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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>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>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>US Embassy Cables: Amateur Hour</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/12/us-embassy-cables-amateur-hour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 07:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By shining the light on the kindergarten that is the US Foreign Service, Wikileaks has effectively put an end to US diplomatic activities worldwide. No amount of damage control by the Department of State will turn the clock back and give back American diplomats the respect they lost. It will have to be earned from scratch over the coming years and decades. Short of a major asteroid impact, this leak of embassy cables is the most damaging thing that could have hit America's national interests.
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		<title>Safety of Luge</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/02/safety-of-luge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tragic death of Nodar Kumaritashvili on the luge track in Vancouver is the cause of online discussion about safety of this sport. Many criticize track designers and organizers of the Games for the track&#8217;s perceived lax safety standards. Others wonder if safety is even possible in a sport where one rides a tiny sled [...]
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		<title>Olympic Bones</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/02/olympic-bones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I am sitting here watching the Olympics, I am reminded of a CNN (I think it was CNN) special a few years ago. Some angry-looking activists were discussing the alarming popularity of online videos depicting street fights, schoolyard brawls and such. The gist of the discussion was that most of us share the responsibility [...]
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		<title>Ukrainian Elections</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/02/ukrainian-elections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Liberast&#8221; is the term coined in Russia in the 1990s that is finding its way into the English language. As you might have already guessed, this term combines the words &#8220;liberal&#8221; and &#8220;pederast&#8221;. I don&#8217;t think you will have any trouble figuring out the intended meaning of this portmanteau. Western liberasts often use Ukraine as [...]
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		<title>Oracle vs. MySQL</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/01/oracle-vs-mysql/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems &#8211; the creator of Solaris operating system and manufacturer of my favorite computers &#8211; is being acquired by Oracle &#8211; the maker of the world&#8217;s leading commercial database software that works best on Sun servers. This seems like a good deal for both Oracle and Sun. Unfortunately, this merger will be very bad [...]
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		<title>Your Savings and the Decline of the Dollar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago I wrote about the plans Russia and other oil-producing nations have for breaking the tie between the price of oil and the value of the dollar. For years Russia and OPEC countries have been tiptoeing around this issue until the recent massive collapse of the US banking industry forced their plans [...]
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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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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow&#8217;s seventy-year anniversary of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact is giving some historians and journalists pretending to be historians an unbearable urge to write nonsense. The Pact and, most importantly, its secret provisions are blamed by the Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians for the years of &#8220;Soviet occupation&#8221;. This was a difficult period in the history of [...]
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