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Writing on Salon.com its reporter Mark Benjamin claims that when Republican presidential candidate John McCain calls for Russia ’s ouster from the G-8, he’s not saying something he really believes but merely acting as the corrupt dupe of the East...
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Deutsche Welle reports that in the first five months of this year there have been 72 race-based murders in Russia. That’s three per week, and 22 more than occurred in all of 2007, when such killings averaged a shocking one per week. Just this...
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At a ridiculous charade called the “St. Petersburg Economic Forum” over the weekend Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Economist Jim “Mr. Bric” O’Neill stunned the host nation by laying Russia low.
O’Neill said: ...
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In 1976, a two-term Republican president (Richard Nixon) became extremely unpopular — much more so than the current Republican president George Bush, as seen in the fact that Nixon was forced to resign from office (the only such incident in all...
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What galls is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how we sympathized when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kids with Communists. These people have no shame.
Those are the words of Russian Communist Party member Victor...
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Meet Yuri Sharapov.
He’s the father of Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, the country’s top-ranked contender, and this is him earlier this year in Australia, while his daughter was playing a match at the year’s first Grand Slam event...
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On May 26th, the United Nations did something it very rarely does. It took a stand.
When that happens you know that some country has been caught dead to rights doing something so outrageous that even the cowardly bureaucrats at the UN were compelled...
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Vladimir Putin’s Russia has smashed through the looking glass and is now hurtling into the void of utter neo-Soviet insanity.
The Moscow Times reports that Putin has announced, while paying a state visit to France during which he’s been...
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If my writing on Russia can be said to have a theme, it’s probably “bursting bubbles.” The way I see it, Russian people very often choose to dwell in a world of illusions that simply does not correspond to reality. They choose to...
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Instablogs reported yesterday that the U.S. Army thinks it has a crisis on its hands. 115 soldiers committed suicide last year, up nearly 13% from the year before. With just over 500,000 soliders in the U.S. all-volunteer army, that works out to a...
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