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Why Stalin Would Be Proud of Putin | Opinion | The Moscow Times

One year ago on May 7, President-elect Vladimir Putin‘s motorcade traversed the empty streets of Moscow, cleared of every living soul by the police, to his inauguration in the Kremlin. This anniversary passed mostly unnoticed by the public and mainstream media. The reason is not so much that it was overshadowed by Victory Day celebrations and protest demonstrations but because there was nothing much to celebrate.

The country is not in better shape than it was a year ago, a fact that even Putin loyalists admit. Journalist Vitaly Tretyakov wrote on his LiveJournal blog: “The leaders of the ruling class are out of control. Reforms have been either unsuccessful or were transformed into business opportunities for bureaucrats. An innovative economy has not appeared, and there are no prospects for it in the near future. And the population hates the greedy ruling class more and more.”

Today, it is absolutely clear that the liberal “Putin 2.0″ predicted by his fans did not and will not appear. What Putin has achieved over the last 12 months fits perfectly into the description articulated by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Dublin last December: re-Sovietization.

Why Stalin Would Be Proud of Putin | Opinion | The Moscow Times

BBC News – Moscow clashes at anti-Putin protests

Protesters against Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin have clashed with police in the capital Moscow, ahead of Mr Putin’s inauguration on Monday for a third term.

The protest was peaceful until a small group of demonstrators tried to break through the lines of riot police.

Reports say opposition activists Alexei Navalny, Sergei Udaltsov and Boris Nemtsov have all been detained.

BBC News – Moscow clashes at anti-Putin protests

From Russia with Hate: Anti-Americanism Rampant in Putin’s Kremlin

In addition to the outrageous and unacceptable attacks on the U.S. ambassador, other examples of anti-Americanism include Putin’s reaction to the popular protests that erupted in Moscow after the Russian parliamentary elections in December and also in March following the Russian presidential elections. President-elect Putin actually blamed the demonstrations on Hillary Clinton and the U.S. State Department, accusing Clinton of “giving the signal” to the protestors. Putin further called opposition leaders “jackals scavenging near Western embassies” and “monkey packs.”

Now, American officials have reportedly been assured that all this anti-U.S. rhetoric streaming out of Moscow was simply a populist tactic in the election. Is this really to be believed? Of course not.

For the Russian government, using the U.S. as variously a whipping boy and a scarecrow is extremely convenient. Indeed, anti-Americanism is a long-standing and fundamental pillar of Russian foreign policy and public diplomacy. As noted by Heritage’s Ariel Cohen, “Anti-Americanism in Russia is rampant. Putin has relentlessly created an image of Russia under attack from Western enemies. It worked for the elections and is likely to continue as a pillar of Russia’s domestic and foreign policy.”

From Russia with Hate: Anti-Americanism Rampant in Putin’s Kremlin

Moscow Sees Military Threats from All Directions with the US Always Involved

Very aggressive anti-Americanism still exists in Moscow even after the election. Russian leaders see threats coming from all directions with the US always involved either directly or indirectly.

Anti-Western and anti-American official statements in Moscow did not dwindle after the presidential elections on March 4, as many in the West hoped, believing this was just electioneering PR. Aggressive anti-Western rhetoric in external and internal politics is the core of the present Russian regime. …

The Kremlin sees threats coming from all directions: Central Asia, the Caucasus, a territorial dispute with Japan in the Far East over the Kuril Islands, a war of words with Canada over potential drilling rights in the Arctic and, on the western border, the planned future deployment of US BMD systems in Poland, Romania and on US warships in the Black and in the North Seas. In all cases, the US is seen as being involved ether directly or indirectly as the main adversary. The fact that present or future US BMD capabilities, which may appear after 2017, cannot threaten Russian ICBMs is not taken into consideration.

