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	<title>Stock Market News &#38; Stocks to Watch from StraightStocks &#187; Mikhail Khodorkovsky</title>
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		<title>How to Earn Putin Points and Survive in Russian Business</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/how-to-earn-putin-points-and-survive-in-russian-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was taken aback the other day to open up the Moscow Times website and find an glowing opinion article written by Brian Zimbler, a Moscow based lawyer of the firm Dewey &#38; LeBoeuf.&#160; The article, which heaped praise upon...]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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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>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>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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		<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>Miliband in Moscow and the need to link Russia-UK relations with human rights</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/miliband-in-moscow-and-the-need-to-link-russia-uk-relations-with-human-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob has an opinion article in today's edition of the Guardian stressing the importance of linking human rights with foreign relations during David Miliband's visit to Russia this week, and elsewhere in the same paper, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's mother has issued...]]></description>
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		<title>Blonde Ambition</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/blonde-ambition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The race for Ukraine's Presidency is hotting up.&#160; With the incumbent serial Kremlin-offender Viktor Yushchenko flagging with ratings of just 3%, it seems that battle has truly commenced between Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych.&#160; Russia-Ukraine relations...]]></description>
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		<title>SUPPORT KHODORKOVSKY ON TWITTER</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/support-khodorkovsky-on-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/support-khodorkovsky-on-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, today is the sixth anniversary of the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.&#160; On Oct. 25, 2003, a team of spetsnaz armed to the teeth raided an airplane on a snowy Novosibirsk runway, behaving as though they...]]></description>
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		<title>The Convict who Frightens the Kremlin</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-convict-who-frightens-the-kremlin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-convict-who-frightens-the-kremlin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a translation of an article about the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky published in the French weekly magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur. The Convict who Frightens the Kremlin From our special correspondent in Moscow Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former head...]]></description>
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		<title>Translation from Le Point: Accused Khodorkovsky, Stand Up!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kafkaesque. The former Russian oil tycoon, who stood up to Putin, is back before his judges. Here is the story. [The following is a translation of an article published in the French publication Le Point.] Le Point, October 15, 2009...]]></description>
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		<title>Video: The Khodorkovsky Trial Art Contest</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/video-the-khodorkovsky-trial-art-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here goes a subtitled video montage of the one of the first exhibitions of all the art produced as part of a contest of student artists visiting the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky....]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Russia Mourns its Capo dei Capi</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/video-russia-mourns-its-capo-dei-capi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well one can say a lot of things about the Russian mafia leader Vyacheslav K. Ivankov, but you wouldn't say he didn't have an impact on the country, as his funeral today brought out crowds of hundreds.&#160; In this news...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A wise person most likely would have avoided such a fate&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/a-wise-person-most-likely-would-have-avoided-such-a-fate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RFE/RL interviews Pavel Khodorkovsky, the 24-year-old son of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, as he participated in against Russia's holding of political prisoners on Times Square in New York City:"I think that at the time my father was rather idealistic. He was innocent...]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Andrei Illarionov at the Khodorkovsky Trial</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/video-andrei-illarionov-at-the-khodorkovsky-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/video-andrei-illarionov-at-the-khodorkovsky-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrei Illarionov]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the light posting yesterday - I wanted to give everybody time to heft their way through the Taglivini report.&#160; Let's see if we can make up for yesterday today.&#160; Here is a subtitled interview of Andrei Illarionov outside...]]></description>
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		<title>Arvo Pärt Symphony to Khodorkovsky Debuts Tonight in Toronto</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/arvo-part-symphony-to-khodorkovsky-debuts-tonight-in-toronto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past we have blogged about the famed Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's dedication of his latest Symphony #4 to Mikhail Khodorkovsky.&#160; Tonight at 8PM at the Toronto Centre for the Arts this work will debut.&#160; For my fellow Canadian...]]></description>
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		<title>The Return of &#8220;Prikhvatizatsiya&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-return-of-prikhvatizatsiya/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-return-of-prikhvatizatsiya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Financial Times Lex Column comments on the recent announcement by Igor Shuvalov that Russia will undergo a new wave of privatizations of state shares in companies such as Rosneft in order to lure reluctant investors back. Officials talk, too,...]]></description>
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		<title>Italian Parliament in Support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mr. Khodorkovsky's international legal counsel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The following is a press release being distributed today on behalf of the Mikhail Khodorkovsky defense team: OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF ITALIAN PARLIAMENT VOTE TO SUPPORT MIKHAIL KHORDOKOVSKY Rome, September 23, 2009 - The Italian parliament today voted in favour...]]></description>
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		<title>Tageszeitung: New Version of a Russian Judicial Farce</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitri Medvedev]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an exclusive translation of an article about the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky published in the German newspaper Die Tageszeitung:New Version of a Russian Judicial FarcePOLITICAL PROCESS The imprisoned ex-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his partner Platon Lebedev...]]></description>
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		<title>Gazprom Continues its Italian Shell Games to Steal Yukos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two interesting pieces of news coincide today from the sordid world of Russian energy politics.&#160; First, permissions to build the 403-meter "Gazscraper" tower in St. Petersburg were muscled through local government by Valentina Matvienko over the protests of preservationists, while...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; September 23, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-september-23-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ TODAY: EU chief has faith that Russia will not stand in the way of sanctions against Iran; US reproaches Russia on human rights; hope for WTO bid?&#160; Yushchenko suggests NATO bid would receive popular backing; ethnic haters charged; new...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; September 22, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-september-22-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ TODAY: Chief of staff denies decisions on Kaliningrad plan; Churkin criticizes US 'cold war attitude'; arms reduction talks not progressing as smoothly as they may appear.&#160; Israel maintains choice in Iran; Russia suggests onus on NATO to improve ties;...]]></description>
