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							<title><![CDATA[Why Russia Loves Syria]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/02/why-is-russia-supporting-syria-s-president-bashir-assad.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Owen Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When it comes to standing by old friends, Moscow has an unrivaled record. Saddam Hussein, Hosni Mubarak, Muammar Gaddafi, deposed Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and soon-to-step-down Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh&mdash;Russia staunchly defended them all, right up to and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Return of President Putin]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/24/putin-to-run-for-president-of-russia-again-in-elections-next-year.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Owen Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the new Russia&mdash;same as the old Russia. Vladimir Putin, Russia&rsquo;s once and future president, announced Saturday that he was going to stand for a third term as Russia&rsquo;s president in elections next year, raising the possibility of two new terms in the Kremlin...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Backward, Russia!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/27/khodorkovsky-conviction-shows-russian-system-still-rotten.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Owen Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like many things in modern Russia, today's conviction of jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky on fresh charges of embezzlement is somehow both shocking and unsurprising. Unsurprising because vanishingly few in Russia believed that Khodorkovsky would be declared not guilty. Shocking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin's Grand Illusions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/19/putin-s-grand-illusions.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Owen Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks Vladimir Putin has been busy in many heroic  roles. First Putin the conservation warrior joined naturalists chasing a  gray whale across the North Pacific, and fired a skin-sampling harpoon  into it with a crossbow. Next the fearless leader dropped a water bomb ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin Plays Dr. No for U.S.]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Missile Shield Decision Was Not a Retreat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/215620</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Owen Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The missile-defense shield was a fantasy to begin with. So why did Russia and Eastern Europe obsess over it?Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasBarack Obama has finally called time on the Bush administration's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Realists Are Worried About McCain]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/160069</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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