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26 Jul 2010 20:22

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Biz: BP drama: Tony Hayward’s heading to Russia – with his pension!

  • $930k the amount he gets from his pension when he quits in October
  • 1 yearthe amount of salary he takes with him, or $1.4 million dollars
  • $15Mthe total value of his pension – plus his life back! source
  • » Plus, there’s more: Hayward also has a sizable amount of stock, and whenever he cashes that out, he’ll be an extremely rich man – he’ll be worth several million.
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08 Jul 2010 08:56

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U.S., World: Russia and the U.S. all ready to exchange some spies!

  • If at last he is freed — not in the way we wanted, because we wanted him to restore his good name, but it is difficult to do it given our judicial system — at least he will be freed in this way. If he leaves today, it will happen quietly.
  • Lawyer Anna Stavitskaya • Regarding her client, Russian scientist Igor V. Sutyagin, and his possible pending release as soon as today. The scientist, currently being held for treason in Russia, will be reportedly exchanged for ten reported Russian spies as part of a prisoner swap. The U.S. and Russia have neither confirmed nor denied it, although it’s been widely reported and Stavitskaya says Sutyagin verbally agreed to the exchange. source
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02 Jul 2010 11:18

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U.S., World: Anna Chapman’s husband: The spy who loved me ditched me

The former husband of Anna Chapman, left, says that she went from carefree to materialistic and met with a lot of Russian dudes. It was weird. source
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30 Jun 2010 11:01

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U.S.: New Russian spies more boring, hotter than Cold War-era spies

  • Gotta love Russian spies. Especially spies who grow lettuce in their gardens. And raise kids. And do things that normal families would do. And one femme fatale, Anna Chapman (can’t forget about her). We’re pretty sure she’s the redhead on the left. source
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28 Jun 2010 22:03

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U.S., World: Russian spies! Intrigue! Is this the Cold War or something?

  • It’s right out of a John le Carré novel. It will interesting to see how it plays out next couple of days and weeks from an international point of view and law enforcement point of view.
  • Former US attorney Stan Twardy • Describing the events that led to the U.S. arrest of ten reported Russian spies. You know, spies from one of our allies. What’s funny is that Obama was hanging out at Ray’s Hell Burger with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, the FBI was very close to catching the spies – some of whom had been in the U.S. for a long time. (Disclosure: Julius is a spy. And since we’re disclosing it, a not very good one.) source
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13 Jun 2010 12:16

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Culture: 100 Years of Propaganda: Art + Message = Huge impact

  • Smashing Magazine has this amazing gallery of various works of propaganda over the last 100 years. This particular piece, from Russia, is the work of El Lissitzky, whose works greatly influenced the art world in general. source
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03 Jun 2010 21:59

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World: Russian Pretendonauts: Let’s pretend to go to Mars, guys!

  • 6 number of “spacemen” who will pretend to go to Mars; playtime!
  • 250 the number of days the crew will be pretending to go to Mars
  • 30 the number of days they’ll pretend to be on Mars’ surface
  • 220 the number of days it will take them to get “back” to Earth source
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18 May 2010 11:04

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U.S., World: Is the U.S. buying Iran’s uranium-enrichment plan?

  • NO it and other nations are gonna put sanctions on ’em source
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11 May 2010 10:50

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World: Russia’s deadly mine blast a major, unfortunate tragedy

  • 52 have died and 38 are still missing after the blasts source
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09 May 2010 11:16

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World: Russia’s got deadly mine blasts of its own to deal with

  • 12 miners have already
    died in the dual blasts
    at Russia’s largest coal mine last night
  • 41 were wounded in the blast, near the western Siberian town of Mezhdurechensk
  • 64 miners are still stuck,
     along with 19 rescuers
    who were trying to get
    them out source
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