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		<title>A. Lebedev: &#8220;Putin is a hostage to the tradition of a corrupt country&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A blogger for Reuters has grabbed some sharp quotes from the always interesting oligarch Alexander Lebedev on the sidelines of the Investment Summit:"The conditions for entrepreneurship in Russia are simply horrible," Lebedev told the Reuters Russia Investment Summit.Lebedev has plenty...]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy Lessons in Yaroslavl</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/democracy-lessons-in-yaroslavl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the publishing of President Dmitry Medvedev's extended liberal thought piece, which at least one commentator said may as well have been penned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Kremlin convened a conference yesterday in Yaroslavl entitled "The Modern State and Global...]]></description>
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		<title>The Gulag Syllabus</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-gulag-syllabus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alexander solzhenitsyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gulag archipelago]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ministry spokesman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right, so here goes a weird one.&#160; Alexander Solzhenitsyn's book The Gulag Archipelago will be made required reading for school children:According to the state-run news agency RIA Novosti, the Education Ministry on Wednesday ordered that passages from the book become...]]></description>
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		<title>RAs Daily Russia News Blast, Sept 7, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russia-news-blast-sept-7-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russia-news-blast-sept-7-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexei Miller]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Focus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[human rights commissioner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yasnogorsk Machine-Building Factory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Again, my apologies for the late posting of this news blast, as I'm covering all the bases on my own today... - Best, James]TODAY:&#160; The United States sells even more arms during a recession, Gorbachev's towering ego, more gas spats...]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Up Eni Is Hard to Do</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/breaking-up-eni-is-hard-to-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/breaking-up-eni-is-hard-to-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[activist investor group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy dinosaurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy security argument]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Amsterdam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I saw this note on FT Lex which essentially argued for the Italian energy company Eni to be split up into two separate companies in order to maximize value.&#160; Today they are running another piece about the activist investor...]]></description>
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		<title>Khodorkovsky&#8217;s Show Trial Now a Tourist Destination</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/khodorkovskys-show-trial-now-a-tourist-destination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/khodorkovskys-show-trial-now-a-tourist-destination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Platon Lebedev;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Svetlana Gubanova]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This just came over the air from Svetlana Gubanova at Echo Moskvy with regard to the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev:"For any Muscovite or visitor to the Russian capital, they say, it has become a sign of good...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; August 25, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-august-25-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arseniy Yatsenyuk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Astakhov;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Filipp Kondratyev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first black politician]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joaquim Crima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Natalya Estemirova]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opposition member]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramzan Kadyrov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the 18th anniversary of Ukraine's independence from Soviet rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Moscow Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vasily Aleksanyan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verkhnyaya Ivolga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vice President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viktor Yushchenko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yukos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ TODAY: Yushchenko hits back; Russia accuses Ukraine of participation in Georgia war.&#160; Medvedev suggests media scaremongering regarding disaster.&#160; Seeks the advice of Buddhists.&#160; Putin visits Kadyrov; Estemirova commemorated. Two candidates for the title of Russia's Obama.Russia has reportedly claimed...]]></description>
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		<title>Trial Witnesses Under Pressure in Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/trial-witnesses-under-pressure-in-russia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/trial-witnesses-under-pressure-in-russia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[head]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ingushetia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Megan K. Stack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vasily Aleksanyan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vera Bobryakova]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, we've seen a long record of witness harassment, threats, and intimidation - including the medical blackmail against Vasily Aleksanyan to procure false testimony, and the story of torture against Antonio Valdez-Garcia.&#160; Beyond the Yukos...]]></description>
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		<title>What a Failed Georgia Means for Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/what-a-failed-georgia-means-for-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/what-a-failed-georgia-means-for-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[André Glucksmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Journal;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflammatory media rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military specialist]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[OSCE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pavel Felgenhauer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Army]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The French philosopher André Glucksmann has been one of Europe's most outspoken advocates in support of liberty of Russian political prisoners, such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky.&#160; Here in City Journal is a translation of a thought piece by Glucksmann relating to...]]></description>
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		<title>¡Bienvenidos a Caracas, Comandante Sechin!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to know what Russia's energy ambitions are in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, I used to tell people that all you had to do was carefully track the travel schedule of Vladimir Putin.&#160;...]]></description>
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		<title>Alleged Gas Mobster Released</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/alleged-gas-mobster-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawyer in Israel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Semyon Mogilevich;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have written a number of blog posts about the arrest of Semyon Mogilevich, his alleged ties to the natural gas trade, and the subsequent trial.&#160; Today, we are shocked to read of his release from jail.From the Financial Times,...]]></description>
