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		<title>Mr. Chávez&#8217;s Neighborhood</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/mr-chavezs-neighborhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may have all started with the bosom buddy relationship with Vladimir Putin, but Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has expanded his friendship franchise to the world's pariahs, from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Omar al-Bashir to Robert Mugabe, and, even posthumously with...]]></description>
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		<title>Hermitage Defense Team Under Attack following Death Threats</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/hermitage-defense-team-under-attack-following-death-threats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would it be foolish to think that all this William Browder/Hermitage stuff would come to an end with just one murdered lawyer?&#160; Not quite.&#160; This latest story from Catherine Belton in the Financial Times is at once frightening, morally outrageous,...]]></description>
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		<title>How Renaissance Capital Survived while Hermitage Was Stolen</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/how-renaissance-capital-survived-while-hermitage-was-stolen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/how-renaissance-capital-survived-while-hermitage-was-stolen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yulia Latynina's column in the Moscow Times points out that Renaissance was also put through the wringer with the same FSB/Interior Ministry scam that Hermitage was ... but chose to stay quiet in order to stay in business.&#160; Always a...]]></description>
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		<title>The Russia Repetition Syndrome</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-russia-repetition-syndrome/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-russia-repetition-syndrome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say what you will about the Putin-Medvedev diarchy, but there's no doubting the success they have had in keeping the media running circles around their own script.&#160; In fact, reading this CSM editorial (and many others), I get that familiar...]]></description>
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		<title>Practicing Legal Nihilism</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/practicing-legal-nihilism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/practicing-legal-nihilism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Washington Post editorial page:Dmitry Medvedev keeps giving speeches about ending the lawlessness and corruption that have overtaken his country. That would be encouraging -- except that Russians who try to act on the president's words keep turning up...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 24, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-24-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-24-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey's highest court has reversed the decision to have Atomstroyexport build its first nuclear power plant, due to allegations of unfairly high prices issued by the Russian company, and concerns about energy dependency. &#160;Russia will give Belarus a 30-40% discount...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211;  Nov 24, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-24-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-24-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Russia may sell up to $3.5 billion of state assets per year in airports, ports, shipping companies and insurance, under its latest 2010 privatization plan. &#160;Details of specific companies and the fourteen stakes offered for sale have been documented here....]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; Nov 24, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-24-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-24-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Medvedev meets with his human rights council, but there is nothing to report; Putin promises housing to retired military officers including WW2 veterans; media corruption; Amur tigers dying out; Russia's misbehaved 'golden youth'.President Dmitry Medvedev met with the Council...]]></description>
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s China Envy</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/russias-china-envy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/russias-china-envy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vlad Ryzhkov's latest article over in the Moscow Times is worth a read, as it delves into that familiar and beloved topic of the comparative authoritarian models of Russia and China, and the challenged assumption that democracy is good or...]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Radio Free Europe and the Velvet Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/video-radio-free-europe-and-the-velvet-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/video-radio-free-europe-and-the-velvet-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<title>Grigory Pasko: Yuri Luzhkov&#8217;s Water Grab</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/grigory-pasko-yuri-luzhkovs-water-grab/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/grigory-pasko-yuri-luzhkovs-water-grab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Water - the oil and gas of the not-too-distant future What's news is this: «The world community is hoping that Russia will soon become a supplier to the countries of Europe not only of energy inputs, but of fresh...]]></description>
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		<title>Who Helps Russia&#8217;s Corrupt Get their Money Out?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/who-helps-russias-corrupt-get-their-money-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/who-helps-russias-corrupt-get-their-money-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite hearing quite a few nice speeches about the Kremlin's commitment to fighting corruption, 2009 was most definitely a boom year for graft in Russia.Earlier this month Transparency International released its Corruption Perceptions Index report, which had Russia coming in...]]></description>
