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The Sunday Sports Section: Putin + Footlball = Franco?

2008-07-05 00:25:52 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...football frenzy and how it apes the Franco dictatorship, from the Moscow Times For three glorious weeks, football ruled in Europe. But that is all behind us now. Spain won the championship, and...
 
Tags: team, soviet team, team lost, soviet, football, football ruled, football fever, national team, spain
 
 
 
 
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Russia's Football Diplomacy

2008-05-12 16:01:03 by Robert Amsterdam in Robert Amsterdam
 
...football, it's got nothing to do with politics. ... Maybe the Champions League final can help to unfreeze diplomatic relations between our two countries. '' OK, that's a breathtaking spin ... so...
 
Tags: fans, petersburg fans, fans set foot, british fans, rowdy sports fans, russia, shield british fans, british, british council
 
 
 
 
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EDITORIAL: More Sports Humiliation for Putin's Russia

2008-06-29 12:23:27 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...football squad had defeated tiny Netherlands using not a Russian but a Dutch coach, we must have missed it. Only in Russia does reaching the semi-finals of a regional sports tournament qualify...
 
Tags: russia, sports, russian, russian solution, half russia, real russian, russian football, putin, russian nationalists
 
 
 
 
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Putin's $40 billion fortune

2007-12-20 20:07:00 by AKULA in From Russia with Lies
 
...football club who is close to Putin and the Yeltsin family. Other members are Viktor Cherkesov, the head of the federal drug control service, and Alisher Usmanov, an Uzbek-born billionaire ...
 
Tags: putin, putin leaves power, named putin, vladimir vladimirovich putin, putin era, putin prepares, monday putin, misunderstood putin, power putin
 
 
 
 
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A clean sweep for Putin cronies

2007-11-11 04:14:00 by Domain Names 4 Sale 24-7 in Russia News Watch
 
...football club. Insiders say that soliciting rival bids was never considered Gazprom, which some describe as a state within a state and a powerful tool of Russian foreign policy, is now worth...
 
Tags: putin, kremlin bigwigs, kremlin, pro-kremlin party, kremlin control, kremlin advisers, head, head russias, fierce kremlin critic
 
 
 
 
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Steve LeVine's "Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia"

2008-06-22 14:14:07 by Robert Amsterdam in Robert Amsterdam
 
...football image, the particles knocking over cells like a rampaging fullback flattening every defender in his path. All said, polonium-210 was many times more hazardous than poisons usually...
 
Tags: levine, steve levine, russia, putin, levine confesses, levine writes, levine ventures, information levine uncovers, forbes russia
 
 
 
 
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EDITORIAL: Putin's Russia, Heading for the Abyss

2008-06-17 21:30:19 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...football side, coached by a Dutchman It seems Russians have decided that letting Americans do their winning for them is the best way to achieve glory, so they're doing it again. Now the Russian...
 
Tags: russia, block russia, russia continues, russia choose, russia feels, russia imagines, neo-soviet russia, putin, aggressive russian moves
 
 
 
 
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Putin: Link Alaska & Siberia!

2008-04-01 10:23:00 by Will Baird in The Dragon's Tales
 
...football club and governor of Chukotka, has invested 80m in the worlds largest drill but has denied that it is linked with the development Proposals for such a tunnel were approved by Tsar...
 
Tags: 64-mile tunnel, tunnel, russian, black sea resort, chelsea football club, russian president, russia, 20th century, america
 
 
 
 
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Today in Russian Business - Dec 3rd, 2008

2008-12-03 12:06:00 by Editor in Robert Amsterdam
 
...football fans are lacking a team to support as the financial crisis forces existing teams to merge. Norilsk Nickel's Russia spending will fall by almost a quarter next year. Rusal wants the...
 
Tags: crisis rescue package, crisis, crisis result, financial crisis, financial crisis forces, government, rescue, vladimir putin, anti-crisis program
 
 
 
 
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Russia Wins by Learning from Foreigners

2008-07-01 21:28:35 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...football team who embarrassed established European powers and thrilled fans in Austria and Switzerland Despite its loss to Spain in the semifinal, Russia's fantastic performance at the European...
 
Tags: football team, team, russia, football, football victories, world hockey championship, world, world war, world cup