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		<title>Sergei Kovalev: Judicial Pillaging at Khodorkovsky Trial</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/sergei-kovalev-judicial-pillaging-at-khodorkovsky-trial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advocate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a letter from the human rights advocate Sergei Kovalev in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The letter was also published on korpunkt.com and khodorkovsky.ru. With the YUKOS trial, the power is engaging not only and not so much...]]></description>
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		<title>Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov Targeted</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/moscow-mayor-yuri-luzhkov-targeted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[businessman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catherine Belton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shalva Chigirinsky]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does the closing of a large Moscow flea market have in common with a fake tax evasion case-slash-state takeover scheme of an oil company?&#160; Moscow's Mayor Yuri Luzhkov is at the center of both them, revealing, what some sources...]]></description>
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		<title>Words of Justice Ring Hollow on Journalist Murder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalia Estemirova]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Klebnikov;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The typical reactions have started to roll in from the international community in response to Natalia Estemirova's murder, and it's hard not to sense the thick surreality of these calls for justice, investigations, and expectations that the authorities will take...]]></description>
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		<title>RAs Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; July 14, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-july-14-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Medvedev visits South Ossetia in move called provocation by Saakashvili, flouting US comments about unity of Georgia?; British academics bemoan closure of history website; Bolshois musical director quitsMedvedev has made a surprise visit to South Ossetia to pledge support...]]></description>
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		<title>A G8 Flashback for Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/a-g8-flashback-for-russia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/a-g8-flashback-for-russia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the good 'ole times from back in the summer of 2006?&#160; Russia was about to host the G8 Summit, Anna Politkovskaya and Stanislav Markelov were still alive and working hard, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky had only been in the gulag...]]></description>
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		<title>Forbes Hasn&#8217;t Forgotten Klebnikov</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/forbes-hasnt-forgotten-klebnikov/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/forbes-hasnt-forgotten-klebnikov/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of Barack Obama's visit to Russia, Forbes is publishing a number of new articles as part of a special report to remind everybody that the murder of their former employee, Paul Klebnikov, remains unsolved and politically stalled.&#160; Here...]]></description>
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		<title>Khodorkovsky: Russia is Fit for Democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/khodorkovsky-russia-is-fit-for-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/khodorkovsky-russia-is-fit-for-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Moscow Times has published an opinion article authored by Mikhail Khodorkovsky:On the chance that somebody has forgotten, I will remind them that Russians have also sacrificed their share of blood at different points in history in defense of...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; July 7, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-july-7-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-july-7-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: US and Russia will cut nuclear stockpiles by a third; Obama says possibility of 'extraordinary progress' at summit; no conclusion on missile defense; despite previous barbed comments, Putin-Obama meeting warm; Russian press quiet on the visitPresident Obama and President...]]></description>
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		<title>To Intervene or Not to Intervene</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/to-intervene-or-not-to-intervene/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/to-intervene-or-not-to-intervene/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arriving in Moscow today, President Barack Obama commented to Novaya Gazeta on the Mikhail Khodorkovsky show trial, adding his view that it is "improper for outsiders to interfere in the legal processes of Russia."&#160; I see nothing wrong with that...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; July 6, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-july-6-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-july-6-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Obamarama begins with touchdown in Moscow today; the US President grants interview to opposition paper; Putin rebuffs suggestion he favors old ways; Obama trying divide and conquer on Medvedev and Putin?; missile defense may be a dealbreaker; Stalinism and...]]></description>
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		<title>Khodorkovsky: My Life in the Gulag</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/khodorkovsky-my-life-in-the-gulag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/khodorkovsky-my-life-in-the-gulag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an English translation of an interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the Italian magazine L'Espresso:My life in a gulag&#160;Talks with Mikhail Khodorkovsky by Gigi Riva The political and economic interests behind his case. The difficult life in prison....]]></description>
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		<title>The Economic Damage of Politicized Justice</title>
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		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-economic-damage-of-politicized-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Blank has an interesting new article on Forbes in which he assesses the economic damage being caused by Russia's inability to effectively reduce legal nihilism and corruption, both of which are dragging on the country's attempt to recover from...]]></description>
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		<title>Do The Math</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/do-the-math/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Yulia Latynina's column in the Moscow Times:On June 17, President Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao signed an agreement in which Russia will sell 300 million tons of oil to China over 20 years for $100 billion. That...]]></description>
