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Pravda tells us you can eat fried potatoes on your diet.

Truly this is a victory for us all. I’m going to ignore this advice but it is nice to know that fried potatoes can be a part of a weight-loss regimen. Hmmm.

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Japanese defense spending only behind that of the US and China?

Japan, a pacifist country that has had a rough year so far, apparently has the third largest defense budget in the world. It is speculated that this posture is maintained because of disputed islands with its neighbors, such as Diaoyu Islands with China and the Kuril Islands with Russia, and that Japan’s increasing involvement with […]

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The US credit downgrade and its impact on speculative markets.

The downgrade of US credit by Standard and Poor to AA+ from AAA really did not have as large an impact as feared but nonetheless served as a kind of wake-up call for the international financial system. The US’s debt market remains the world’s largest, safest and most liquid, presenting the best investment for foreign […]

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August 1991.

Was the suppression of the coup against Gorbachev a victory for democracy? Twenty years after the events of August 1991, many Russians’ views of these events have changed considerably. The Levada group which conducts polling in Russia on the issue recorded that one quarter of the population saw the suppression of the coup as a […]

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When she’s gone, she’ll go with a bang.

How the sun is going to explode in the far future and what will happen to the solar system as a result. Good stuff.

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Pravda claims that Turkey is trying to push Syria’s Bashar al-Assad’s regime to collapse.

Pravda surmises that if Syria’s Bashar al-Assad were to accept Turkey’s demands to cease actions against demonstrators and to welcome free elections that the regime would certainly collapse. Pravda’s Sergei Balmasov writes that the ‘peaceful demonstrators’ are armed with Kalashnikov rifles and that Turkey is actively exacerbating the situation on the ground in order to […]

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