In local elections held on October 11 in Russia, the Putin Kremlin plumbed shocking new depths in the neo-Soviet art of vote fraud. Meanwhile, the Obama White House looked the other way.Sergei Mitrokhin — chairman of the Yabloko Party who served in parliament from 1994 to 2003 and on the Moscow City Council from 2005 to 2009, but who was forced off the

Look What I Found:  Classic Toy Advent Calendar Stuffers! There are so many beautiful Advent calendars in the market place that can be used year to year and truly become family heirlooms!  The challenge posed by this lovely tradition is the effort involved in filling all 24 doors or pockets or compartments with perfectly sized trinkets!  But in a burst of genius, Garnet Hill sells not only those heirloom quality Advent calendars, but a set of classic toys to nestle inside!

Herewith is the second part of the interview with John Shirley, the SF/horror author and one of the founders of the cyberpunk SF. Interviewee: John Shirley Interviewer: Kyu Hyun Kim Interview conducted on November 12, 2007. © Kyu Hyun Kim, 2007. All Rights Reserved. Not to be cited without an explicit permission from Kyu Hyun Kim Q: Would you say you were first noticed as an SF writer through the short story collection, Heatseeke r? JS: Yeah, it did get plenty of attention.

Reports: Case opened against Russian activist (Arizona Daily Star) MOSCOW (AP) — A lawyer for Chechnya’s strongman president said Tuesday that a criminal libel case carrying possible prison time has been opened against one of Russia’s most prominent human rights activists, news agencies reported. Russia posts monthly unemployment rate (RosBusinessConsulting) RBC, 28.10.2009, Moscow 13:53:28. Russia’s unemployment rate stood at 7.6 percent in September 2009, the press office of the Russian Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat) reported today.

Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov calls for President Barack Obama to face the reality of Russia’s interests in continued high tensions in the Middle East, and to take a serious stance in talks with Moscow over Iran’s nuclear program. Russia Worries About the Price of Oil, Not a Nuclear Iran The Obama administration’s foreign-policy goodwill has yet to be repaid in kind.

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AFP - SOFIA (AFP) - German utility firm RWE is pulling out of Bulgaria’s nuclear plant project in Belene, in which it was to hold 49 percent, the government in Sofia announced on Wednesday.

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Vladimir Putin, too broke to put on a shirt and buy a ticket to St. Petersburg There’s a fallacy that says that if you make the Russians happy, they’ll work with you . Nothing could be further from the truth. Russia is only going to help us deal with rogue nations if it is in their interest to do so. Anything else, and they’re going to shrug their shoulders and pull out their pockets to show us how broke and helpless they are. The wisdom of abandoning missile defense was wrapped up in the idea that Russia is no threat to anyone.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin’s chief political strategist warned in an article published on Monday that Russia risked collapsing into chaos if officials tried to tinker with the political system by flirting with liberal reforms. Kremlin Deputy Chief of Staff Vladislav Surkov said it was clear Russia was falling behind in many areas of economic development and that the country could not simply continue being a “resource power.” But in answer to calls from opponents for democratic reforms to liberalize the political system built under former President Vladimir Putin, Surkov warned that the resulting instability could rip Russia apart.

“Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.”The news and blogs are buzzing about Obama’s all-male golf games, and National Organization of Women president Terry O’Neill is upset that Obama surrounds himself with men both in and out of the White House:Is this much ado about nothing? O’Neill says no.“Relationships get built in those more informal settings,” O’Neill told ABC News, “and the relationships have a huge impact on the influence an individual has.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has for the first time given an extended half-hour-long interview to a Russian journalist for his brand new documentary about the fall of Berlin Wall. Share and Enjoy:

Currency appreciation in emerging markets has been particularly strong this year both because of external conditions, including high liquidity, a weak US dollar and strong risk appetite, and domestic factors such as strong fundamentals, high potential growth and wider interest rates differentials. With portfolio investments to EM countries also rising, policymakers need to figure out how to avoid losing international competitiveness while also containing asset inflation and the emergence of asset bubbles.

Situatia din Romania pune probleme gigantului Pepsi, care raporteaza rezultate financiare sub estimari. Cel putin asta declara CEO-ul companiei: Given the challenges in our European business and volume pressures in the U.S., we are satisfied with our performance this quarter. We continue to execute our global pricing plans, expand our brand portfolio and drive productivity improvements, helping [...]

Tracing the policy movements of Presidential power-handler Vladislav Surkov is rather like witnessing a three-point turn in a dark alley - as a piece in the Power Vertical points out today.  Whilst transparency is the last thing once can expect from the Kremlin’s shadowy ideologue, his moves of late are dizzying analysts.  Brian Whitmore identifies some of Surkov’s recent twists - from the motives for his alleged involvement in the Duma walkout - to the matter of his oscillating stance on liberalizing political structures to aid economic development.

Exclusive Banksy Exhibition, UK – Original Stencil Art Sold- Sneak Look October 2009… I was a lucky lad on Monday (big shout to James W for sorting it!) and got the chance to go to a private Banksy exhibition and sale in London at a members-only club deeeeeeeep in the ground. We weren’t allowed to take photos so apologies for the poor quality of the pics, but it ain’t easy to be subtle with a bloody huge camera phone so I did my best to shoot what I could! It was great to see the art in the flesh instead of just prints, and there were a couple there I’ve never seen pics of before so that was pretty cool.

TODAY : Putin protest achieves results; Medvedev on election fraud; academic publishing rules to come into force; CIS in a mess; court case brought against human rights activist Orlov; AIDS epidemic, Stalin PR, and a bizarre gift for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unpaid Russian workers from bankrupt KD Avia staged a protest in Kaliningrad to coincide with a visit by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday, which supposedly stirred Putin to order the region’s governor to pay compensation.

TODAY : Putin protest achieves results; Medvedev on election fraud; academic publishing rules to come into force; CIS in a mess; court case brought against human rights activist Orlov; AIDS epidemic, Stalin PR, and a bizarre gift for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unpaid Russian workers from bankrupt KD Avia staged a protest in Kaliningrad to coincide with a visit by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday, which supposedly stirred Putin to order the region’s governor to pay compensation. Pr

TODAY : Putin protest achieves results; Medvedev on election fraud; academic publishing rules to come into force; CIS in a mess; court case brought against human rights activist Orlov; AIDS epidemic, Stalin PR, and a bizarre gift for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unpaid Russian workers from bankrupt KD Avia staged a protest in Kaliningrad to coincide with a visit by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday, which supposedly stirred Putin to order the region’s governor to pay compensation.

TODAY : Putin protest achieves results; Medvedev on election fraud; academic publishing rules to come into force; CIS in a mess; court case brought against human rights activist Orlov; AIDS epidemic, Stalin PR, and a bizarre gift for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unpaid Russian workers from bankrupt KD Avia staged a protest in Kaliningrad to coincide with a visit by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday, which supposedly stirred Putin to order the region’s governor to pay compensation. Pr

By B.RAMANSee alsowww.southasiaanalysis.orgIn my article of October 15,2009, titled “Chinese Media Revert to Pre-Deng Rhetoric on India” I had stated as follows: “The more hawkish line adopted by the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the party media indicate that the hawks in the PLA and the party have started influencing the policy towards India. “2.

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