online.wsj.com - 12/29/2008
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ANDREW OSBORN MOSCOW -- For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very ...
online.wsj.com - 12/29/2008
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online.wsj.com —
ANDREW OSBORN MOSCOW -- For a decade, Russian
academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will...
fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the ...
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As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor ...
ft.com - 12/27/2008
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ft.com —
Russia is bracing for further unrest as the
rouble on Friday slid to a new low against...
the euro after a succession of moves to devalue its currency. A cut on Friday extended six weeks of devaluations by Russia’s central bank designed to offset the ...
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FT.com / Europe - Russia braced for unrest
news.bbc.co.uk - 12/27/2008
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The reports of our 'disintegration' have been greatly exaggerated
Political Animal —
THE REPORTS OF OUR 'DISINTEGRATION' HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED.... The Wall Street Journal has an interesting front-page item this morning, not the popularity in Russia of a scholar predicting the collapse of the United States. For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media. In recent weeks, ...
The Divided States of America
Newshoggers.com —
... by Jay McDonough Igor Panarin is a Russian political scientist who's been predicting
for over a decade the U.S. will collapse and break apart in 2010. And,
for whatever reason - envy, revenge, boredom - he's found an eager
audience in the Russian state media. I wrote a post about his predictions in November and the Wall Street Journal had a profile on Panarin this week. Prof.
Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he
is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats.
He is ...
Nothing Secedes Like Secession
Opinionator —
... gas supply. Texas does consume a goodly portion of its own oil output, about 75% of what it produces. But, it only consumes half of its own natural gas production. For secessionists, these numbers look good. Macdonald concedes that his analysis may be ahead of the curve: “Some of my readers will find this all very premature. I believe the late December article in the Wall Street Journal, featuring a Russian analyst’s forecast of a US breakup, was also met with a maximum smirk. See: In Moscow, Igor Panarin’s Forecasts Are All the Rage; America ‘Disintegrates’ in 2010 . Fair ...
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