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		<title>Sergei Magnitsky&#8217;s Final Petition</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/sergei-magnitskys-final-petition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/sergei-magnitskys-final-petition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oleg Silchenko]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hermitage is sending around another press today with regard to the recent death in Russian custody of their lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.&#160; Apparently five days before his death due to untreated illness, the lawyer had filed a complaint denouncing the falsification...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 23, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-23-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-23-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran began five-day, large-scale air defense war games yesterday aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack. &#160;Changes in the permafrost in western Siberia are costing Russian oil companies a reported $1.9 billion every year in damage repair for infrastructure...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211;  Nov 23, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-23-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-23-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Vladimir Putin introduced a cash-for-scrap-cars scheme and mortgage support at Saturday's United Russia congress, as he forecasted a 2009 GDP decline of 8-8.5%, 'which would be Russia's worst result since 1994,' notes the Washington Post. &#160;Deputy Prime Minister...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; Nov 23, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-23-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-23-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Medvedev issues 'dressing down' for United Russia at annual congress, Putin doesn't disagree; funeral held for Sergei Magnitsky, second autopsy request denied; Litvinenko anniversary; Russia's school for tabloid journalists.United Russia held its annual congress in St. Petersburg on Saturday,...]]></description>
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		<title>Grigory Pasko: Journalists Are Fleeing Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/grigory-pasko-journalists-are-fleeing-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. A well-known Russian journalist, head of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations&#160; Oleg Panfilov in early November moved for permanent residency from Moscow to Tbilisi. In a...]]></description>
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		<title>Evgeny Lebedev and the Londongrad Blues</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/evgeny-lebedev-and-the-londongrad-blues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week's lunch with the FT features Peter Aspden sitting down for some sushi and a harmless bit of obsequiousness with Evgeny Lebedev, the son of Alexander Lebedev.&#160; The conversation has some interesting points ... such as his potshots at...]]></description>
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		<title>The Obstacle of Pride</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-obstacle-of-pride/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-obstacle-of-pride/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like Michele Berdy's columns in the Moscow Times.&#160; Who knows how many times inaccurate translations have skewed our understanding of Russia in the mass media:Надувать щёки is not, as the otherwise brilliant Kremlin translators would have it, "to be...]]></description>
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		<title>The Iron (Pipeline) Curtain</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-iron-pipeline-curtain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-iron-pipeline-curtain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Fidler at the Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece running today about the annual winter pipeline politics (though the sensible agreement yesterday in Yalta may diminish a lot of fears).&#160; There are some interesting facts and numbers in...]]></description>
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		<title>Yurgens: A Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is no picnic for Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/yurgens-a-taliban-controlled-afghanistan-is-no-picnic-for-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buried down at the bottom of this blog post attacking Obama's Russia policy (mostly just picking on Joe Biden - it is the National Journal after all), are some interesting quotes from Igor Yurgens - a key advisor to Medvedev...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 20, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-20-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports have emerged following yesterday's meeting between 'comfortable' duo Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Yulia Tymoshenko. &#160;Bloomberg says Putin's announcement that Ukraine would not be penalized for consuming less gas than was contracted was warmly received&#160;by Tymoshenko, who pledged...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211;  Nov 20, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-20-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-20-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PricewaterhouseCoopers has released its latest survey of economic crime, and Russia topped the bill, with results 'well above' the global figures. &#160;On that note, Kuban Commercial Bank has had its license withdrawn for scheming to steal $43.5 million from the...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; Nov 20, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-20-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Praise for moratorium on death penalty overshadowed by Magnitsky's death - authorities blocking autopsy?; Medvedev dismissed Kremlin aide for abuse of office; NATO concerns about war games dismissed by Rogozin; Orthodox priest murdered, road safety.The Constitutional Court's decision to...]]></description>
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		<title>Grigory Pasko: Disturbance Factor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They were shooting...Yesterday. In the forest. In Vladimir Oblast. A shot thundered practically right over my head. Luckily for me and for the duck flushed from the mirror-like marsh, the hunter missed. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на...]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times Magazine Profiles Mikhail Khodorkovsky</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Meier has penned an epic, wide ranging profile of the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in The New York Times Magazine, which captures a sense of the courtroom, the personalities, and the historical context of the affair.&#160; For readers...]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Sergei Magnitsky</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/remembering-sergei-magnitsky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is the text of a letter from the law firm Firestone Duncan to clients and staff regarding the death of Sergei Magnitsky (I apologize for the conflicting spellings of his name).November 18, 2009Dear clients, partners and friends,On the night...]]></description>