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		<title>Andreas Schockenhoff on the Khodorkovsky Trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is the official press statement from the offices of the German MP Dr Andreas Schockenhoff, who attended the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky as an observer. His conclusions, as you can read below, are sharply critical of the...]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Mikhail Khodorkovsky</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/happy-birthday-mikhail-khodorkovsky/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/happy-birthday-mikhail-khodorkovsky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Putley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Borisovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[official trial site]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Уважаемый Михаил Борисович! Примите наши самые искренние поздравления по случаю Вашего дня рождения. Несмотря на те условия, в которых Вы сейчас находитесь, мы от всего сердца желаем Вам крепкого здоровья, душевного покоя и семейного согласия. Роберт Амстердам и все...]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Get Realistic about Telenor</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/lets-get-realistic-about-telenor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/lets-get-realistic-about-telenor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alfa Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gestapo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kremlin;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[private groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state energy;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VimpelCom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Good 'ole Norway.&#160; You'd never hear a peep from them about human rights or democracy shortcomings over in Russia, and in exchange they are gifted with some large contracts for the state energy company.&#160; Nobody ever said it was a...]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Medvedev and the Khodorkovsky Trial</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/video-medvedev-and-the-khodorkovsky-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/video-medvedev-and-the-khodorkovsky-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrei Piontkovsky;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Andrei Piontkovsky shares his opinions - and his alone - about the motivations behind the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.&#160; He says that it functions as a kind of insurance policy to keep President Dmitry Medvedev reigned in tight with...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; June 17, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-june-17-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-june-17-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dairy products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Date]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dissident Czech;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy supplies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islamic Republic of Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Itar-Tass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manmohan Singh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Embassy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergei Karpukhin;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergei Ryabkov;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tehran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Moscow Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Telegraph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaclav Havel;]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: SCO wraps up in blaze of activity; Medvedev calls BRIC 'historic event'; no decision from US on defense system; German MPs agree Khodorkovsky trial is trial for Russian justice; Vaclev Havel speaks out against RussiaFor detailed step-by-step coverage of...]]></description>
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		<title>Putin and Medvedev Clash over Expropriations</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/putin-and-medvedev-clash-over-expropriations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/putin-and-medvedev-clash-over-expropriations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cement;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hermitage Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law enforcers;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oleg Deripaska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[temporary anti-crisis tool;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Browder;]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Ariel Cohen's contribution to the New York Times:Furthermore, Medvedev and Kudrin would like to see Russia join the O.E.C.D. Herein lies the rub: Russia today doesn't fit the organization's criteria for property rights, transparency and the rule of law....]]></description>
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		<title>The Prosecutorial Bulldozer</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-prosecutorial-bulldozer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-prosecutorial-bulldozer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Court of Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow City Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Amsterdam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rule-of-law courts;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Amsterdam has a new by-lined article on the latest developments in the Mikhail Khodorkovsky trial published on the legal news website JURIST.Rejection of appeal is latest example of due process failures in Khodorkovsky caseRobert Amsterdam [Counsel for Mikhail Khodorkovsky]:...]]></description>
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		<title>Gibraltar Island, and other absurdities from the Khodorkovsky trial</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/gibraltar-island-and-other-absurdities-from-the-khodorkovsky-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/gibraltar-island-and-other-absurdities-from-the-khodorkovsky-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gibraltar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gibraltar Island;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Island of Gibraltar;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maryana Torocheshnikova writes about the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in OpenDemocracy:The new charge against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev is, among other things, based on many documents containing absurd factual errors. As an example the defence highlighted the low quality of translations...]]></description>
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		<title>The Gas Mobster Trial</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-gas-mobster-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-gas-mobster-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexei Frenkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrei Kozlov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[created concern;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy
security;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas trade;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interior Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interpol;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural gas trade;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Kupchinsky;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Semyon Mogilevich;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Switzerland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkmenistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Russia's prosecutorial bulldozer plods its way through the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, another trial is getting underway across town, which oddly makes the former seem relatively open, at least by Russian standards.&#160; Some of our more loyal readers...]]></description>
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		<title>American Perestroika</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/american-perestroika/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/american-perestroika/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Gorbachev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slovakia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slovenia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mikhail Gorbachev has some advice for the United States in today's Washington Post (also see Mikhail Khodorkovsky's very similar "global perestroika"): Elements of such a model already exist in some countries. Having rejected the tutorials of the International Monetary Fund,...]]></description>
