Posts Tagged ‘ Russia ’

One question that has yet to be answered, where will we get the electricity to power those electric cars? Bush’s 5 Smartest and Dumbest economic moves Apparently the stimulus package was a flop. What a shocker! The return of old-fashioned paternalism King Dollar is making a comeback Sexual Harassment arbitrage in Russia
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John Derbyshire writes on an issue that has always been a private passion of mine (I have very few that remain private for long): the unnecessary nature of the NATO alliance. A (somewhat) brief highlight: “Nobody can tell me what purpose NATO serves, other than the unnecessary annoying of Russia, the only European nation...
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Uh, It seems like American Airlines didn’t get the memo that the USSR hasn’t existed in 17 years. You also have the choice of flying to many non-existent hot spots such as Yugoslavia and Serbia and Motenegro. Unfortunately, Kosovo does not get recognition from American Airlines. (HT: Freakonomics Blog)
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Putin’s party, United Russia, won 64% of the parliamentary vote, followed by the Communists with 12% and the Social Democrats and A Just Russia with about 7-8% each. Then today, Putin named a first Deputy Prime Minister and Gazprom chairman Dmitri Medvedev as his favorite for the presidential vote in March. Medvedev quickly released...
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin recently had a question-and-answer session (sort of like a state of the union address), where he answered questions from people all over Russia. When asked about Iraq and the US, he said that the United States should set a date to withdraw its forces from Iraq. In response to that, I...
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