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		<title>Hitting Rock Bottom</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/hitting-rock-bottom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The writer Victor Erofeyev has published an opinion article in the New York Times commenting about what motivations Russians to embrace a familiar if ugly past instead of imagining a reformed future.&#160; His expression of support here echoes what he...]]></description>
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		<title>Can the WTO Handle Russia?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/can-the-wto-handle-russia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/can-the-wto-handle-russia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This editorial published in the Financial Times doubts that the rule structures of the World Trade Organization would be able to contain Russia, which they say is likely to be "a permanent delinquent."Russia is being asked to change the habits...]]></description>
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		<title>The Murder of Russian Rule of Law</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-murder-of-russian-rule-of-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-murder-of-russian-rule-of-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From RA's latest dispatch in the Huffington Post on the death by medical blackmail of Sergei Magnitsky:It has become something of a journalistic cliché to take these shocking Kafkaesque legal sagas in Russia and call them "a litmus test" for...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 19, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-19-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia's EU ambassador says his country aims to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 25% through to 2020. Ukraine's President, Viktor Yushchenko, has written an open letter to Dmitry Medvedev, asking him to change the terms of agreement on gas supplies. &#160;The...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211;  Nov 19, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-19-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-19-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 budget has passed a second reading after the Duma 'brushed aside proposals from the opposition'. &#160;Most of the amendments were 'minor', says The Moscow Times, but the new budget has more than halved state support for banks.&#160;Sberbank says...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; Nov 19, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-19-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-19-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: EU-Russia summit 'one of the best we've had'; WTO bid to happen as soon as possible; Prosecutor General investigating lawyer Magnitsky's death; Solidarity says it has evidence against officers; Putin raises eyebrows as sudden new head of Geographical Society;...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; Nov 19, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-19-2009-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-19-2009-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: EU-Russia summit 'one of the best we've had'; WTO bid to happen as soon as possible; Prosecutor General investigating lawyer Magnitsky's death; Solidarity says it has evidence against officers; Putin raises eyebrows as sudden new head of Geographical Society;...]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption and Death in Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/corruption-and-death-in-russia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/corruption-and-death-in-russia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer Treatment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[director]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hermitage lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independent prisoner-rights activist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interior Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamison Firestone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lev Ponomarev;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow Prosecutor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[office spokeswoman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia's For Human Rights Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergei Magnitsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valeriy Borshov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vasily Aleksanyan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yukos Oil Company;]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Voice of America has published an important piece on the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and the practice of medical blackmail in Russian prisons:Magnitsky developed problems with his pancreas and gall bladder as a result of what his American...]]></description>
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		<title>Illusions of Russian Modernization</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/illusions-of-russian-modernization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/illusions-of-russian-modernization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, so, as always Lilia Shevtsova is basically awesome, and her latest piece in the Moscow Times makes quite a lot of sense of the games being playing within the "reset."Meanwhile, the ruling elite have decided to discuss democratic standards...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;They Killed Him&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/they-killed-him/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/they-killed-him/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Philip Pan's coverage of the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky: But Jamison Firestone, the head of Magnitsky's firm and a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, said the authorities had denied Magnitsky treatment for...]]></description>
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		<title>Eric Bergkrauts Ode to Anna Politkovskaya</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/eric-bergkrauts-ode-to-anna-politkovskaya/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/eric-bergkrauts-ode-to-anna-politkovskaya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a new (?) French documentary out about Anna Politkovskaya directed by Eric Bergkraut which is getting some rave reviews.&#160; Here is the website, and below is one video (I couldn't find the trailer)....]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 18, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-18-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-18-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commission of European Communities;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas bills]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[key reforms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slovakia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockholm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In spite of recent measures taken to avoid more EU gas disruptions this winter, and a new Russia-EU partnership set to be discussed in detail at this week's Stockholm summit,&#160;Slovakia's Prime Minister can't see Kiev being able to pay its...