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		<title>November 11, 2009 — Contents</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11 CONTENTS
(1)  EDITORIAL:   The Fall of Yandex
(2)  EDITORIAL:  Putin&#8217;s Russia Fails Again
(3)  Narcotics and the Russian Ostrich
(4)  Russia Races Backwards
(5)  Russia cures Swine Flu!
(6)  Oleg Kozlovsky&#8217;s Wedding Album
NOTE:  Oleg Kozlovsky reports that leading human rights activists Lev Ponomaryov and Lyudmila Alexeeva are being evicted by the Russian government from their offices in yet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18486&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  The Fall of Yandex</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[neo-soviet crackdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
The Fall of Yandex
We&#8217;ve repeatedly exposed the absurd neo-Soviet lie that Russia has a viable Internet society.  In fact, virtually nobody in Russia has the means to access the Internet, and those who manage to get there find only a ravaged wasteland of neo-Soviet terror and repression. But the Kremlin is still not satisfied, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18462&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  Putin’s Russia Fails, and then it Fails some More</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
Putin&#8217;s Russia Fails, and then it Fails some More
If you had to name three sports where Russia is supposed to reign supreme, they would be tennis, ice hockey and chess.  Yet the Russia governed by Vladimir Putin has suffered stunning, humiliating defeats in all three areas recently.  In this way, we see sports as being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18458&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Narcotics and the Russian Ostrich</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[drug addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open Democracy reports:
President Medvedev is so alarmed by Russia&#8217;s spiralling drug problem that he recently called it ‘a threat to Russia&#8217;s national security&#8217;. For the head of state to adopt the language of the defence of the realm in this context, rather than social protection, may seem odd. But the words were chosen carefully. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18460&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russia races Backwards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas S. Axworthy, the chair for the study of democracy at Queen&#8217;s University in Canada, writing in the country&#8217;s Finanicial Post:
Twenty years ago [last Monday], one of the twentieth century&#8217;s most glorious events unfolded to an astonished world &#8212; the Berlin Wall came down on Nov. 9, 1989. The holes punched in that wall also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18474&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russia has cure for Swine Flu!</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/russia-has-cure-for-swine-flu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next time you are wondering how Russia can have such a horrifyingly high mortality rate, despite being able to launch a rocket into space, that it does not rank in the top 125 nations of the world for adult lifespan and loses up to 1 million people from its population every year, just reflect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18471&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oleg Kozlovsky’s Wedding Photos</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/oleg-kozlovskys-wedding-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That Oleg Kozlovsky is one cool dude, and he has married a fabulous babe. Some postcards from his wedding album. Chew on these, Mr. Putin:  Jail him illegally as many times as you like, he just goes on.

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		<title>November 9, 2009 — Contents</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/november-9-2009-contents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONDAY NOVEMBER 9 CONTENTS
(1)  EDITORIAL:  Obama teaches Russia a Lesson
(2)  EDITORIAL:  McFaul Speaks?
(3)  Russian Nazis on the Warpath
(4)  Not since the Time of Stalin
(5)  Petulant Putin, Pouting
NOTE:  Kim Zigfeld&#8217;s latest installment of her Russia column on the mighty Pajamas Media megablog deals with Russia&#8217;s attack on Poland in September with nuclear missiles.  Didn&#8217;t hear about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18424&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  Obama Teaches Russia a Lesson</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/editorial-obama-teaches-russia-a-lesson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cold war II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
Obama Teaches Russia a Lesson
Last Tuesday must have been rather disturbing for the denizens of the Russian Kremlin.
American voters helped the Republican Party adminster a &#8220;humiliating&#8221; beat-down of the Democrats in gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, both states Barack Obama easily carried last year in his presidential bid.  The humiliation for Obama was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18408&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  McFaul Speaks?</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/editorial-mcfaul-speaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
McFaul Speaks?
Here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see every day, a classic bit of Internet adventure.  Someone claiming to be Michael McFaul, Barack Obama&#8217;s chief Russia advisor, has posted two comments to Oleg Kozlovsky&#8217;s Facebook page under a post which Oleg also blogged in which he discussed a report quoting McFaul in the Kommersant newspaper; Kommersant reported that McFaul had said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18411&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Nazis on the Warpath</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/russian-nazis-on-the-warpath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nationalism]]></category>
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Paul Goble reports:
Those taking part in the Russian March in Moscow yesterday – an officially authorized demonstration which organizers claimed attracted 7,000 people but which observers said included only about 700 – were given written instructions on how to acquire guns so that they would be able to defend what nationalist speakers called “the Russian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18417&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not since the Time of Stalin</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/not-since-the-time-of-stalin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[murders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An editorial in the Washington Post:
MURDERS OF human rights activists in Russia have been happening with such frequency that some will be tempted to shrug at the brutal slaying on Sunday of Maksharip Aushev, who campaigned against abuses by the security forces in the Caucasian republic of Ingushetia. Mr. Maksharip was driving on a major [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18422&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Petulant Putin, Pouting</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/petulant-putin-pouting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Streetwise Professor rips Mr. Putin a new one:
GM has finally come to its senses and rejected the sale of Opel to Canadian autoparts maker Magna–and its Russian partner (initially Sberbank, but eventually Avtogaz).  GM initially agreed to the deal when faced with an existential crisis in the early part of this year; its “choice” of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18419&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>November 6, 2009 — Contents</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6 CONTENTS
(1)  An Open Letter to George Soros
(2)  EDITORIAL:  Gleb Pavlovsky, Raving Lunatic
(3)  EDITORIAL:  Russia&#8217;s New Iron Curtain
(4)  EDITORIAL:  Flatulent Russia
(5)  Putin Checkmates Obama on Iran
NOTE:  Oleg Kozlovsly blogs about his latest illegal arrest as the neo-Soviet crackdown on civil society continues in Putin&#8217;s Russia.
