csmonitor.com - 11/18/2008
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An amendment extending the president's term is set to pass in the Duma this week.
bloomberg.com - 11/11/2008
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bloomberg.com —
Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. ,
the world's biggest carmaker, opened a $300 million factory...
in Russia as it looks to compensate for slumping sales in western Europe and North America. The plant in the Shushary district on the outskirts ...
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GM Opens $300 Million Russian Plant to Boost Sales ...
online.wsj.com - 11/18/2008
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online.wsj.com —
Russia needed only a few days this August
to drive Georgia's army into retreat. In the aftermath,...
Europe has held out only a bit longer than Tbilisi's troops. EU leaders on Friday said they were resuming talks with Moscow toward an ...
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Russia Out of Rehab
bloomberg.com - 11/24/2008
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bloomberg.com —
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Russia denied its troops
fired on a motorcade carrying Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili...
and his Polish counterpart near the breakaway region of South Ossetia. “There was no shooting from our positions or from the position ...
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Russia Denies Shooting at Saakashvili Near South Ossetia ...
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Behold The Bear
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Power is being consolidated in Russia, with the presidential
term being extended from
four years to six. And perhaps, all of this is just in time for
Vladimir Putin to make his return as president of Russia--with the
presidency regaining the powers it had under Putin, of course (much
of those powers now reside with the prime minister who--guess
what!--is Putin). ...
Behold The Bear
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
Power is being consolidated in Russia, with the presidential term being extended from four years to six . And perhaps, all of this is just in time for Vladimir Putin to make his return as president of Russia--with the presidency regaining the powers it had under Putin, of course (much of those powers now reside with the prime minister who--guess what!--is Putin). You know, now would be a great time to have a Secretary of State who commands respect because of a command of substance, instead of a Secretary of State who is cooed over merely because of a command of starpower. ...
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