Last month, during a security conference in the closed nuclear arms designing and producing city Sarov (Arzamas-16), Yuri Solomonov – the chief designer of Russia’s newest land and sea-based ICBMs, Bulava-30, Topol-M and Yars – in the presence of the press told president-elect Vladimir Putin that most of the declarations about the threat to Russian strategic nuclear forces posed by US plans to deploy BMD in Europe “are hearsay” and self-defeating. “I have designed ICBMs for more than 45 years and announce this absolutely officially,” proclaimed Solomonov. He recalled the 1980s when Russian military and political leaders with dire consequences took seriously President Ronald Regan’s “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). While the Soviet Union was spending billions inventing countermeasures, the SDI plans turned out to be unfeasible. Solomonov demanded that in the future the assessment of BMD threats as well as proposals for possible BMD cooperation with NATO must be made by true specialists. Putin told Solomonov “thank you” without any further comment. Today it is clear that Solomonov’s and other Russian experts’ attempts to bring some sense into the official anti-BMD policy have failed (EDM, March 1).

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Worst of the U.S. recession over: survey | U.S. | Reuters

I would feel much better about the recession ending if we weren’t headed for a cliff.

“The great recession is over,” said NABE President-Elect Lynn Reaser.

“The vast majority of business economists believe that the recession has ended, but that the economic recovery is likely to be more moderate than those typically experienced following steep declines.”

Worst of the U.S. recession over: survey | U.S. | Reuters

Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs for 2008

  • 1. First Neurons Created from ALS Patients
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    Half of all heart attacks in the U.S. occur in people with normal cholesterol levels. Baffled?
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  • 3. Scarless Surgery
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  • 4. Genomes for the Masses
    James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, did it. So did Craig Venter, co-mapper of the human genome.
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  • 5. New Genes for Alzheimer’s
    There is no cure, no vaccine and no way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease without an autopsy.
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  • 6. A Five-in-One Vaccine
    Any parent can appreciate how much babies hate shots. So, welcome Pentacel, the first vaccine to immunize against
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  • 7. Gene Screens for Breast Cancer
    Gene screens are fast becoming a powerful tool, not just for diagnosing cancer but for treating it as well. Joining the growing pool of genetic tests for
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    One of the best ways to confirm Down syndrome before birth is by amniocentesis, which uses a needle to remove a sample of the amniotic fluid surrounding a
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    Those motion-sickness patches can really help calm a churning stomach on a boat. So, someone decided to apply the
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  • 10. Stem-Cell Trachea Transplant
    In a transplant first, doctors in Spain gave Claudia Lorena Castillo Sanchez, 30, a new windpipe, constructed from a
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  • The Great Recession

    “An economic crisis of historic proportions.” That’s what President Elect Barack Obama calls this global financial crisis. Others go futher, warning that another world-wide Depression is still possible. The crisis is especially worrying because even leading economists are struggling to understand its unprecedented complexity.

    But our guest today, historian Niall Ferguson, suggests we take the long view. The economic system in undergoing a Darwinian style struggle which is killing off failed ecomomic practices. Two years ago he started writing a book that chronicles the financial history of the world, showing how societies rise and fall on their financial fortuntes.

    He predicted at the time that our current economic system was dangerously unstable; too dependent on credit and buried under unsustainable debt. Well, now he has been proven right, and his book “The Ascent of Money” could not be more timely. This Harvard and Oxford based professor has been called “one of the 100 most influential voices in the world” by Time Magazine. Brian met with Niall Ferguson recently.We present their conversation.

    CBC Our world The great recession with Niall Ferguson 1/3

    Part I
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    Inside Look: The Great Repression

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    U.S. debt is losing its appeal in China

    If China doesn’t want to fund our debt, how are we going to fund our trillion-dollar yearly deficits? I have a bad feeling about this.

    From the article:

    At first glance, the declining Chinese appetite for U.S. debt – apparent in a series of hints from Chinese policy makers over the past two weeks, with official statistics due for release in the next few days – comes at an inopportune time. On Tuesday, the U.S. president-elect, Barack Obama, said Americans should get used to the prospect of “trillion-dollar deficits for years to come” as he seeks to finance an $800 billion economic stimulus package.

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    The Russian Gamble

    Russia is reeling from the global financial crisis: its stock markets plunging , its currency on the brink. The drop in oil prices means the world’s second largest oil exporter – recently rich – is now in the red. How will America end up paying? Will financial crisis turn into political and military instability? Will Russia be the first big test for President-Elect Barack Obama? Erin Burnett reports from Moscow in CNBC’s original programming “The Russian Gamble.”

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    Panel warns biological attack likely by 2013

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