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		<title>Baltic Pirates &#8211; the Mystery Revealed</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2011/02/baltic-pirates-the-mystery-revealed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may still remember the strange hijacking on the Russian cargo vessel &#8220;Arctic Sea&#8221; in the Baltic in late July of 2009. The ship was boarded by masked men wearing police-like uniforms and armed with automatic weapons. The captain and the crew were forced to sail the ship to Africa. Inexplicably, the 4.4-ton [...]
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		<title>FBI Rushes to VISA&#8217;s Defense</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2011/01/fbi-rushes-to-visas-defense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FBI has announced that it executed 40 search warrants for suspected members of the Anonymous international hacktivist group known for its actions in of Wikileaks. Police in the UK has arrested five suspected members of the group. Anonymous is credited with the successful attacks against VISA and MasterCard payment systems late last year after [...]
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		<title>Conspiracy Theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am at work, filling my office with clouds of cigar smoke and reading Jim Goad&#8217;s &#8220;Julian Assange’s Honey Trap: That’s Rape in Sweden&#8220;, perhaps the most entertaining account to date of Assange&#8217;s Stockholm adventure. And a seemingly redundant question popped into my head: why exactly did Assange go to Sweden? I know, he went [...]
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		<title>Sweden Wants Out</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/12/sweden-wants-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swedish prosecutors investigating Julian Assange told reporters that they were not involved in the Crown Prosecution Service&#8217;s decision to appeal an earlier decision by a judge at City of Westminster magistrates court granting Assange bail. &#8220;Karin Rosander, director of communications for Sweden&#8217;s prosecutor&#8217;s office, told the Guardian: &#8220;The decision was made by the British prosecutor. [...]
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		<title>Nothing Odd</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 08:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago Claes Borgström (thank God I am not Swedish), the lawyer representing Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilén in the sex case against Julian Assange, decided to explain some of the more obvious discrepancies in his clients&#8217; version of events. Normally, this is what a good lawyer would be expected to do [...]
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		<title>WikiDefendors</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/12/wikidefendors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Wikileaks and Julian Assange gained two new influential supporters: the UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay and her nemesis the Batman (aka Russia&#8217;s prime minister Vladimir Putin). Putin&#8217;s vocal support of Julian Assange comes a day after a member of Medvedev&#8217;s administration suggested Assange should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. &#8220;When asked [...]
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		<title>Nobel Prize for Assange</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/12/nobel-prize-for-assange/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unnamed member of Medvedev&#8217;s administration told Russian new agency RIA Novosti that nominating Assange for the Nobel Peace Prize should improve his chances resisting legal and political pressure. While it is unlikely that such a nomination will come from the Russian administration, the fact that they are even talking about this in the Kremlin [...]
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		<title>NATO, Russia, and Romania</title>
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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>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>Mistral for Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[France&#8217;s decision to sell four Mistral-class helicopter carriers to Russia was met with heavy criticism in the US, Georgia and the Baltic States. Interestingly enough, Russia&#8217;s decision to buy the four vessels for more than $2 billion was met with a lot of criticism within Russia as well. This is really the first time in [...]
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