news.bbc.co.uk - 12/27/2008
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Screenshot of Name of Russia website on 23 December
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
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 ...
en.rian.ru - 12/30/2008
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en.rian.ru —
MOSCOW, December 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is
planning to set a world record by conducting a...
total of 39 space launches in 2009 despite the current global financial crisis, the head of the Russian Space Agency said on Monday. "We have scheduled a ...
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RIA Novosti - Russia - Russia to set world record with ...
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The greatest Russian
Betsy's Page —
... to pick the Name of Russia, the greatest hero of Russia. As of now, the standings are: Aleksandr Nevsky Petr Stolypin Josef Stalin Aleksandr Pushkin Vladimir Lenin Aleksandr Suvorov Dmitry Mendeleev Petr I Fedor Dostoevsky Ivan IV Catherine II Aleksandr II It says something about current Russian opinion that Stalin and Lenin are both in the top five. As the BBC details , this is part of a larger trend encouraged by Putin to resurrect Stalin. Perhaps, Aleksandr Nevsky whose story is familiar to many Russians through the famous 1938 Eisenstein film is popular due to his success ...
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¡No Pasarán! —
Everything old is new again: The former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin may have killed millions of his own people but this weekend he could be chosen by Russians as their greatest-ever countryman.Among the revisionisms discussed: "Stalin made Russia a superpower and was one of the founders of the coalition against Hitler in World War II," says Sergei Malinkovich, leader of the St Petersburg Communist Party.Founded the coalition via an alliance? Tricky guy that ...
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