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	<description>Recording the rise (and hopefully fall) of the Neo-Soviet Union</description>
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		<title>November 27, 2009 &#8212; Contents</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/november-27-2009-contents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27 CONTENTS
(1)  EDITORIAL:   Getting Russia Right
(2)  EDITORIAL:  Russia and its Future
(3)  Kozlovsky on Russia&#8217;s Failed Democracy
(4)  China turns off the Russian Spigot
(5)  OPEN THREAD
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  Getting Russia Right</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/editorial-getting-russia-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cold war II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stalin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aleh Tsyvinsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergei Guriev]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
Getting Russia Right
Russia&#8217;s best weapon against the West continues to be the West itself.  Our inability to get Russia right, inexcusable when we have so much more information about the country now than in Soviet days, is Vladimir Putin&#8217;s only hope to recreate a new USSR in Russia.
But there are signs that, at long last, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18692&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  Russia and its Future</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/editorial-russia-and-its-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
Russia and its Future
The chart above is translated from the Russian website Rumetrika (Russian language link) and shows the source of information relied upon by Russian young people aged 16-26.  Horrifyingly, the graphic shows that the older a Russian gets, the less he relies upon the Internet and the more he relies upon TV.  In the oldest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18684&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kozlovsky on Russia&#8217;s Failed Democracy</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/kozlovsky-on-russias-failed-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oborona leader Oleg Kozlovsky, writing in a new volume from a German publisher entitled 20 Years Ago, 20 Years Ahead: Young Liberal Ideas:
On November 4th 2008, the world watched Barack Obama win the US presidential elections. The first black person to rule the planet’s most powerful country, he promised to change those policies of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18689&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China turns off its Russian Spigot</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/china-turns-off-its-russian-spigot/</link>
		<comments>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/china-turns-off-its-russian-spigot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paul goble]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
So much for the Russia-China alliance!  
The Irtysh river flows out of the mountains of Mongolia down through the northwest corner of China, through Kazakhstan and then down into Russia towards its basins in the Actic. The major Russian city of Omsk stands on its banks. Paul Goble reports that Russia&#8217;s beloved ally China is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18714&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OPEN THREAD</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/open-thread-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source:  The Moscow Times.
Jibber jabber.
Posted in russia Tagged: parkour, russia      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18698&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>November 26, 2009 &#8212; Contents</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/november-26-2009-contents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 9 CONTENTS
(1)  EDITORIAL:  Russia on the Verge of Religious War
(2)  EDITORIAL:  Russia on the Verge of Energy War
(3)  Journalists Flee Putin&#8217;s Russia in Droves
(4)  The True Horror of Russian Corruption Revealed
(5)  Russia at Rock Bottom
NOTE:  Kim Zigfeld&#8217;s latest column on the Pajamas Media megablog addresses the horrifying murder of Sergei Magnitsky while interned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18668&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  Russia on the Verge of Religious War</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/editorial-russia-on-the-verge-of-religious-war/</link>
		<comments>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/editorial-russia-on-the-verge-of-religious-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniil Sysoyev]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
Russia on the Verge of Religious War
From his earliest days in the Moscow Kremlin, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin&#8217;s chief claim to fame has been that he brought peace to Russia&#8217;s relations with Chechnya and its growing Muslim population (it&#8217;s predicted that within the next century Russia will become a majority-Muslim nation).
That absurd propagandistic lie got [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18670&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  Russia on the Verge of a New Energy War</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/editorial-russia-on-the-verge-of-a-new-energy-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ukraine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weaponizing energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
Russia on the Verge of a New Energy War
Once again, Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Russia has proved itself wholly unable to carry on productive, friendly relations with its nearest neighbors.
Last week, in response to libelous, provocative unilateral Russian threats to shut down gas supplies in the event of payment default or &#8220;theft&#8221; of gas,  Ukraine announced that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18674&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journalists Flee Putin&#8217;s Russia in Droves</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/journalists-flee-putins-russia-in-droves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hero journalist Grigory Pasko, writing on Robert Amsterdam&#8217;s blog:
A well-known Russian journalist, head of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations  Oleg Panfilov in early November moved for permanent residency from Moscow to Tbilisi. In a conversation with journalists he explained that his decision was based on the fact that in Russia unknowns were constantly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18662&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The True Horror of Pandemic Russian Corruption</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/the-true-horror-of-pandemic-russian-corruption/</link>
		<comments>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/the-true-horror-of-pandemic-russian-corruption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Especially for those Russophile jackasses who claim Transparency International&#8217;s methodology is somehow unreliable, Jason Bush, writing for Reuters, provides independent verification of their results:
Everyone knows that Russia is corrupt, but did you know just how corrupt? The short answer is: more than any other country. That, at least, is the conclusion of a survey just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18678&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russia at Rock Bottom</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/russia-at-rock-bottom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian writer and television host Victor Erofeyev, writing in the New York Times:
