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	<title>Crikey &#187; Dmitry Medvedev</title>
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		<title>Moscow protests: authorities&#8217; gloves may come off</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/03/moscow-protests-authorities-gloves-may-come-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/03/moscow-protests-authorities-gloves-may-come-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Clayfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Russian election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alexey navalny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Gorbachev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muammar Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The protests are small enough, isolated enough, and moderate enough in their aims to fizzle out of their own accord, writes <b>Matthew Clayfield</b>, a freelance correspondent in Vladivostok.]]></description>
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		<title>Crooks, thieves, ex-finance minister and a blogger in Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/10/crooks-thieves-ex-finance-minister-and-a-blogger-in-russia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/10/crooks-thieves-ex-finance-minister-and-a-blogger-in-russia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Russian election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alexey navalny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russian president vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=267656</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, United Russia has come to be known throughout the country as the party of crooks and thieves, writes freelance foreign correspondent <b>Matthew Clayfield</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Western journalists missing the real Russian roulette</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/16/western-journalists-missing-the-real-russian-roulette/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/16/western-journalists-missing-the-real-russian-roulette/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Clayfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Russian election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russian democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=265590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Moscow-based Western correspondents spent the better part of this year holding out hope that Dmitri Medvedev might remain in the Kremlin for a second term and continue pushing his pseudo-liberal platform.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Russia, a bumper season for authoritarian self-sabotage</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/07/in-russia-a-bumper-season-for-authoritarian-self-sabotage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/07/in-russia-a-bumper-season-for-authoritarian-self-sabotage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Clayfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kremlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=263781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Russian nationalists have been in the news as of late. And there's the perfect demonstration of the bifurcation of Russian nationalism into its two distinct halves.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Russia, laughter, even in a paddy wagon, is the best medicine</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/06/russian-election-putin-bids-for-third-term/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/06/russian-election-putin-bids-for-third-term/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Clayfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Russian election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russian democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=263515</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Putin's dismantling of Russian democracy was so brazen, and his apparatchiks' justifications for it so transparently disingenuous, that it was hard not to laugh in disbelief.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>A touch of badminton with Putin</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/26/putin-medvedev-badminton/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/26/putin-medvedev-badminton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[badminton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Russian President Dmitry Medvedev posted a rather bizarre video on the official Kremlin website showing him talking about badminton and then having a hit with president-in-waiting Vladimir Putin. While they obviously aren&#8217;t a direct translation, the subtitles done by Deadspin are rather amusing &#8230; The video isn&#8217;t embeddable, so click here to view it.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Putin apologists line up to justify the ruling tandem&#8217;s bitch slap to democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/10/putin-apologists-line-up-to-justify-the-ruling-tandems-bitch-slap-to-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/10/putin-apologists-line-up-to-justify-the-ruling-tandems-bitch-slap-to-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Clayfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=251760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Commentators and analysts have been lining up, not only to explain the ruling tandem's bitch-slap to democracy with Putin's return to the Kremlin, but also, worse, to justify and excuse it.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>It was 20 years ago today &#8212; remembering the Soviet coup</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/19/it-was-20-years-ago-today-remembering-the-soviet-coup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/19/it-was-20-years-ago-today-remembering-the-soviet-coup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Hawke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boris Yeltsin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall of the berlin wall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Keating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president mikhail gorbachev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soviet Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=242156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The fall of the Berlin Wall is probably the thing people remember most, but the Soviet empire, truncated and divided, limped on for another two years. It was the August coup, 20 years ago today, that really finished it off.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>How does Russia&#8217;s president dance?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/21/russiandance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/21/russiandance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 03:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Glorious footage has emerged of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev dancing with a group of friends to a song called American Boy. There&#8217;s a lot of robot-style stamping back and forth and weird hip thrusting from the prez.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Richardson: tension at the top in Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/22/richardson-tension-at-the-top-in-russia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/22/richardson-tension-at-the-top-in-russia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=212218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's a fairly widespread view that what they have is just a well-honed "good cop, bad cop" routine, in which Medvedev presents the friendly face of authoritarianism while Putin actually runs the show.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/22/richardson-tension-at-the-top-in-russia/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Liberals providing a reason for the flood tax</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/11/liberals-providing-a-reason-for-the-flood-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/11/liberals-providing-a-reason-for-the-flood-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flood levy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=202812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The arguing within the Liberal Party over what programs should be cut to finance the cost of Queensland's flood damage repairs proves again that politicians find it easier to spend money than save it.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Move over Obama, Russia&#8217;s back</title>