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		<title>Medvedev&#8217;s Interview with Bartiromo</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/medvedevs-interview-with-bartiromo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/medvedevs-interview-with-bartiromo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Bartiromo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have been hearing about this interview with President Dmitry Medvedev for a few days now, and I think that Maria Bartiromo really zeroes on some of the most important questions, such as whether or not foreign capital can be...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; June 5, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-june-5-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-june-5-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Lebedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baikal paper mill;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caucasus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt-stricken air carrier;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defense Ministry;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evening Standard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hitler;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ilham Aliyev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khamovnichesky Court building;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khamovnichesky Court;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oleg Deripaska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pikalyovo;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serzh Sargsyan;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solidarity;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soviet Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the  run;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vladmir Putin;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warsaw]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Putin likens Oleg Deripaska and other Pikalyovo factory owners to 'cockroaches' in open castigation of the super-rich; fears of social unrest due to unemployment becoming a reality?; Poland angered by Russian 'rewrite' of the origins of World War TwoPrime...]]></description>
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		<title>Greedy Cockroaches</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/greedy-cockroaches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/greedy-cockroaches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's the quote of the week.&#160; Vladimir Putin usually saves the public tongue-lashings for incompetent officials during cabinet meetings, but today he went totally chavista on Oleg Deripaska:Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly humiliated a top oligarch on Thursday, accusing...]]></description>
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		<title>Putin&#8217;s Firm Grip</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/putins-firm-grip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/putins-firm-grip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Novaya Gazeta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opposition newspaper;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the New York Times]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new piece in the Economist sees no change in government coming for Russia for a long, long time.&#160; The main risk, the authors argue, is not bankruptcy or political crisis, but stagnation from failure to reform the economy (a...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; June 2, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-june-2-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-june-2-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anatoly Serdyukov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrei Reshitov;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avigdor Lieberman;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belarus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: EU critical of South Ossetia elections; Israeli foreign minister in Moscow; START talks underway in Geneva; court rules against Khodorkovsky appeal; journalist seeks asylum in Finland; order of parental glory ceremonyThe EU has joined Georgia in claiming that the...]]></description>
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		<title>The Russian Genius</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-russian-genius/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-russian-genius/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gleb Yakunin;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chávez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought Richard Lourie's column today in the Moscow Times was particularly interesting, and reminded me of several conversations I had during my last trip to Caracas.&#160; A friend commented to me that a true totalitarian, whether you're talking about...]]></description>
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		<title>A Khodorkovsky Retrospective</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/a-khodorkovsky-retrospective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/a-khodorkovsky-retrospective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Valdés-García;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[embezzled oil proceeds;]]></category>
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enforcement;]]></category>
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proceeds;]]></category>
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production;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil worth;]]></category>
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Assembly;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Platon L. Lebedev;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[refined and transported
oil;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russian Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tightly-controlled
state-run pipeline network;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vertically-integrated energy;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today a Polish magazine is publishing a version of the attached extended article, will update with link soon."Power, Carry out Your Laws!"By Robert Amsterdam These words stated by Mikhail Khodorkovsky at the start of a second show trial against him...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; June 1, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-june-1-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Lukashenko]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Belarussian;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kremlin-friendly Unity party;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russian dolls;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Talks on Russia joining WTO require work; South Ossetia election sees Georgia tensions simmer; no 'begging' for Belarus; Moscow opposition march broken up by police; Russian dolls President Dmitry Medvedev and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso have agreed on...]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting Mr. Milner</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/meeting-mr-milner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/meeting-mr-milner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 19:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Extra M;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gregory
Finger;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mary Meeker;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Financial Times profiles the new Russian owner of 2% of Facebook.Mr Milner's story, like his growing portfolio, combines American ideas with Russian opportunities. The son of an economist and a doctor, he studied particle physics at Moscow State University...]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Facebook&#8217;s New Russian Partner?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/who-is-facebooks-new-russian-partner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/who-is-facebooks-new-russian-partner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Tamas;]]></category>
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shortages;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday's big news was that the Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies purchased a 2% stake of preferred shares in the immensely popular social media platform Facebook.&#160; But who is this group, and who's behind it?&#160; Other the company's official...]]></description>
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		<title>Zeks for Khodorkovsky</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/zeks-for-khodorkovsky/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/zeks-for-khodorkovsky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 20:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrei Volozhanin;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grigory Pasko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marina Filippovna;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yuri Schmidt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ A phone call in the middle of the night Grigory Pasko, journalistRecently, I received a phone call in the middle of the night from Andrei Volozhanin - a former zek in the Krasnokamensk colony, who was once assigned the...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211; May 26, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/today-in-russian-business-may-26-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/today-in-russian-business-may-26-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 08:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexei Kudrin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food Prices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin is basing next year's budget on the prediction that oil will be at least $50 a barrel - an improvement on this year's prediction of $41.&#160; Medvedev is not so optimistic, presenting his budget priorities himself...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; May 26, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-may-26-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-may-26-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 08:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Russia condemns North Korea 'Hiroshima' size bomb test; Lavrov says election result in Lebanon must be respected; Medvedev believes influence in CIS states should be extended; streamlining the military provokes discontentA spokesman for President Medvedev has said that 'North...]]></description>
