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		<title>No Risk Of Fraud With This Credit Card</title>
		<link>http://robertamsterdam.com/2012/05/no-risk-of-fraud-with-this-credit-card/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analysts and protesters alike are currently debating whether the new, less confrontational form of protest seen on Moscow&#8217;s streets through the Occupy Abay and Test Stroll actions is the most effective way of making opposition to the Putin regime known.  Meanwhile, Rospil.info founder Alexei Navalny has concocted an inspired anti-corruption action from outside of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast – May 16, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Reuters, Russia&#8217;s deputy prime minister, Igor Sechin, has voiced his opposition to the sale of a stake in state oil pipeline monopoly Transneft, on the basis that it would make the company&#8217;s debt refinancing complicated.  Gazprom&#8217;s plans to export 150 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe annually may have been jeopardized by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business – May 16, 2012</title>
		<link>http://robertamsterdam.com/2012/05/today-in-russian-business-may-16-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia&#8217;s economy apparently manifested strong growth in the first quarter, at 4.9%, significantly surpassing forecasts.  &#8216;But with the EU as its biggest export customer, Russia may not able to sustain this growth pace in the face of a possible eurozone-wide recession&#8217;, says the FT.   Opposition leader Alexei Navalny has apparently initiated an innovative new venture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 16, 2012</title>
		<link>http://robertamsterdam.com/2012/05/ras-daily-russia-news-blast-may-16-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Occupy Abay camp dispersed; 20 detained; analysts discuss the new direction of the protest movement. Udaltsov released to face trial; new report finds Russia Europe&#8217;s main perpetrator of homophobia; ECHR awards mother in conscript death case. US-Russia diplomacy looking strained; Obama says will not attend Vladivostok APEC summit; new cabinet proposed but no names [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast – May 15, 2012</title>
		<link>http://robertamsterdam.com/2012/05/e15051/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polish gas monopoly PGNiG posted a 70% drop in first-quarter net profits, largely due to the increased costs of importing from Russia.  Russia’s acting Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin proposed that power grid firm MRSK merge with the Federal Grid Company; Renaissance Capital immediately called the suggestion ‘a victory for short-term political considerations over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business – May 15, 2012</title>
		<link>http://robertamsterdam.com/2012/05/b150512/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half of all registered violations of anti-monopoly laws can be blamed on officials, according to the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service.  Capital flight levels for April are estimated at $8 billion &#8211; ‘much more severe than we expected’.  Russia ran a budget surplus in April, and may end up running a surplus for the entire year, says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 15, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Soyuz spaceship finally blasts off; Chistiye Prudy camp still intact; eco camp in Tsagovsky forest cleared; Russian officials lash out at West on rights; A Just Russia expels pro-Medvedev members; Shuvalov seeking power in new cabinet; Obama and Putin deny snubbing each other; Yukos employee’s property released; preservationists victory in Moscow. The Soyuz spaceship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Word Up! Moscow’s Writers Rally</title>
		<link>http://robertamsterdam.com/2012/05/word-up-moscows-writers-lead-protest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proving the adaptability of the protest movement, yesterday saw a more genteel incarnation of anti-Putin action take place in Moscow.  It has been noted that since the tumult of May 6, protestors have had to diversify their ways of making their opposition to the President known if they wish to avoid an increasingly defensive police [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast – May 14, 2012</title>
		<link>http://robertamsterdam.com/2012/05/energy-blast-may-14-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 09:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters reports that an exiled Iranian opposition group have claimed that the state has around 60 scientists and engineers involved in a &#8216;concerted and expanding program&#8217; to develop nuclear weapons.  Ukraine’s state-owned energy company Naftogaz Ukrainy has signed a framework accord with German utility RWE for natural-gas imports as the country seeks to reduce dependence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business – May 14, 2012</title>
		<link>http://robertamsterdam.com/2012/05/today-in-russian-business-may-14-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 08:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acting Health Minister Tatyana Golikova is tipped to become the new finance minister, Bloomberg reports.  It has been reported that Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin could take defense tenders under personal control in a measure to facilitate the signing of state contracts.  Russia is currently testing an Italian Centauro tank.  Vladimir Putin has urged firms [...]]]></description>
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