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211;  Nov 18, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-18-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-18-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new trade agreement between Russia and the EU could examine whether trade barriers set up in response to the global crisis are damaging economic relations. The two bodies have launched a joint patent program to strengthen Russian intellectual property...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; Nov 18, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-18-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-18-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Medvedev in Stockholm for EU-Russia summit; Transparency International laments Russia's rampant bribery; protesters call for Beketov investigation and release of Limonov; tax claim against British Council thrown out; ultranationalist-antifascist tensions flaring; Iran to replace Russia?Transparency International's decision to up...]]></description>
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		<title>Rogozin vs. Sikorski</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/rogozin-vs-sikorski/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/rogozin-vs-sikorski/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Nevsky Orthodox Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Rogozin;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opposition Movement of the Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Catholic Church;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polish FM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[this Berlin Wall anniversary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back we pointed to the Twitter feed of Russia's Amb. to NATO Dmitry Rogozin.&#160; Today it looks like he has launched a personal assault on Radoslav Sikorski, the Polish MFA (everybody is just so prickly around this Berlin...]]></description>
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		<title>Protest in Support of Khodorkovsky at the Russia National Exhibition in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/protest-in-support-of-khodorkovsky-at-the-russia-national-exhibition-in-chicago/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/protest-in-support-of-khodorkovsky-at-the-russia-national-exhibition-in-chicago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drake Hotel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today we were emailed regarding a small demonstration to be held tomorrow morning in front of the Drake Hotel in Chicago, IL in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, coinciding with the Russian National Exhibition (a business conference looking to drum...]]></description>
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		<title>Vaclav Havel Warns about Russia&#8217;s Democratic Façade</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/vaclav-havel-warns-about-russias-democratic-facade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/vaclav-havel-warns-about-russias-democratic-facade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[totalitarian systems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We could've guessed from the letter he signed earlier this year that the Czech luminary/dissident Vaclav Havel was not done talking about the authoritarian drift in Russia.&#160; The Telegraph reports on his speech before a rally commemorating the anniversary of...]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of an Innocent Lawyer</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-death-of-an-innocent-lawyer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-death-of-an-innocent-lawyer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firestone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innocent lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the day new reports have been published on the death of Sergey Magnitskiy, the imprisoned Russian lawyer who had worked for William Browder and Hermitage Capital Management.&#160; Some interesting quotes have come up so far, like this one:"He was...]]></description>
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		<title>Medvedev&#8217;s Alternative Vision Light as a Feather</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/medvedevs-alternative-vision-light-as-a-feather/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/medvedevs-alternative-vision-light-as-a-feather/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stalin;]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adrian Pabst, an academic from the University of Kent, has a well written if not entirely surprising opinion article in The National arguing that a real separation emerging between the Medvedev and Putin camps - "a growing split within the...]]></description>
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		<title>The Gas Comics: EU Sells Out Human Rights to Turkmenistan</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-gas-comics-eu-sells-out-human-rights-to-turkmenistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-gas-comics-eu-sells-out-human-rights-to-turkmenistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caspian Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commission of European Communities;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy grid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy reliance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Mann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkmenistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unreliable supplier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ You've got to respect Global Witness ... for a watchdog NGO, they bring a lot of creativity and innovation to their cause (see this past campaign for another example).&#160; GW has also done a tremendous job in the past...]]></description>
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		<title>Activist Murdered in Moscow</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/activist-murdered-in-moscow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/activist-murdered-in-moscow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-fascist activist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fellow antifascist campaigner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivan Khutorskoy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mistreated Hermitage lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reuters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanislav Markelov]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Ivan Khutorskoy, an anti-fascist activist, has been murdered by gunfire in Moscow today in what some colleagues are calling a possible retaliation.&#160; According to the Reuters coverage, the murder may have been related to the arrests of individuals in...]]></description>