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		<title>On the Responsibility of Business in Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/on-the-responsibility-of-business-in-russia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/on-the-responsibility-of-business-in-russia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 21:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mendeleyev Institute of Chemical
Technology;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil tycoon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky has granted an extensive written interview to the Moscow Times in which he criticized the social responsibility practices and anti-crisis efforts of Russia's business elite.&#160; Keep your eyes peeled on the official MBK site for more on this...]]></description>
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		<title>Smells Like Yukos</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/smells-like-yukos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 18:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Sannikov;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vedomosti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a rather strange story from Moscow News, but it seems that one Russian businessman wants to express his solidarity with Mikhail Khodorkovsky by producing a perfume line bearing the Yukos company name.&#160; It will be tough to sell...]]></description>
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		<title>Khodorkovsky Accuses Procuracy of Wiretapping</title>
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		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/khodorkovsky-accuses-procuracy-of-wiretapping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 17:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jailed Yukos;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prosecutor
General's Office;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RIA Novosti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Amsterdam]]></category>
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Security Service;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This just came over the wire from RIA Novosti, and was also reported earlier on Robert Amsterdam's Twitter feed:Jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky accused Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday of listening in on his lawyers' telephone conversations."I have...]]></description>
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		<title>ECHR Admits Khodorkovsky Case</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/echr-admits-khodorkovsky-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/echr-admits-khodorkovsky-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 11:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dutch court;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[metal cage;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big news today from Strasbourg. The European Court on Human Rights has admitted a complaint submitted by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, meaning that the court will hear arguments from the defense that his arrest, persecution, and trial by the Russian government has...]]></description>
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		<title>Grigory Pasko: In the Land of Déjà Vu</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/grigory-pasko-in-the-land-of-deja-vu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/grigory-pasko-in-the-land-of-deja-vu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 19:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Konovalov;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grigory Pasko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law-and-order pitch;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[River Volga;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say what you will about the administration of justice in Russia, but the tireless innovation of government officials is beyond doubt. Recently, Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov gave an interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, coming up with the brilliant idea of...]]></description>
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		<title>Grigory Pasko: Has the Great Thaw Arrived?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/grigory-pasko-has-the-great-thaw-arrived/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/grigory-pasko-has-the-great-thaw-arrived/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 16:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grigory Pasko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KGB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Novaya Gazeta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergey Dovlatov;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sochi;]]></category>
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Duma;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Svetlana Bakhmina]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Dmitry Medvedev recently met with human rights advocates. Hooray for Medvedev! Medvedev gave an interview to Novaya Gazeta. What a guy! They've released former YUKOS lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina. Respect - to him, naturally, the president. He fired the Moscow...]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Pessimism</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/russian-pessimism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/russian-pessimism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 19:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrei Kortunov;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chávez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moscow Times]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia's border;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Moscow Times]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pessimism, it seems, is blind to partisan differences in Russia.&#160; This is from an interesting column by Andrei Kortunov in the Moscow Times.It is interesting that Russia's conservative "patriots" and the diametrically opposed liberals are in many respects equally pessimistic....]]></description>
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		<title>Putin Approaches a Decade in Power</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/putin-approaches-a-decade-in-power/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/putin-approaches-a-decade-in-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 17:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blaise Pascal;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chávez]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nemtsov;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[His contemporary Hugo Chavez in Venezuela has been doing the authoritarian-political prisoner thing for more than a decade, but Vladimir Putin is not too far behind.&#160; With any luck, these fellows could emulate the successful grip on power of Zimbabwe's...]]></description>
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		<title>Dmitry Muratov Visits the Khodorkovsky Trial</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/dmitry-muratov-visits-the-khodorkovsky-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/dmitry-muratov-visits-the-khodorkovsky-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 22:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Muratov Visits;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Muratov;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a translation from khodorkovsky.ru of the highly regarded journalist Dmitry Muratov's experience visiting the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.&#160; Earlier this year President Dmitry Medvedev granted an interview to Muratov and Novaya Gazeta, in a move that was interpreted...]]></description>
