nytimes.com - 29 days ago
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From left, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia, President Hu Jintao of China and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India at the first BRIC summit in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
washingtontimes.com - 10/22/2009
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Bill Gertz INSIDE THE RING START 'cheating' Republicans
in the Senate are gearing up to battle the
Obama administration over the high-priority plan to finish a new arms-control treaty with Russia before the end of the year. Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona ...
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Russia violating treaty, developing missile
rferl.org - 10/23/2009
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In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL's Russia Service,
former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized the pro-Kremlin United
Russia party, which he blamed for fraud in regional elections earlier this month. Widespread allegations of serious ...
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Interview: Gorbachev Criticizes Russia's Ruling United ...
notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com - 10/24/2009
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Kathleen Parker Julian Delasantellis Joe Klein "30 Republican
members of the U.S. Senate have been getting phone
calls lately from people asking, "Why do you support rape?" - Kathleen Parker "Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on ...
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... medium of exchange. If adopted, such a plan would accelerate the dollar's precipitous fall in value and further erode American clout in international economic affairs. One such discussion reportedly took place this summer at a summit meeting of the BRIC countries. Just a concept a year ago, when the very idea of BRIC was concocted by the chief economist at Goldman Sachs, the BRIC consortium became a flesh-and-blood reality this June when the leaders of the four countries held an inaugural meeting in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The very fact that Brazil, Russia, India, and ...
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... new medium of exchange. If adopted, such a plan would accelerate the dollar’s precipitous fall in value and further erode American clout in international economic affairs. One such discussion reportedly took place this summer at a summit meeting of the BRIC countries. Just a concept a year ago, when the very idea of BRIC was concocted by the chief economist at Goldman Sachs, the BRIC consortium became a flesh-and-blood reality this June when the leaders of the four countries held an inaugural meeting in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The very fact that Brazil, Russia, India, and ...
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