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		<title>Putizzle in the house</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/putizzle-in-the-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/putizzle-in-the-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Looks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rapper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like we're not done having fun with this one yet.&#160; From the Associated Press:Putin did not technically rap -- but he did deliver his speech clutching a mike to the backdrop of a hip hop groove. He clapped his...]]></description>
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		<title>The Return of Medical Blackmail</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-return-of-medical-blackmail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-return-of-medical-blackmail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brilliant and honourable lawyer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chief prosecutor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a press release being sent around by Hermitage Capital Management with regard to the death last night of Sergei Magnitsky.&#160; The link to the 40-page complaint by Magnitsky to Chief Prosecutor Yuri Chaika detailing the urgent care...]]></description>
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		<title>Video: The Murdered Lawyer</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/video-the-murdered-lawyer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/video-the-murdered-lawyer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not sure how much longer the Browder film will be available online, given that one individual featured in it has died (I have seen it pulled from some sites).&#160; Anyways, if you haven't seen it yet, today is...]]></description>
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		<title>Unlawfully Jailed Hermitage Lawyer Dies in Custody</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/unlawfully-jailed-hermitage-lawyer-dies-in-custody/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/unlawfully-jailed-hermitage-lawyer-dies-in-custody/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is horrible, horrible news, especially considering the circumstances behind the arrest of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer involved in the William Browder and Hermitage Capital affair (this saga of state corruption is best told in a ten minute film released...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 17, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-17-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-17-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia's Energy Minister and the EU Energy Commissioner have signed a memorandum establishing an early warning mechanism to anticipate potential gas cuts and allow time to find solutions to problems before deliveries are physically affected. &#160;But the memorandum may be...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211;  Nov 17, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-17-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-17-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the beginning of the month, Russia's central bank has spent over $5 billion on interventions aimed at slowing the ruble's gain. Oleg Deripaska has dismissed Michael Cherney's RusAl stake claim, saying it 'resembles [...] blackmail'. &#160;Despite the rise of...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; Nov 17, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-17-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-17-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Medvedev speaks in Singapore, elections committee to be formed under the president?; Abkhazia pledges dialing allegiance to Russia; Moscow real estate and low-rise government housing; kiosk theft, Nabokov.Soundbites from Dmitry Medvedev's Singapore appointments: climate change poses a 'catastrophic' threat;...]]></description>
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		<title>Video Game &#8220;Call of Duty&#8221; Pushes Russia&#8217;s Buttons</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/video-game-call-of-duty-pushes-russias-buttons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/video-game-call-of-duty-pushes-russias-buttons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many readers are aware, the Russian government has been on a recent censorship tear, including talk of banning off-color and proudly offensive animated TV imports such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and South Park (oddly, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has...]]></description>
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		<title>Stable Authoritarianism</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/stable-authoritarianism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/stable-authoritarianism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time, La Russophobe forwards us links to what they are publishing.&#160; This posting on subnational authoritarianism in particular is quite interesting.&#160; Writing in the Russian Analytical Digest, Vladimir Gelman argues that the processes of political recentralization of...]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Hip Hop Putin</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/video-hip-hop-putin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/video-hip-hop-putin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what are sure to be the most bizarre and cringe-worthy videos of the week, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin showed up as the featured guest on a popular hip hop TV show in Russia.&#160; According to the AFP, Putin commented...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 16, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-16-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-16-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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 pipeline;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uppsala University in Sweden says the IEA's annual World Energy Outlook 'drastically underplayed&#160;the scale of future oil shortages'. &#160;Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has won Slovenia's approval for the South Stream pipeline, 'undermining European Union efforts to reduce dependency on Russian...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211;  Nov 16, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-16-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-16-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov has announced that Russia has again raised its target for revenue from various state asset sales next year to 100 billion rubles ($3.5 billion), more than 10 times the original target. 'The state will...