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							<title><![CDATA[Putin's Shaky Tsardom]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/putins-shaky-tsardom</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Lipman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost fourteen hundred reporters gathered in the Kremlin on Wednesday for Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s annual press conference. The most anxious ones held signs with the name of their region, their outlet, or the topic of their question. Each time a lucky one was picked, the signs went down,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin's Syrian Revenge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/putins-syrian-revenge</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Lipman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced that four Russian warships in the Caspian Sea had fired sea-based cruise missiles at eleven ISIS targets in Syria and destroyed them. Russian air strikes intensified and, according to Syrian officials, enabled their ground...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin's Fear of the Internet]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/04/putins-fear-of-the-internet.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Lipman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the mid-nineteen-sixties, Brezhnev&rsquo;s Soviet Union introduced a law aimed at stifling ideological dissent. Article 190, Part 1 of the Soviet Criminal Code criminalized &ldquo;the dissemination of the intentionally false insinuations defiling the Soviet state and social...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin's Nationalist Strategy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/03/putins-nationalist-strategy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Lipman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What is happening in the Crimean peninsula is not a war, exactly&mdash;or not if bloodshed is the standard for war. It is an ominous, creeping occupation (for now) of a region of sovereign Ukraine by the Russian armed forces at the order of the Kremlin. So far there have been no...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Russia, Rumblings of Discontent]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-russia-growing-rumblings-of-discontent/2011/04/06/AF1KFy3C_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Lipman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For three months the approval ratings of Russia&rsquo;s top leaders have  declined &mdash; a trend that is generating talk here of a looming political  crisis. Recently, two thinkers from the prominent Center for Strategic  Research, Mikhail Dmitriev and Sergei Belanovsky, joined the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Discontent Rising in Russia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/08/AR2010080802394.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Lipman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the past year Triumphal'naya Ploshchad, a downtown square in the Russian capital, has become the site of standoffs between the government and a small political group called Strategy 31. On the last day of each month with 31 days, the group stages a rally to demand that the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin's Puppet Press]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051902236.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Masha Lipman</author>
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