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Auto Industry 1991-2000 - Kommersant


However, there are prospects for the domestic auto industry: more and more cars are being sold in our country, and production is correspondingly increasing, with annual growth around 10%. It is quite possible that even if the auto industry does not ...


8 Jan 2009

Dictator Stalin voted third-greatest Russian - Associated Press


MOSCOW (AP) -- Television viewers have voted Soviet dictator Josef Stalin - who sent millions to their deaths in the Great Purge of the 1930s - Russia's third-greatest historical figure. Rights activists have blasted Stalin's inclusion in the 90-day ...


8 Jan 2009

Bigwigs Abroad - Kommersant


Vladimir Ilich Lenin never made a single trip abroad: by the time the Bolshevik regime started to receive recognition, he was only nominally the head of the party and government. His successors traveled abroad, and each trip had its own distinctive ...


8 Jan 2009

Where have you gone, David E. Lilienthal? - Dubuque Telegraph Herald


The incoming president has stated that he will appoint a "czar" to head the multi-trillion-dollar efforts to get America back on its feet. We have had a pretty dim record of appointing people with the title of "czar." Besides, the last Russian czar ...


8 Jan 2009

CapeCodToday Blog Chowder - Cape Cod Today


Chef John is all you say and then some.. having shared the kitchen with him for the last 2 1/2 years, and guesting on his show.. He'll be the 1st to admit he's a salesman 1st, an actor 2nd, portraying as a Chef 3rd! He's hilarious, self deprecating ...


8 Jan 2009

Hu¡¦s speech just more of the same - Taipei Times


On Dec. 31, Chinese President Hu Jintao (­JÀAÀÜ) gave a speech in Beijing to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the ¡§Message to Compatriots in Taiwan.¡¨ The basic spirit of the speech was the same as 30 years ago and was aimed at getting ...


8 Jan 2009

Background Note: Poland (Scoop.co.nz)


YAHOO - Background Note: Poland (Scoop.co.nz)Geography Area: 312,683 sq. km. (120,725 sq. mi.); about the size of New Mexico. Cities (2004): Capital --Warsaw (pop. 1,690,821). Other cities --Lodz (776,297), Krakow (757,957), Wroclaw (636,854), Poznan (573,003), Gdansk (460,524).


8 Jan 2009

Holocaust by hunger: An act of genocide? (KYIV Post)


YAHOO - Holocaust by hunger: An act of genocide? (KYIV Post)Photo from M. Zheleznyak collection, courtesty of the Kyiv-based Institute of National Memory. Villagers of Udachne, in the Donetsk region, near an earth house in 1934.


8 Jan 2009

Cuba: 50 years of revolution (Morning Star)


YAHOO - Cuba: 50 years of revolution (Morning Star)As Cuba commemorates the day 50 years ago when the Caravan of Liberty rolled into Havana, JOHN HAYLETT charts the fall and rise of a historic revolution.


8 Jan 2009

Obama sounds economic warning (The Politico)


YAHOO - Obama sounds economic warning (The Politico)The president-elect is cautioning that the jobless rate could exceed 10 percent without the government stimulus.


8 Jan 2009

Ten things you need to know about Arsenal target Andrei Arshavin (Daily Mail)


YAHOO - Ten things you need to know about Arsenal target Andrei Arshavin (Daily Mail)Andrei Arshavin could soon be appearing at a Barclays Premier League ground near you, with Arsenal taking a look at Russia's star of Euro 2008.


8 Jan 2009

Nepal's Maoist rulers rile Hindus (Asia Times)


YAHOO - NepalKATHMANDU - Nepal's first elected prime minister, the Maoist leader of the interim coalition formed last August, remains in hot water due to his enthusiastic involvement with the management of a major Hindu shrine.


8 Jan 2009

Old Major and Vladimir Lenin « Ms. Gutierrez’s 8th Grade English


However, the man Old Major represents, Vladimir Lenin, lived quite a few years after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia which took place in 1917. Skim through the following link and identify any similarities you notice between the two. ...


8 Jan 2009

LENIN'S TOMB: UNRWA spokesperson statement on Israeli retraction ...


UNRWA spokesperson statement on Israeli retraction of mortar fire claims posted by lenin. Just so this doesn't disappear down the memory hole entirely:. Labels: gaza, hamas, invasion, Israel, palestine, school, UNRWA, war crimes ...


8 Jan 2009

Welsh Ramblings: Carwyn reaching out West


Lenin, any news on the crowd for this humdinger? Still I bet it beat the crowd of his two staff members that he gave his last "lecture" to. He got a front page out of that one as well! I think it was a treatise on marmalade versus jam. ...


8 Jan 2009

LENIN'S TOMB: We take the greatest care...


We take the greatest care... posted by lenin. Via Jamie, who also cites an Amnesty report that accuses Israel of killing civilians on purpose, this astonishing Telegraph article reports an act of organised sadism: ...


7 Jan 2009

LENIN'S TOMB: A lie you weren't supposed to believe


A lie you weren't supposed to believe posted by lenin. Let's be clear about this. On 6 January, three UN-run schools in Gaza were attacked by Israeli forces, not just one. What is more, the previous day an Israeli bombing of a UN school ...


7 Jan 2009

LENIN'S TOMB: Government attempts to block Gaza march


Government attempts to block Gaza march posted by lenin. From the Stop the War Coalition:. GOVERNMENT BLOCKS GAZA DEMONSTRATION AT ISRAELI EMBASSY Ministers are obstructing the holding of a national demonstration on Saturday ...


7 Jan 2009