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; Nov 16, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-16-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-16-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Medvedev meets Obama in Singapore on sidelines of Apec, discusses Iran and START; what happened to Russia's US-Afghan supply route?; more law enforcement officers weighing in on corruption; Putin didn't attend hip-hop party to boost popularity, insists Peskov; Moscow...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 13, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-13-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-13-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Energy Agency increased its forecast for 2010 global oil demand as the pace of economic recovery in Asia and the Middle East quickens, but has apparently cautioned that rising oil prices could jeopardize the green shoots of recovery....]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211; Nov 13, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-13-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-13-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA['The primitive structure of our economy', was one of President Medvedev's keynote complaints in his second annual address, which emphasized the need for technological innovation. The speech was 'disappointing from an investment point of view [...] it was very light...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; Nov 13, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-13-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-13-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Medvedev's state of the nation address warns opposition against using democracy to rock the boat; talks up modernization. Media unconvinced President can match word with deed. Topol-M problem for START replacement talks;&#160; Litvinenko suspect Lugovoi willing to speak to...]]></description>
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		<title>PASKO: I can&#8217;t take any more of the powers&#8217; optimism</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/pasko-i-cant-take-any-more-of-the-powers-optimism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brezhnev;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[going forward]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда.I was listening to our president and recalled Jerzy Lec: "I am so full of optimism that I can't take any more of it." What didn't Dmitry Medvedev promise...]]></description>
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		<title>Does Time, In Fact, Equal Money?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/does-time-in-fact-equal-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/does-time-in-fact-equal-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aleksei Kudrin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Kozak;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever come across something so brilliant you wish you had thought of it yourself? Well that's what Seth Hettena has just put together, via sourcing from Vedomosti: an aggregation of the preferred timepieces worn by high-level Russian officialdom as a...]]></description>
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		<title>Who Got The Power?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/who-got-the-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ambassador]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Donald Jensen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin has been ranked number 3 in the Forbes list of the most powerful people in the world, President Medvedev comes in 43rd, after Deputy Prime Minister, siloviki chieftain and Rosneft chairman Igor Sechin at number 42. (See the...]]></description>
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		<title>Excerpts From State-Of-The-Nation Address</title>
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		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/excerpts-from-state-of-the-nation-address/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medvedev's annual state-of-the-nation address has been hotly anticipated, with talk of electoral reforms surfacing in today's FT, issues of modernization and the promise of responses to his Go Russia! article to be included. For those interested in the bones of...]]></description>
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		<title>Axing Governors</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/axing-governors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Misharin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boris Nemtsov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communist general secretary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[presumably less autonomous model]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nikolai Zobin in today's Moscow Times laments that President Medvedev persistently highlights the level of corruption in Russia, whilst, by all accounts, the problem of graft has increased during his Presidency. (See yesterday's 'corruption blast' for the latest examples).&#160; When...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 12, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-12-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-12-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia and Austria have agreed to conclude talks over the South Stream pipeline as quickly as possible. The deal would, this report says, exclude Ukraine from the supply route, and will, in Putin's words, quoted by the Other Russia, help...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211;  Nov 12, 2009</title>
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		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-12-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ruble hit an 11-month high yesterday, just after warnings against bets that the currency would continue to mount. The government has apparently decided to abandon some of its more ambitious pre-crisis goals for the 2012 economy, admitting that growth...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; Nov 12, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-12-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-12-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Medvedev to give state of the nation address, modernization presumed to be key theme; opposition members laud ousting of Governor Rossel; Moscow Mayor to sue opposition politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky over corruption claims. Lavrov interview on Vesti news, discusses EU,...]]></description>
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		<title>Tracking the shifting power dynamic in the Eurasia landmass</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/tracking-the-shifting-power-dynamic-in-the-eurasia-landmass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/tracking-the-shifting-power-dynamic-in-the-eurasia-landmass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, dissects Russia's foreign policy in the November/December issue of Foreign Affairs in an article entitled, "Russia Reborn." Following is the passage I think resonates the most. I'm going to keep my lead-in...]]></description>