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		<title>Beck: The &#8220;Highly Political&#8221; Trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/beck-the-highly-political-trial-of-mikhail-khodorkovsky/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/beck-the-highly-political-trial-of-mikhail-khodorkovsky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 19:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marieluise Beck;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Platon Lebedev;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the first anniversary of Medvedev's ascension to the post of Russian President;]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a press release from Marieluise Beck, German Member of Parliament: On the first anniversary of Medvedev's ascension to the post of Russian President, Marieluise Beck, MP, declares: Russia's President Medvedev began his time in office with a...]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Medvedev&#8217;s 1st Anniversary at the Khodorkovsky Trial</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/celebrating-medvedevs-1st-anniversary-at-the-khodorkovsky-trial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 16:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celebrating Medvedev's 1st Anniversary;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luke Harding;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medvevev's anniversary;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Platon Lebedev;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 7th, 2008 - one year ago today - Dmitry Medvedev assumed the office of the Presidency of Russian Federation.&#160; Luke Harding at the Guardian reviews his first year in office, stopping by the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky:Earlier...]]></description>
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		<title>The Russo-Venezuelan Human Rights Playbook</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-russo-venezuelan-human-rights-playbook/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-russo-venezuelan-human-rights-playbook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 18:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chavez government;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Satter]]></category>
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cartels;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hillary clinton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jose Miguel Vivanco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kalashnikov factory;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Roth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miguel Vivanco;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naval exercise media circus;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil nationalizations;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ José Miguel Vivanco, the Americas director of Human Rights Watch, has published an opinion article in today's Washington Post criticizing the human rights abuses of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.&#160; Although I am certainly influenced by the fact that...]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking Distance from the Khodorkovsky Case</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/seeking-distance-from-the-khodorkovsky-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/seeking-distance-from-the-khodorkovsky-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 19:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[former oil tycoon;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gleb Pavlovsky;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political advisory Gleb Pavlovsky has given an extensive interview resulting in two separate articles in the Financial Times, one of which includes commentary about how he believes President Dmitry Medvedev sees the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky (a horrendous travesty...]]></description>
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		<title>Vera Buldakova: Russia&#8217;s Education Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/vera-buldakova-russias-education-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/vera-buldakova-russias-education-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Gates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distance learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experimental test-site;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Inna Vylegzhanina;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[internet-savvy teachers;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irina Komarova;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Let us;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M.B.;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[network technologies;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social services]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stupor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vera Buldakova;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viktor Petrovich Savinykh;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[www.letopisi.ru;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note from editor:&#160; These days, those of us who haven't yet fallen into a catatonic stupor listening to the procurators' voices droning away in a dingy courtroom in Moscow have been hearing a litany of fantastic crimes supposedly committed by...]]></description>
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		<title>Enduring Legal Nihilism</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/enduring-legal-nihilism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/enduring-legal-nihilism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Star]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Scholl;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Scholl, who is an author and the Moscow burueau chief of Austrian public television, has a comment piece on Project Syndicate (Daily Star is running it) about the ongoing abuses of human rights and deepening legal nihilism as characterized...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; April 30, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-april-30-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jaap de Hoop Scheffer;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Konstantin Kosachev;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: NATO and Russia resume formal dialogue; Russia-Ukraine tensions easing?; Kyrgyzstan denies talks with US on military base; Kasparov confronts prosecutor at Yukos trial; Novaya Gazeta wins awardFormal contacts between Russia and NATO have officially recommenced under the framework of...]]></description>
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s Rosneft Nailed in Yukos Suit for $389 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dutch court;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reuters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosneft Nailed;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia's Chamber of Commerce;]]></category>
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Court;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[YUKOS Capital;]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kommersant, via Reuters, is reporting that a Dutch court has upheld a lawsuit brought by the former shareholders of Yukos against the Russian government - specifically Rosneft - obligating them to pay upwards of $389 million to compensate for the...]]></description>
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		<title>Kasparov Attacks Khodorkovsky Prosecutors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gyulchekhra Ibragimova;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yukos Oil Company;]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press:Chess master Garry Kasparov staged the latest of his guerrilla hit-and-run protests against the Kremlin on Wednesday, showing up at the criminal trial of a former billionaire and engaging in a brief, heated debate with one of...]]></description>
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		<title>Marieluise Beck: Impressions of a Show Trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Council of Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grigory Javlinski;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marieluise Beck;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marina Filippovna;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Platon Lebedev;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a translation from the website of Marieluise Beck, a German Member of Parliament who made herself available to attend hearings of the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky as an observer.&#160; This memo summarizes her impressions of the...]]></description>
