foreignpolicy.com - 3/1/2009
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or the Western world, 1929 marked the start of the Great Depression. For the Soviet Union, it was a year that Joseph Stalin called the Great Break the ending of a short spell of semiprivate economic policy and the beginning of the deadly period of forced collectivization and industrialization. ...
foxnews.com - 3/4/2009
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foxnews.com —
Wednesday, March 04, 2009 MOSCOW If you're inclined
to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind...
if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and ...
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Russian Scholar Says U.S. Will Collapse Next Year - ...
conservativepunk.com - 3/4/2009
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The Future of Russia:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
Economist Moscow correspondent Arkady Ostrovsky has an interesting article on the future of Russia in the wake of the economic crisis. ...
Bailout Culture Threatens Freedom
Pajamas Media —
... has well prepared him for the current economic crisis. Obama has no intention of letting market forces solve the current problem. Such thoughts are totally alien to his political socialization. Forget the mantra about not wanting to expand government. Obama can no more resist advocating the expansion of government than Milton Friedman could resist advocating its reduction. And like Vladimir Putin , who offered the Russian people a way out of the chaos of both democracy and markets through a new social contract, Obama also offers most of us a way out of the current economic ...
New Signs from Russia
democracyarsenal.org —
... Or they may be due to the Russian government's concern that it will not be able to handle the shock of the economic crisis-especially considering the drop in oil prices and its impact on Russia. As Arkady Ostrovsky writes in the current issue of Foreign Policy: ...
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