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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>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>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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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>Holbrooke&#8217;s Dead</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/12/holbrookes-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of America&#8217;s preeminent diplomats (a title not hard to attain, judging by the Wikileaks&#8217; publications), former VP of a leading private equity firm Perseus LLC, and former board member of AIG died at the age of 69 from a ruptured aortic aneurysm after a meeting with Secretary Clinton. Evil tongues claim Wikileaks was the [...]
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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>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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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>Hotels for Business Travel</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/10/hotels-for-business-travel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I am coming back from a quick trip and I was staying at Marriott. At times of economic uncertainty many hotel chains (airlines, car rentals, and even restaurants) try targeting the business customer. The newly designed rooms at Marriott look like my office filled with Ikea furniture. Smells like one too. It&#8217;s not a [...]
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		<title>Global Moron Alert</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/08/global-moron-alert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my scientific study* on the density of morons in various almost randomly-selected countries. We deal with morons on a daily basis. Some of us would swear we are surrounded by morons. But how many morons are there? I decided to try to answer this question and arrived at some unexpected results. Wikipedia defines &#8220;moron&#8221; [...]
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		<title>Microsoft for Soviet Macedonia</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/08/microsoft-for-soviet-macedonia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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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>Secret Cell</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/07/secret-cell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry to disappoint you: this post is not about some new secret CIA jail discovered in a budding Eastern European democracy. What&#8217;s on my mind is all the ridiculous secrecy surrounding the development of the iPhone 4 and Nokia N8 and how it hurts the sales of these devices. In case you haven&#8217;t heard, iPhone [...]
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		<title>Microbrain(tm)</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/06/microbraintm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a few years ago I bought my Xbox 360, I had to shell out almost five hundred bucks. One of the extras I got was the 60Gb hard drive. Even by those times, charging a hundred dollars for what essentially is a standard 2.5&#8243; SATA hard drive with special firmware was highway robbery. And [...]
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		<title>Yak-130 Crashes in Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/05/yak-130-crashes-in-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 17:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Yak-130 advanced trainer jet crashed earlier today at the Lipetsk combat flight training center of the Russian AF. Both pilots ejected and were treated for minor injuries. There was no damage on the ground. The aircraft went out of control on takeoff during a routine training mission. This is first crash of an in-service [...]
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