January 26, 2009 — Contents

MONDAY JANUARY 26  CONTENTS

(1)  Another Original Translation:  YeZhe on the Gas War

(2)  EDITORIAL:  Sberbank (and everything else) in Freefall

(3)  The Missiles of January

(4) Putin and Chavez are like Peas and Carrots

(5)  More Defiance from Novaya Gazeta

NOTE:  It should be brutally difficult for anyone who cares about Russia’s future to even scan through today’s table of contents. From Venezuela to Iran to Ukraine, Russia is exposed as a malignant foriegn policy actor soon to face direct confrontation with every civilized nation on the planet. Domestically, it is exposed as an economy in freefall, resorting to barbaric political murder to maintain itself. It is a ghastly landscape indeed.