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		<title>Kudrin Subpoened to Testify in Khodorkovsky Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia's Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin just got served during a visit to Washington D.C. with a Federal Court subpoena to testify in the trial against Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Russia.&#160; This story was broke by Reuters:"On April 24, an unidentified...]]></description>
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		<title>Torture and Beatings of Key Witness in Khodorkovsky Trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[23/04/2009;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Valdés-García;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is an exclusive translation of a breaking story from the Spanish press. First published in El Pais, and also covered by several other outlets, the story concerns Antonio Valdés-García, a Spanish-Russian dual citizen who was beaten and tortured to...]]></description>
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		<title>Arvo Pärt on Khodorkovsky</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past we've blogged about the composer Arvo Pärt dedicating a symphony to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and given the second show trial, he has spoken out again in his defense.&#160; Below is a follow up from Helsingin Sanomat:"He is a...]]></description>
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		<title>Bakhmina Not Out of the Dark Yet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ikhlov;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivan Bolshakov;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article by Sergei Balashov over at Russia Profile finds it suspicious that the Kremlin only paroled Svetlana Bakhmin instead of granting her pardon ... meaning that perhaps there are a few more tricks left up their sleeves to continue...]]></description>
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		<title>Russia Panicking Over Yukos Lawsuits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton;]]></category>
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treaty;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy agreement;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evgeny Kiselyov;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second show trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky on trumped up charges is one thing, but the worldwide legal assault on those in the Russian government who illegally stole his former company, Yukos, is an entirely different set of concerns for...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; April 22, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[139th anniversary of the
 birth of Lenin;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lenin;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[retail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Russia to delay NATO council meeting; Ryabko critical on US missile defense; ex-Yukos lawyer released on parole; Medvedev starts Internet discussion group; Lenin's birthday suitRussia has notified NATO of its postponing of the May 7 chief of staff meeting,...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; April 21, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Astakhov;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Rogozin;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vladislav Funtyakov;]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Medvedev tentative regarding US nuclear deal; Russia to boycott forthcoming NATO meeting?; early voting takes place in Sochi; ombudsman says human rights situation in Russia is staticPresident Medvedev has expressed caution regarding Obama's plans for nuclear disarmament, saying that...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; April 21, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-april-21-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Astakhov;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vladislav Funtyakov;]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Medvedev tentative regarding US nuclear deal; Russia to boycott forthcoming NATO meeting?; early voting takes place in Sochi; ombudsman says human rights situation in Russia is staticPresident Medvedev has expressed caution regarding Obama's plans for nuclear disarmament, saying that...]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Anders Aslund on the Khodorkovsky Trial</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/video-anders-aslund-on-the-khodorkovsky-trial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anders Aslund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrei Sakharov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law system;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Gorbachev]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Petersen Institute for International Economics;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tatyana Makeyeva;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow at the Petersen Institute for International Economics, to discuss some of the most pressing issues in Russia affairs.&#160; In this exclusive interview segment, Aslund discusses his views...]]></description>
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		<title>Human Rights in the Eyes of the Russian Government</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/human-rights-in-the-eyes-of-the-russian-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lev Ponomarev;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil tycoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vladimir Lukin;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press has a story running today about the release of a new human rights report by Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, which focuses on the 28,000 complaints filed for alleged misconduct by the police.&#160; On the one hand, it is...]]></description>
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		<title>Shuvalov&#8217;s Promises for 2020</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/shuvalovs-promises-for-2020/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/shuvalovs-promises-for-2020/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communist Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Wells;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Bohm;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikita Khrushchev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympic Games]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting op/ed in today's Moscow Times by Michael Bohm, which disputes some that the goals of Strategy 2020 require no readjustment given the damage caused by the economic crisis.&#160; Naturally, our eyes our drawn to Bohm's comments...]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Conversations with Ariel Cohen</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/video-conversations-with-ariel-cohen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/video-conversations-with-ariel-cohen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ariel Cohen 
        Last;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ariel Cohen;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamic Republic of Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week right before the holidays we had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Ariel Cohen, who just on the heels of publishing a new report on Russia, spoke to us about the Obama Administration's success and challenges in...]]></description>
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		<title>Grigory Pasko: Thoughts on the Trial</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/grigory-pasko-thoughts-on-the-trial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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Dmitry Shokhin;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some thoughts on the trial Grigory Pasko, journalist At the trial in the case of the theft of all the oil in Russia, they are reading the text of the bill of indictment - 14 volumes of 300 pages apiece....]]></description>
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		<title>The Khodorkovsky Test for Medvedev</title>
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		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-khodorkovsky-test-for-medvedev/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[former oil magnate;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a Washington Post editorial: IT'S BEEN nearly a year since Dmitry Medvedev took office as Russia's president following a much-publicized vow to attack what he called the "legal nihilism" of his country. His record so far is not looking...]]></description>
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