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		<title>Iran’s New Stealth UAV</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December of 2009 the USAF has officially confirmed the existence of a new stealth UAV &#8211; the Lockheed-Martin RQ-170. In the December 4 statement, the USAF said the new aircraft &#8220;aligns with Secretary of Defense Robert M Gates&#8217; request for increased intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support to the combatant commanders and Chief of Staff [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>Ukraine’s Quicksand</title>
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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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>NATO Says It Won’t Attack Russia</title>
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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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>Putin’s Palace</title>
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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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>Baltic Pirates – the Mystery Revealed</title>
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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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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		<title>FBI Rushes to VISA’s Defense</title>
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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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>Goodbuy Lenin?</title>
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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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read in Bloomberg that Kodak is looking at a possible loss in its ITC patent infringement case against Apple and RIM. Kodak says that the low-resolution preview feature found in most digital cameras is infringing on a Kodak patent. The ITC judge said that patent should be invalidated, because the low-res preview technology is [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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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 [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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