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		<title>Assange to broadcast on Kremlin-run TV</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, is to host a talk show on Russia Today, a Russian state-run English language network known for its closeness to the Kremlin. Tweet]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Election Protests</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of people have demonstrated to express their anger at alleged rigging in Russia&#8217;s parliamentary elections, as a human rights group set up by the Russian president has recommended that a snap election be held. Opposition activists staged their second set of nationwide rallies on Saturday to protest against what they say were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Wives Give Husbands A Prison Break!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Francis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut &#038; paste the article. See our Ts&#038;Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a17b63b0-2602-11e1-856e-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1gnz9y9eY Every Wednesday evening, an artsy Moscow café bursts with middle-aged women who look like accountants or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New MP For Siberia! (Compliments to Guido Fawkes for this!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Francis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of discussion about the flawed elections in Russia. Guido reckons their democracy can’t be that bad if they will elect a Playboy playmate has been elected as one of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia MPs in the Duma. Guido has no idea what her manifesto was but he’d vote for Maria [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vasily Grossman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Francis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would diminish Vasily Grossman’s gifts if we were to present him – as the BBC has tried to do in the publicity for the new radio dramatization of Life and Fate – as a stereotypically lonely victim of a brutal regime, a dissident author ruthlessly persecuted by the guardians of a totalitarian ideology. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia sparks outrage over Syria veto at UN</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Francis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia defended its decision to veto a UN resolution on Syria, insisting that its suggested amendments had been ignored, as it faced a torrent of outrage from the US, Europe and the Syrian opposition. The US described the Russian and Chinese veto during Tuesday’s UN vote as a slap in the face of the Syrian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Russia’s Liberals, Flickers of Hope Vanish</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Francis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW — When Lyubov Volkova, 63, woke up on Sunday, it was a few moments before she remembered what had happened. Related On Sunday she awoke to the reality that Vladimir V. Putin had, in effect, appointed himself president, and she knew that the aspirations of the Mikhail S. Gorbachev era had been snuffed out. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting museums of art and culture in St. Petersburg</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Francis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[St Petersburg is a beautiful city. If you visit this, the capital city of Russia, you will no doubt want to find out about its rich history. As well as museums of science and technology, history and politics and biographical ones, there are some great museums that are dedicated to art and culture. These are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian top job swap sparks Kremlin revolt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Francis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senior Russian government figures have rebelled against a deal between President Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, to switch jobs next year. The rebellion indicates that the handover arrangement will not be as smooth as the two leaders had anticipated. After Saturday’s announcement that Mr Medvedev would take over as prime minister, while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putin move risks public backlash</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Francis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than heralding a westward, liberalising trend in Russia’s post-communist history, Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency looks to be little more than a footnote in the decades-long “Putin era”. Vladimir Putin, who served as president from 2000 to 2008, could now rule for two more six-year presidential terms, giving him a quarter-century reign in power, as long [...]]]></description>
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