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		<title>Still seeking more info on the double eviction of Moscow human rights groups</title>
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		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/still-seeking-more-info-on-the-double-eviction-of-moscow-human-rights-groups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Goble's post from a few days ago remains the most thorough roundup I've come across so far of the developing situation concerning the eviction of the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Moscow branch of For Human Rights. The LA...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Human Rights Opportunity in Singapore</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/obamas-human-rights-opportunity-in-singapore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/obamas-human-rights-opportunity-in-singapore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reprinted from Robert Amsterdam's latest in the Huffington Post: The effusive praise President Barack Obama has for former Singaporean Prime Minister and now Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew is another gesture that has led many to wonder where the present...]]></description>
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		<title>On Russia&#8217;s &#8220;charm offensive&#8221; toward foreign investors</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/on-russias-charm-offensive-toward-foreign-investors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/on-russias-charm-offensive-toward-foreign-investors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Translated from a Russian stock market report in yesterday's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Analysts from the investment bank Troika Dialog therefore consider the increasing strength of the American economy as a threat to above-average development of the Russian stock markets, which...]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Of The Berlin Myths</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/fall-of-the-berlin-myths/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/fall-of-the-berlin-myths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Foreign Policy's recent special about the fall of the Berlin Wall, a neat little 4-point piece debunking some of the interpretations of why it collapsed: Here's a reality check on the most persistent myths:No. 1: It was Ronald Reagan.In...]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption Blast</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/corruption-blast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today has not been a good day for the respectability of Russia's organizations.&#160; Firstly we have the weekend's&#160; police corruption You Tube video, whose revelations about alleged case fabrications and all manner of other dishonest practices have put quite a...]]></description>
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		<title>Cop Takes Corruption Campaign To Moscow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RFE/RL follows the movements of former police major and new You Tube star Aleksei Dymovsky, whose campaign against corruption in the police forces has caused a storm of controversy.&#160; According to an article by Brian Whitmore, Dymovsky avowed at a...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 11, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-11-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-11-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gazprom insists that 'everything is in place' to ensure that there will be no conflicts over gas supplies to Europe this winter. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet with the Austrian Chancellor Werner today to discuss the situation. In a...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211;  Nov 11, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-11-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-11-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both EBRD and the World Bank have weighed in on Russias economy, with the former criticizing an over-reliance on natural resources and centralization, and the latter advising the implementation of a reasonable budget policy and a new plan to diversify...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; Nov 11, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-11-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-11-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Kremlin admits police failings; criminal cases opened into state corporations' use of funds; Moscow corruption; slow technology progress; Rossel replaced; Kalashnikov a 'hero', says Medvedev.The scandal sparked by Major Alexei Dymovsky's YouTube protest has prompted the Kremlin to admit...]]></description>
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		<title>Mobius: Taking a closer look at Russian markets</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/mobius-taking-a-closer-look-at-russian-markets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/mobius-taking-a-closer-look-at-russian-markets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerging markets guru Mark Mobius shares his (bullish) ideas on Russia in this post. ]]></description>
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		<title>Open letter from Amnesty International to Prime Minister Stephen Harper</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/open-letter-from-amnesty-international-to-prime-minister-stephen-harper/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/open-letter-from-amnesty-international-to-prime-minister-stephen-harper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have just received a copy of an open letter from Amnesty International Canada to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in advance of his upcoming trip to the forthcoming APEC meeting in Singapore, followed by a visit to India. The...]]></description>
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		<title>Russian inroads to Latin America continue&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/russian-inroads-to-latin-america-continue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/russian-inroads-to-latin-america-continue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spanish newswire EFE is carrying a small story about how Russia has become the second-largest destination for exports from Uruguay after Brazil. From the Russia side of things, this will likely remain below the radar, but it is worth...]]></description>
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		<title>Pasko: Dvorishchi ain&#8217;t no Cape Town</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/pasko-dvorishchi-aint-no-cape-town/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/pasko-dvorishchi-aint-no-cape-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[atomic energy;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last week of October was a tense time for the bureaucrats at Minprirody, Russia's Ministry for the Protection of the Environment and Natural Resources, and naturally for Minister Yuri Petrovich Trutnev. He went all the way to Cape Town,...]]></description>
