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	<title>Let Me Tell You... &#187; Russia</title>
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		<title>Ukraine&#8217;s Quicksand</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2011/08/ukraines-quicksand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted anything for a while now: been busy. It seems the subject I find hardest to avoid is the political circus in Ukraine. Maybe it&#8217;s because I am from there, or maybe it&#8217;s because I always liked circus. I guess, we&#8217;ll never know for sure. And so, Ukraine&#8217;s former Prime Minister and socialite [...]
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		<title>NATO Says It Won&#8217;t Attack Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2011/06/nato-says-it-wont-attack-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to agree that it would look rather strange if you were to approach some random person on the street and tell him that you you will not punch him in the face. From time to time NATO leadership likes to reassure Russia of the Alliance&#8217;s friendly intentions. But in the past couple of [...]
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		<title>Putin&#8217;s Palace</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2011/02/putins-palace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahead of the presidential election in Russia, the opposition is pooling resources for an early smear campaign. The usual targets are other opposition leaders, the Communists, and the Kremlin. But the all-time favorite is, of course, Vladimir Putin. Will he run for president? Nobody knows. Gorbachev doesn&#8217;t think Putin will run. Nemtsov is certain that [...]
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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>Cézanne and Stem Cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times ran an interesting story on an unlikely diplomatic dispute between the US and Russia over fine art and inter-museum exchange. Apparently in July of last year a federal judge in DC ruled that Russia was supposed to hand over a collection of books and religious documents to a sect of Hasidic [...]
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		<title>Goodbuy Lenin?</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2011/01/goodbuy-lenin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Osborne of The Telegraph talks about the unofficial online poll conducted by Putin&#8217;s United Russia party regarding the proposed burial of Lenin&#8217;s body. According to the poll, some 66% of the respondents believe that Lenin should be buried. It is interesting that Andrew Osborne is so quick to believe United Russia&#8217;s claims when they [...]
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		<title>WikiDefendors</title>
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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>The Water Boys</title>
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		<title>Yak-130 Crashes in Russia</title>
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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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