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This Man Decides Whether Russians Consume Moldovan Wine, Lithuanian Cheese, and Ukrainian Chocolate
Russians learn to beat the heat (or don't)
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This Man Decides Whether Russians Consume Moldovan Wine, Lithuanian Cheese, and Ukrainian Chocolate
You may not have heard of Gennady Onishchenko, but if his own accounts are to be believed, he's the Russian government official who singlehandedly averts major public health crises posed by foreign countries' dangerously lax and unsophisticated...
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Thu, Oct 10 2013 11:00 AM
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Russians learn to beat the heat (or don't)
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Russians have long since thought of ways to cope with the frigid cold (think over-buttered bread and over-flowing shot glasses), but weathering the blistering heat is a newer challenge...
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Tue, Jul 07 2010 8:57 AM
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'Muscovite code' tells foreigners to blend in
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 As foreign moles in suburban America, the "Murphy's" of Montclair -- two of the recently exposed Russian "illegals" (read: spies with boring long-term assignments...
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Thu, Jul 07 2010 10:26 AM
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France honors world's worst sculptor
Zurab Tsereteli, pretty much the raison d'ĂȘtre for our World's Ugliest Statues photo essay, has just been awarded France's highest decoration: Zurab Tsereteli , 76, a controversial sculptor known for his grandiose work, was to receive the...
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Tue, May 05 2010 10:57 AM
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Russian Communists: Ban Avatar!
U.S. conservatives have blasted James Cameron's blockbuster space epic Avatar for depicting U.S. marines as villains, others have critiqued it as a patronizing tale of a white American rescuing a native people from the ravages of imperialism, but...
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Tue, Jan 01 2010 9:33 AM
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You down with KGB? Putin on hip-hop culture
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently attended a rap battle sponsored by the Russian government to combat drug use. Vladimir Vladimirovich shared his thoughts on hip-hop culture and clapped awkwardly, but unfortunately chose not to drop a verse. Read...
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Fri, Nov 11 2009 3:18 PM
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