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	<title>Robert Amsterdam</title>
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		<title>Energy Blast – Feb 22, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A trader at TNK-BP says that Russia will soon have so much spare export pipeline capacity that it will be able to switch a fifth of its output between customers in Asia and Europe to take advantage of the best prices. The company is planning to invest 5 billion rubles into modernising its Saratov Oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business – Feb 22, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What will come of Vladimir Putin’s suggestion to tax ‘prestigious consumption’?  The Prime Minister’s campaign pledges look set to raise government spending by $161 billion through to 2018.  Yandex has signed a deal with Twitter which will grant it access to all publicly posted tweets and make them available to appear in the search engine’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb 22, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Early voting begins in Nenets; For Honest Elections planning post-election-day rally as Nashi plans to patrol Moscow; Left Front plan weekend flash mobs; unregistered deputies in Stavropol on hunger strike; Russia supports Red Cross call for daily ceasefire; Novaya Gazeta cannot pay employees.  Buddhism, pelicans. Early voting has begun in the Nenets region, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast – Feb 21, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientific studies indicate that the Russian heatwave last summer was made three times more likely due to the effects of climate change.  PGNiG has filed a lawsuit against Gazprom over the price of gas in its long-term supply contract.  As the Russian oil boom reaches its peak, Bloomberg wonders how Vladimir Putin plans to address [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business – Feb 21, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News of a second bailout for Greece caused the ruble to weaken for a fourth day in a row.  The Russian Finance Ministry is scrapping plans to collect tax on corporate Eurobonds.  The U.S. Commercial Service has indicated rising interest in certain areas of Russian trade, and is planning trade missions to the country in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb 21, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Pro- and anti-government activists fight for protest space; Medvedev meeting with opposition disappoints; Russia will not send envoy to Syria; gay rights activists paint rainbow on United Russia building; state poll predicts Putin win. Pro-government activists won permission to hold rallies on all of Moscow’s major squares on election day, which will effectively bar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putin Reveals Military Spending Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many would believe that a hearty dose of saber-ratting never did an election campaign any harm, particularly in the case of a man who has been accused of seeking to cultivate a neo-sultanate.  In an article published in government daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Prime Minister Putin has unveiled plans for a $770 billion upgrade of the military, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertamsterdam.com/2012/02/putin-reveals-military-spending-plan/</link>
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		<title>Energy Blast – Feb 20, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[US and European officials have &#8216;cautiously&#8217; welcomed a letter from Iran proposing talks about its nuclear program, says the Washington Post.  IAEA inspectors are on their way to Tehran, hoping for a &#8216;constructive&#8217; visit to the regime whose nuclear ambitions have caused international consternation.  Is President Obama naive to hope that sanctions against Iran could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business – Feb 20, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been another raid on the bank of tycoon and Kremlin critic Alexander Lebedev, just days after he nominated anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny for the board of airline Aeroflot, in which he owns a stake.  Russia is, according to the Moscow Times, mulling a one-time windfall tax on those who made money in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertamsterdam.com/2012/02/today-in-russian-business-feb-20-2012/</link>
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		<title>RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Feb 20, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Anti-Putin vehicular protest in Moscow; toy protestors defiant; pro-Putin rallies mushroom; Left Front deputy plans to sue police for alleged assault; Nashi&#8217;s March 5 rally permit granted fraudulently, says Udaltsov. Medvedev aide prefers Kudrin to his current employer as Premier; Putin unveils major re-armament drive on the basis of international security concerns; Latvia says [...]]]></description>
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