Microsoft&#8217;s Bing search engine. I was greeted by a photo of Lake Debar located in western Macedonia near the border with Albania. When I hovered the mouse over little black squares on the photo, I was given a quick lesson in Macedonia&#8217;s history. My knowledge of [...]
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		<title>Why Russia and Poland Will Never be Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably heard the story by now: a plane full of Polish russophobes flew into a tree in Russia. Too bad Dante is dead: a lot of good material for a Commedia sequel. There is a veritable flurry of news reports and editorials predicting an epic thaw in relations between Russia and Poland. A brief [...]
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		<title>How Poland Defeated the USSR</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest article on Russo-Polish relations Matthew Day, a Warsaw-based reporter for The Telegraph, provides a curious timeline of some major events in the common history of the two countries. According to Mr. Day, in 1919-1921 &#8220;Poland defeats Soviet Union in war&#8221;. A snafu like this I would expect from CNN, but a British [...]
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		<title>Victims with Guns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Reading Airshow, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Photos: 2009 V-Day Celebrations in Russia</title>
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		<title>Photos: Russian and Soviet Posters, part 4</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fourth and last part of the gallery featuring commercial and propaganda posters from the Soviet days and the time of the Russian Empire. Political and advertisement posters were a highly developed form of art in Russia and the Soviet Union. My favorite period is definitely the 1890-1930 Russian modernism with its avant-garde and supermatism [...]
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		<title>Photos: Russian and Soviet Posters, part 3</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The third part of the gallery featuring commercial and propaganda posters from the Soviet days and the time of the Russian Empire. Political and advertisement posters were a highly developed form of art in Russia and the Soviet Union. My favorite period is definitely the 1890-1930 Russian modernism with its avant-garde and supermatism movements.  The [...]
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