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Jay Ogilvy: "No Winner-Take-All Solution" Likely to Succeed in Ukraine
The "obsessive focus" of US media on the personality of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the context of the conflict in Ukraine "obscures much more important geopolitical realities", Jay Ogilvy writes in an analysis posted on the website of Stratfor, the geopolitical intelligence firm.
“Czar” Putin’s two new… presidential aircraft
Russians seem to be in uproar after the leak of a specific news piece about Vladimir Putin. It isn’t the economy, or politics, or even anti-gay laws, but it is that the President of the country has ordered two luxurious airplanes for his transportation needs amidst a severe fiscal crisis.
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Superkombat: Amansio Paraschiv first Romanian world champion of New Heroes' middleweights
Amansio Paraschiv of Ploiesti (north of Bucharest) became the world champion of the New Heroes middleweight class on Sunday, in an anniversary gala in his home city, defeating Albanian Julian Imeri in front of 4,000 fans.
Photo credit: (c) Amansio Paraschiv / Facebook.com
Ukrainian parliament turns into boxing ring (Watch Video)
The Ukrainian MPs turned Parliament into a boxing ring, when they started punching each other and one of them ended up bleeding.
According to Bloomberg the two “boxing fighters” belong to the centrist party and to the center-right accordingly.
The “show” ended with the helping hand of two uniformed men and the … intervention of tv cameras.
Moscow dismisses Pentagon finding that Putin has Asperger's
A Pentagon think tank released a study in 2008 stating that Russian President Vladimir Putin has Asperger's syndrome, an autistic disorder that affects his decision. Brenda Connors, an expert in movement pattern analysis at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, wrote that Putin's "neurological development was significantly interrupted in infancy."
The ‘Oil War’
âDid you know thereâs an oil war? And the war has an objective: to destroy Russia,â said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a live television speech last week. âItâs a strategically planned war ⦠also aimed at Venezuela, to try and destroy our revolution and cause an economic collapse.
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Chamber to sue state over abrupt green light to Turkey?s first nuclear plant
Turkey?s rebellious Chamber of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB) is set to open a lawsuit against the Environment Ministry after it hurriedly approved a highly controversial environmental report on Turkey?s first nuclear plant, ending months of legal wrangling a day ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin?s visit to Ankara last month.
Russia Tried Bribing Bulgarian Official to Support South Stream - NYT
Russian MP Aleksandr Babakov, a special envoy of Vladimir Putin tried to bribe a Bulgarian deputy energy minister, Bojan Stoyanov, to speed up the South Stream gas pipeline project, claims The New York Times.
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Merkel named "person of year" by British newspaper
Merkel named "person of year" by British newspaper
LONDON -- The Times newspaper has named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its "person of the year" - for her "central role in preserving European stability."
This happened "at a time of resurgent Russian aggression in eastern Europe," said the paper.
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Russia says currency crisis over, but inflation set to soar
Russia said its currency crisis was over on Dec. 15 but warned that inflation is set to climb above 10 percent, adding to the problems facing President Vladimir Putin's government as it fights its worst economic crisis since 1998.