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- April 9, 2008
- Afghanistan Country Facts
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- March 7, 2008
- Statistics and Damn Lies
Robert Coalson (RFE/RL) has just published a superb summary of some of the brazen election abuses during last December's Duma elections in Russia. It would be funny if it were not so sad.
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- March 4, 2008
- Dima's recruitment
This hilarious YouTube satire video by the Perm KVN group gives a bit of background on the recent Russian election, and how Medevedev was recruited for his role. The dubbing is superbly done. (All in Russian)...
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- March 1, 2008
- Medvedev Emerges from His Den
In the 2002 film Oligarch, by Russian director Pavel Lungin, the main character predicts his own downfall, saying, "Russia is a bear. You think you are playing with it and it devours you."
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- February 29, 2008
- Hillary-ous
Hilary Clinton stumbles over the name of the next president of Russia, and a Ukrainian TV host offers a pronunciation lesson.
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- February 27, 2008
- Dima Talks
On February 18, Dmitry Medvedev gave an extended interview with Itogi magazine. Here are some of the highlights,
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- February 6, 2008
- We're Just Crazy about Dima
So what exactly do we know about Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, other than that he is a loyal Putinista going back nearly two decades?
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