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		<title>More reflections on the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall falling</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/more-reflections-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-berlin-wall-falling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/more-reflections-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-berlin-wall-falling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite blogs, Business Monitor International's Risk Watchdog, had a post yesterday discussing the wider historical context of the Berlin Wall's fall. The discussion of the persistence of Communism and the comparison between 1979 and 1989 I personally...]]></description>
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		<title>Pipeline Pact</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/pipeline-pact/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/pipeline-pact/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
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 pipeline;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This in from the Wall Street Journal on the somewhat disturbing, political dimensions of Russia's Nord Stream pipeline.&#160; Approved just last week by Finland and Sweden after ecological concerns were overcome, the project is now ready to get off the...]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy-Duty Recycling</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/heavy-duty-recycling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/heavy-duty-recycling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coal-powered energy plants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[War as a means of securing energy resources is a familiar narrative.&#160; Peace as a means of securing energy resources is rather less typical . . . The New York Times today has a wonderfully ironic story on how decommissioned...]]></description>
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		<title>Time To Stop Making Excuses</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/time-to-stop-making-excuses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/time-to-stop-making-excuses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Medvedev proclaimed in his recent Der Spiegel interview that there is little difference between the rights record of Russia and that of its European counterparts: 'Our values are the same as yours. I don't see any major differences in...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 10, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-10-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-10-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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 pipeline;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US is apparently willing to give Iran more time to decide whether it will accept the UN's recent proposal on uranium enrichment abroad.&#160; Bad news for Gazprom - the company's profits fell by 48% in the first six months...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211; Nov 10, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-10-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-nov-10-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov has pledged not to fire workers from near-insolvent Avtovaz, but to create new subsidiaries employing up to 15,000 people.&#160; Auto sales declined by 51% in the first 10 months of 2009, compared with the...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; Nov 10, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-10-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-10-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Youtube policeman faces slander investigation; Omsk students threatened with expulsion; Committee to Protect Journalists urge global attention to threats against media in Russia. Merkel thanks Gorbachev; Medvedev approves new military bill; advocates abolition of death penalty. Delay for Gazprom...]]></description>
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		<title>Nigel Rendell: Buy Brazil, sell eastern Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post features an interview with Nigel Rendell, emerging market strategist of RBC Capital Markets about a broad spectrum of emerging-market related issues.]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons of the fall of the Berlin Wall for the modern day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." - Mark Twain David Satter, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and visiting scholar at SAIS, has done an amazing thing to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the...]]></description>
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		<title>Medvedev Defends Putin&#8217;s Presidency Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a quick extract from President Medvedev's interview with Der Spiegel, (the whole of which can be read here) where he discusses Putin's eyebrow-raising comments about how power is allotted in Russia:SPIEGEL: Putin's recent comment about the next presidential election...]]></description>
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		<title>Russian academia as petri dish: How the Poincaré Conjecture was solved</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal ran a piece the other day by Masha Geesen, adapted from her latest book, about the culture of mathematics during Soviet times and how it evolved into a post-Soviet brain drain, with the Poincaré Conjecture as...]]></description>
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		<title>Gorby Nostalgia</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/gorby-nostalgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today and indeed for the past week the press has been awash with articles reflecting on the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the issue of who got the ball rolling, how Eastern Europe and Russia have fared post-Soviet collapse,...]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Policeman&#8217;s Appeal To Putin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the Youtube post by disillusioned police officer Alexei Dymovskiy urging the Prime Minister to address the issue of endemic corruption in law enforcement.&#160; &#160;...]]></description>
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		<title>RusAl Hits Out At Journalists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently Oleg Deripaska does not hold the belief that bad publicity is better than no publicity.&#160; After Vedomosti published an article on October 26 claiming that the company had debts of just under $6 billion for last year, journalists at...]]></description>
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