NOTE:  Ariel Cohen has an extensive analysis of the Russian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18380&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to George Soros</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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George Soros
Open Society Institute
400 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
Dear Mr. Soros,
It’s no fun, of course, for a writer to get rejected. I’ve been rejected plenty of times by the blogs where I am the Russia columnist, American Thinker and Pajamas Media, and although (most of the time) they were right to do it that doesn’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18389&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  Gleb Pavlovsky, Raving Neo-Soviet Lunatic</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/editorial-gleb-pavlovsky-raving-neo-soviet-lunatic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
Gleb Pavlovsky, Raving Neo-Soviet Lunatic
Try to find out what the &#8220;Russia Institute&#8221; is, we dare you.
The Moscow Times, publishing an op-ed piece by the &#8220;head&#8221; of the Russia Institute, one Gleb Pavlovsky (pictured, left; scary, huh?), sure doesn&#8217;t give you any information.
Google it, and you won&#8217;t find out anything more.  You&#8217;ll find Pavlovsky, but you&#8217;ll find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18362&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  Russia’s New Iron Curtain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
Russia&#8217;s New Iron Curtain
Polls appear to illustrate a rise in nationalism in Russia. While only 26 percent of respondents in 1991 said Russia should be for Russians, 54 percent said the same in the recent poll. The two polls also saw a 10 percentage point rise to 47 percent of respondents who said it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18360&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  Flatulent Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
Flatulent Russia
Hear that hissing sound? It&#8217;s Russia. They&#8217;ve sprung a leak.
Russian gas production fell a stunning 17% in the first three quarters of this year, and gas exports plunged even further, a whopping 21%.  Naturally, with sales in freefall, the price and the revenue Russia received from sales of natural gas also dropped through the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18385&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putin checkmates Obama on Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitchell Bard, Executive Director of the nonprofit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) and the director of the Jewish Virtual Library, writing on the History News Network:
President Obama’s decision to abandon the plan to deploy a missile defense system in Europe shocked many analysts in the United States as well as our eastern European allies who were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18366&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>November 4, 2009 — Contents</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/november-4-2009-contents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4 CONTENTS
(1)  EDITORIAL:  The Horror of Neo-Soviet Russia
(2)  EDITORIAL:  Mr. Medvedev and his Shoe
(3)  Latynina on Aushev
(4)  Putin, his Inflation and his Lies
(5)  Moscow vs. Russia
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  The Horror of Neo-Soviet Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
The Horror of Neo-Soviet Russia
Two reports from opposite sides of European Russia last week, one from The Other Russia and one from FinRosForum, depict the true horror of the neo-Soviet state being built by proud KGB spy Vladimir Putin.
Russia watchers well remember the horrifying specter several years ago of a ghoul-like Putin, in full view [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18353&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  Mr. Medvedev and his Shoe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
Mr. Medvedev and his Shoe
Soviet premier Nikita Khruschev found one uniquely Russian use for a shoe, and now it seems Russian &#8220;president&#8221; Dima Medvedev has found another.
To commemorate Russia&#8217;s national holiday to remember victims of Soviet repression, Medvedev wrote on his blog:
Even now we can hear voices saying that these numerous deaths were justified by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18338&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latynina on Aushev</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Killled him but He walks Among us
Yulia Latynina
October 26, 2009
Yezhednevny Zhurnal
Translated from the Russian by The Other Russia
On Sunday, October 25, 2009, in the North Caucasian city of Nalchik, one of the most influential people in the Republic of Ingushetia was killed – Maksharip Aushev; the killers peppered his car with machine guns. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18349&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putin, his Inflation and his Lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immortal Inflation
By Sergei Shelin
October 28, 2009
Gazeta.ru
Translated from the Russian by The Other Russia
If you believe the government statistics, then we have had no inflation since August. It ended. Just as it piled up from January through July, it has stopped in the past few months. Even our enemies at The Wall Street Journal admit it: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18351&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moscow vs. Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Goble reports:
Moscow and Russia’s regions are now on a collision course, one in which the regions, in many cases devastated by the economic crisis, need more resources and authority to cope, are confronted by a central government which is further tightening control over revenues even as it holds regional leaders responsible for solving problems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18358&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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