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• Lets face it: Russia is dying

  
  News World — Authority:
  The BBC reports that Mr Bill Browder, head of a company called Hermitage Capital and once the largest foreign investor in Russia, has now described that large and empty country as “essentially a criminal state”. One’s first reaction is that Mr Browder, who has had far better opportunities for observation than ...
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• Report from the Russian (Entrepreneurial) Front

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 704
  Entrepreneurship , Education , Russia Bill Aulet wrote: November 20, 2009, Moscow, Russia —I write this from the Moscow airport on my way home to Massachusetts after teaming with MIT colleagues Howard Anderson and Peter Kurzina to teach a week-long boot camp on entrepreneurship for the first class of ...
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• Putin derides tiechewing Georgian leader

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Vladimir Putin has undiplomatically poked fun at the Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili saying that it may not be safe to wear a tie around him.
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• From The NY Times Via The A & L Daily: ‘Who Fears a Free Mikhail Khodorkovsky?’

  
  Chris Navin — Authority: 126
  Full article here . So how is the old state apparatus faring in Russia during the Putin clampdown, and who are its challengers..?: “His motives may have been mercenary, but Khodorkovsky in his cell has come to embody the fiat of the state, its arbitrary and boundless power” A really good job by the ...
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• Button up

  
  Charles Lambert — Authority: 128
  The France Soir correspondent in Rome, Ariel Dumont, has just been sacked for being anti-Berlusconian. This isnt what the paper says, of course. The editor talks about the need to rationalise its overseas representation for reasons of budget and denies any pressure from the newspapers owner. France Soir is ...
  3 days ago

• Vladurday: My name?

  
  Pundit Kitchen: Lol News and Lol Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and more — Authority: 617
  My name? Putin, Vladimir Putin. (Vladimir Putin) She’s cooler! Picture by: Clerlic Caption by: Clerlic via Our LOL Builder » Recaption This! » View All Captions
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• Radio Appearance

  
  The Oil and The Glory by Steve LeVine — Authority: 406
  I was interviewed about murder and death in Russia on My Technology Lawyer , a radio show hosted by Andrew Kreig and Scott Draughton.
  3 days ago

• Putin calls for modernization of Russian economy

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says Russia must modernize its economy and reduce its dependence on raw materials exports.
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• World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: Putin Soothes Dispute Over Price of Sending Fuel

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia took a more conciliatory stance toward Ukraine on Thursday in negotiations over the transit of Russian gas through Ukrainian territory.
  4 days ago

• Guest Post: The Great Geopolitical Battle Over Energy Transit Routes

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  Submitted by Philip de Leon of Oilprice.com The Great Geopolitical Battle Over Energy Transit Routes As we all live in the present, it is very hard to fully assess the future implications of decisions supported or made by political and business leaders. An extraordinary game of geo-strategy is under way to ...
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• The two faces of Angela Merkel

  
  Global News Blog — Authority: 517
    The German chancellor was described by Forbes  last month as the world’s most powerful woman, listing her as 15th   overall in its ranking of the World’s Most Powerful people.   Certainly, Merkel has been known to bare her teeth when it comes to castigating others like Zimbabwe’s leader Robert ...
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• Russian Court Extends Death Penalty Moratorium

  
  The Other Russia — Authority: 516
  Russia’s Constitutional Court has ruled to extend a moratorium on the death penalty. The moratorium, which had been set to expire in January 2010, will be extended until Russia ratifies a European protocol to ban it altogether. Chairman of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin stated that the decision corresponds ...
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• Who Fears a Free Mikhail Khodorkovsky?

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  Mikhail Khodorkovsky arriving at his trial in Moscow with hisever-present entourage of prison guards.
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• Putin ‘Bitch Slaps’ Billionaire Deripaska

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 439
  This is an eye opener - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin treats his cronies like little children in the following video, (hat tip: Hugh Hendry), in particular, Magna partner, Russian billionaire, Oleg Deripaska. According to Hugh Hendry (from this month’s Eclectica Fund Letter ): Furthermore, the big ...
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• Russian defence funding at unprecedented level: Putin

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  Russia has provided an "unprecedented" 970 billion roubles (22.6 billion euros, 33.8 billion dollars) to its defence industry this year, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday. State support for the sector had helped it grow by 3.8 percent since the start of the year despite the economic downturn, Putin said in ...
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• Internal Memo Indicts Police of Illegal Detentions

  
  The Other Russia — Authority: 516
  A high-level police memo ordering officers to disrupt a series of lawful protests has been obtained by opposition activists in Moscow, targeted for their calls to release arrested political activist Eduard Limonov. Denis Bilunov, leader of the Solidarity opposition movement and among those detained, said activists ...
  6 days ago

• Russian Rappers Video: Vladimir Putin Hot!

  
  Right On Music — Authority: 137
  Here is the Russian rappers video and the story behind it; Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s surprise appearance on the Muz-TV, ‘Battle for Respect’ contest for MCs, graffiti artists, and break-dancers on a music channel in the country. He handed out awards and declared his public support of hip-hop. ...
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• Echoblowcation: Nota Bene #2009-41

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 592
  A few things for you NB readers: 1. NB is now numbered by year-issue instead of marked by date; 2. NB will continue to be issued weekly, but not necessarily on Monday night/Tuesday morning; 3. I liked last week’s format ( quoted line from source ) so much I’m repeating it. Enjoy! … “[O]ur recovery is likely to ...
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• Putin spared as political satire returns to Russian TV

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  President Barack Obama raps and dances round the White House shouting out respect girl to his chief diplomat Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
  6 days ago

• Russian rappers, Putin, and ‘rap battle for justice’

  
  In Entertainment — Authority: 623
  It appears that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s appearance on a music TV show last week has inspired some people in the Kremlin elite, to follow in his footsteps. And on Tuesday, musicians and lawmakers staged a “rap battle for justice.” And apparently, this included a freestyle message to President ...
  6 days ago

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