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I heard the bearded transves e won the Euro singing contest and all things Russia was booed. Interesting times.
Swearing off bad language: Russia bans cussing in films, books, music
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/06/world/...-swearing-law/
No more Rap in Russia. How fortunate
I heard the bearded transves e won the Euro singing contest and all things Russia was booed. Interesting times.
‘Putin’s Kleptocracy’
Her verdict is not merely that Putin’s boast of having built a potent, efficient state that fights for the little guy and against the venality of the powerful is bunk. Her bedrock claims are that the essential character of Putin’s system is colossal corruption and that he is a prime beneficiary. The thievery, she says, has made him fabulously rich, along with a coterie of trusted friends dating back to his days as a K.G.B. officer in Communist East Germany, then as first deputy mayor in 1990s St. Petersburg, then as head of the Federal Security Service.
the standard shenanigans of crooked regimes:
bribetaking from domestic and foreign companies seeking business permits;
kickbacks from inflated no-bid contracts for state projects;
privatization deals rigged to enrich cronies who will later be cash cows for the Kremlin;
illicit exports of raw materials purchased at state-subsidized prices and sold for a killing;
“donations” from oligarchs eager to keep feeding at the government’s trough; real estate scams yielding mega-profits and palatial homes;
money laundering;
election-fixing;
labyrinthine offshore accounts;
lucrative partnerships with the mob;
and the intimidation, even elimination, of would-be whistle-blowers.
Russia’s superrich must demonstrate absolute loyalty to the president. As Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other tycoons have discovered, the punishment for defiance is severe.
Dawisha won’t disappoint readers seeking examples of industrial-size sleaze. She reckons Putin’s private wealth at $40 billion and lists among his prized possessions yachts, planes and palaces — along with a $700,000 wris ch collection for good measure.
As for the Friends of Vladimir, Dawisha writes that “more than half of the $50 billion spent on the Sochi Olympics simply disappeared into the pockets of Putin’s cronies.” The Rotenberg brothers, Putin’s childhood chums, alone garnered $2.5 billion of the outlay for the games.
Russia’s roster of 110 billionaires remains remarkably static, even as the wealthy in other countries rise and fall. What these plutocrats share are longstanding, close connections to Putin. And not a few are former K.G.B. operatives themselves.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/30...isha.html?_r=0
excellence?
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"if regular Americans knew how rich ppl live in America, there would be riots on the street" - Chris Rock
I love that Russia is completely ed because OPEC is afraid of the US.
Enough to make one believe in karma.
Good point. Saudi Arabia is blowing Americans low gas price kisses while ramming Putin in his avocado.
Good luck putin
In Diplomatic Defeat, Putin Diverts Pipeline to Turkey
President Vladimir V. Putin said Monday that he would scrapRussia’s South Stream gas pipeline, a grandiose project that was once intended to establish the country’s dominance in southeastern Europe but instead fell victim toRussia’s increasingly toxic relationship with the West.
It was a rare diplomatic defeat for Mr. Putin, who said Russia would redirect the pipeline to Turkey. He painted the failure to build the pipeline as a loss for Europe and blamed Brussels for its intransigence.
The decision also seemed to be a rare victory for the European Union and the Obama administration, which have appeared largely impotent this year as Mr. Putin annexed Crimea and stirred rebellion in eastern Ukraine.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/02...th-stream.html
US gas reserves will be sought out by Europe.
Putin petrol threats have done exactly the opposite of what he has wanted long term.
Do Svidaniya
Global markets staggering
Petro Dollar celebrating
When the human race struggles, Americans celebrate
Like we don't?
What hole did you just come out of with Chris Rock?
Thank Putin for this one.
And are are blacks a part of the human race? Or really do feel sorry for their plight in America?
What was Americans business halfway across the Globe?
America is getting what it deserves for bringing them over. If White American males had a nut sack like the Argentinians, demographics would improve.
Eurpoean business was our business after WWII.
Do we need to go over this history lesson yet again?
Thats what I thought, crocodile tears for the racist.
The human race, like you care...
To benefit your British butt buddies
I'm White, of course I'm going to stand against a brown country like America
Oh.
So that's why we rebuild Japan and Germany?
So the human race you care about is white, make that clear to everyone to begin with.
Germany rebuilt themselves after WW1, they didn't need you. You sold them debt.
1. White
2. Asian
3. gap
4. Brown
5. that's it
Yes they did.
And then got it destroyed again during WWII.
Berlin pleaded for America.
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