Once again, Russia has found itself at a crossroads. The reason may not seem all that significant in itself: After the recent restoration of the gaudy Kurskaya station on the Moscow Metro, there appeared for the first time in half a century, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18680&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>November 23, 2009 &#8212; Contents</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/november-23-2009-contents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONDAY NOVEMBER 23 CONTENTS
(1)  EDITORIAL:  A New Low in Russian Barbarism
(2)  EDITORIAL:  Russia Sinks lower into the Mire of Failure
(3)  Putin seeks to &#8220;Reunify&#8221; Georgia
(4)  Putin + Medvedev = Asphyxiation for Russia
(5)  OPEN THREAD
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  A New Low in Russian Barbarism</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/editorial-a-new-low-in-russian-barbarism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
A New Low in Russian Barbarism
We here at La Russophobe spend a good deal of time gaping slack-jawed in horror at the latest example of Russian barbarism.  But now and then, even we are surprised by the depths to which this misbegotten mire of a country can sink.  For instance, the New York Times reports:
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18638&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  Russia Sinks Lower into the Mire of Failure</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/editorial-russia-sinks-lower-into-the-mire-of-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
Russia Sinks Lower into the Mire of Failure
An LR editorial just days ago pointed to some more spectacular failure by Russian athletes in chess, boxing, ice hockey and tennis.  But that was just a zakuska for the main dish served up last week by the Russian national soccer team as it went down to utterly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18634&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putin wants to &#8220;Reunify&#8221; Georgia</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/putin-wants-to-reunify-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Goble reports:
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who has often described the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the greatest tragedy” of the 20th century, has now said that the “reunification” of Georgia has “already been decided,” a suggestion some of his listeners believe was a call for restoring Moscow’s control over Georgia and even the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18643&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putin + Medvedev = Asphyxiation for Russia</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/putin-medvedev-asphyxiation-for-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Goble reports:
Ongoing debates about the modernization of Russia have attracted attention to the unfortunate reality that “all the institutional innovations of the last decade are leading to the degradation of the state as a creative subject and to its conversion into a system of life support for a narrow circle of people,” according to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18640&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OPEN THREAD</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/open-thread-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Feel free to carry on any conversation you like in this thread. As perhaps a conversation starter, the above rather mysterious cartoon from Sergei Yelkin is offered. A commenter asks him: &#8220;Are you representing a split personality?&#8221; Yelkin answers: &#8220;No, a kindred spirit.&#8221; Is this image &#8220;too Russian&#8221; for a mere mortal to understand, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18645&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>November 20, 2009 &#8212; Contents</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/november-20-2009-contents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20 CONTENTS
(1)  EDITORIAL:  More Blood on Putin&#8217;s Hands!
(2)  EDITORIAL:  31
(3)  EDITORIAL:  Kim &#38; Dima Sittin&#8217; in a Tree!
(4)  Medvedev the Comedian
(5)  Medvedev the Sucker
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  More Blood on Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Hands!</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/editorial-more-blood-on-vladimir-putins-hands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
More Blood on Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Hands!
The river of opposition blood continues to flow freely in the Russia ruled over by proud KGB spy Vladimir Putin.  On Wednesday, Sergei Magnitsky perished in the Kremlin&#8217;s neo-Soviet gulag and the day before Ivan Khutorskoy was shot down on the Moscow streets outside the prison where Magnitsky breathed his last.

The 37-year-old Magnitsky (pictured, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18610&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL: 31</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/editorial-31/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
31
31.
That&#8217;s the number of countries on this planet, out of 180 surveyed by Transparency International, which just published its most recent results, that are more corrupt than Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Russia.
31.
It&#8217;s a truly staggering number.  It means that 83% of the world&#8217;s nations are less corrupt than Putin&#8217;s Russia.  It means that Russia, which makes pretensions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18607&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDITORIAL:  Kim &amp; Dima Sittin&#8217; in a Tree!</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/editorial-kim-dima-sittin-in-a-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>larussophobe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORIAL
Kim &#38; Dima Sittin&#8217; in a Tree!
It probably does not surprise you to learn that blogger Dima Medvedev, whose other job is &#8220;president&#8221; of Russia, has a Facebook page:

But it may surprise you to learn who his friends are.  He&#8217;s got nearly 2,000 of them (granted, a relatively small number for a country with perhaps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18602&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medvedev the Comedian</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/medvedev-the-comedian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Ryzhkov, writing in the Moscow Times:
President Dmitry Medvedev’s second state-of-the-nation address was tragicomic. The much-anticipated “plan for modernizing Russia” turned out to be a haphazard mix of utopianism and superficiality. His address lacked a sober, honest diagnosis of the serious maladies that are crippling the country. In fact, the president took the exact opposite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18617&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medvedev the Sucker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lilia Shevtsova, senior associate at the Carnegie Moscow Center and chair of the Davos Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Russia, writing in the Moscow Times, says that Dima Medvedev has been put in place by the Putin regime as the sucker standard bearer for reform; he&#8217;ll then be submarined, reform condemned as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18614&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>November 18, 2009 &#8212; Contents</title>
		<link>http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/november-18-2009-contents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18 CONTENTS
(1)  EDITORIAL:  Russia is a Nation of Barbarians
(2)  EDITORIAL:  On Russian Ignorance and Hypocrisy
(3)  EDITORIAL:  The Russian Economy, Enslaved
(4)  Babitsky on NTV
(5)  Subnational Authoritarianism in Russia
NOTE:  A German think tank has published a paper  by Russian scholars on the political degeneration of Russia&#8217;s regional governments.  It begins with a discussion entitled &#8220;Subnational [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larussophobe.wordpress.com&blog=848036&post=18574&subd=larussophobe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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