Russians Resist Braking for Blue-Light Big Shots

In most countries, only emergency vehicles, such as ambulances and fire engines, enjoy the heady power to exceed speed limits, run red lights, move against traffic, and compel other drivers to yield.

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UN report accuses Afghan MPs of torture and massacres

A controversial UN report that has been shelved for 18 months names and shames leading Afghan politicians and officials accused of orchestrating massacres, torture, mass rape and other war crimes.

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Lithuania's 'Stalin's World' Theme Park

Grutas Park, a quirky theme park dotted with relics of Lithuania's communist past, has become a major tourist attraction in this former Soviet republic.

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US 'Intoxicated' by Power: Gorbachev

Gorbachev critizises US for imposing its will on others, in a rather destructive way. You might call it "anti-Bush" comments, but it is certainly not anti-american, I think.

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The US goes after the last breath of Sovietism

They call him the last dictator in Europe, Alexander Lukashenko is expected to be reelected in Belarus, and so the U.S are threating sanctions.

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American Rhetoric: Margaret Thatcher - John Findley Foundation Lecture

This isn't new(s) - but I think it is compelling nonetheless. Thatcher's speech is long and broad and indicates well the state of things ten years ago. The uneasy uncertainty of "who will be the new threat?" has since been replaced by the terrible certainty of a definite enemy.

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Italian Panel: Soviets Behind Pope Attack

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Russians have food but are out of Salt

Russia still has food for sale. It's the salt that's gone missing. All over Moscow, shopkeepers have put up signs saying "No Salt." When a Russian can find salt, the price is up to 30 times higher than usual.

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Cold War-related excess deaths of Austrians, Bulgarians, Czechs, Estonians, Germans, Hungarians, Latvians & Ukrainians

Avoidable mortality (excess mortality) is the difference between the ACTUAL deaths in a country and the deaths EXPECTED for a peaceful, well-administered country with the same demographics.

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Latest UNICEF Report on 0.5 million pa Iraqi, Afghan infant deaths - Formal ICC US Coalition war crimes complaint lodged

According to the latest UNICEF report (2006), in 2004 the under-5 infant mortality was 122,000 in Occupied Iraq, 359,000 in Occupied Afghanistan and 1,000 in the occupying country Australia (noting that in 2004 the populations of these countries were 28.1 million, 28.6 million an

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Stalin's half-man, half-ape super-warriors

Apparently, back in the mid 1920s, Josef Stalin “ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes”. It's amazing how bits of history continue to surface after eight decades.

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