		<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-19/russias-new-push-for-power/full/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-19/russias-new-push-for-power/full/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyrgyzstan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyrgyzstan uprising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=132559</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If the Kyrgyzstan uprising proved anything, it's that Russia still has major dominance of the Eurasia region. Barack Obama may have declared the start of a new era for US-Russian relations, but this is vintage Russian power play.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton: One step closer to a nuclear-free world</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/apr/07/world-nuclear-danger-treaty-america</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/apr/07/world-nuclear-danger-treaty-america#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=129261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The new US-Russia nuclear treaty means world is now not only a safer place, it has sent a clear "up yours" to Iran and North Korea, writes US Secretary of State <b>Hillary Clinton</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>When Australians drink like Russians, it’s time for action</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/when-australians-drink-like-russians-it%e2%80%99s-time-for-action/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/when-australians-drink-like-russians-it%e2%80%99s-time-for-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol related problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/when-australians-drink-like-russians-it%e2%80%99s-time-for-action/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pointing the finger elsewhere is no longer an option on alcohol policy, writes <b>Michael Moore</b>. Even Russia has declared a major campaign on curbing alcohol-related harm.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>PHOTO GALLERY: From Russia with love: Putin and Medvedev</title>
		<link>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/category/section/photo_essay</link>
		<comments>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/category/section/photo_essay#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photo galleries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=87883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A hilarious yet surprisingly revealing photo gallery, featuring candid moments between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and PM Vladimir Putin. Is their bro-mance on on the skids? ]]></description>
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		<title>Does Putin want to be President again?</title>
		<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125268977664203755.html</link>
		<comments>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125268977664203755.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=86124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After serving a little over a year as Russia's Prime Minister, former Russian President Vladimir Putin looks have sit sights set back on the country's top job, announcing he may run again in 2012.]]></description>
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s new war on drinking</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1917974,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1917974,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Russian President Dmitri Medvedev is taking on the unenviable task of breaking the country's vodka-guzzling ways, in an attempt to lower the staggeringly high level of alcoholism and alcohol-related deaths and illness. Can the convince the country to sober up?]]></description>
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		<title>History not on Obama&#8217;s side when it comes to Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/08/obama-medvedev-putin-communism-opinions-columnists-russia.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/08/obama-medvedev-putin-communism-opinions-columnists-russia.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The bulk of Obama's visit to Russia was a mix of visionary kitsch, caviar and feckless horse-trading, says <strong>Claudia Rosett</strong>. He also called for common ground and progress toward a shared future. But that vision is flawed.]]></description>
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		<title>Political Fashion Semiotics 101: the implications of politicians’ clothes</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/09/political-fashion-semiotics-101-the-implications-of-politicians%e2%80%99-clothes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/09/political-fashion-semiotics-101-the-implications-of-politicians%e2%80%99-clothes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Campbell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong Il]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malia Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politicians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev thrilled and horrified the blogosphere by wearing jeans and a designer blazer to a dinner with Barack Obama. <b>Mel Campbell</b> does some further political fashion analysis.]]></description>
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		<title>Dmitry in denim: should Medvedev have worn jeans?</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/08/dmitry-medvedev-denim-jeans-debate</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/08/dmitry-medvedev-denim-jeans-debate#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jeans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=72126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On a double date with the Obamas, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev wore a pair of blue denims and a pinstripe designer blazer. But what did its <em>mean</em>? asks <strong>Luke Harding</strong>.]]></description>
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		<title>US and Russia strike an arms deal</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/world/europe/07prexy.html?_r=2&#038;hp</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/world/europe/07prexy.html?_r=2&#038;hp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev have reached a preliminary agreement on cutting both country's nuclear weapons stockpiles, in  what the <em>NYT</em> calls "one of the most significant arms control treaties since the end of the cold war".]]></description>
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		<title>Russia on the slippery slope to autocracy</title>
		<link>http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1016/42/377426.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1016/42/377426.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 01:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Stalin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kremlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Kremlin has been gradually taking away Russians' constitutional rights over the last eight years, and are now literally rewriting the history books to conform to their worldview, says <b>Vladimir Ryzhkov</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Kremlin commission to protect its version of history</title>
		<link>http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/600/42/377270.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/600/42/377270.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 06:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=60319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the creation of a new commission tasked with countering attempts to rewrite history to the detriment of Russia's interests, the Kremlin. Sound familiar?]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not democracy in Russia, but does it matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/04/its-not-democracy-in-russia-but-does-it-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/04/its-not-democracy-in-russia-but-does-it-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dictatorship of the proletariat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rough approximation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russian democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How concerned we are by Russia's recent flawed election, and therefore what attitude we take towards Russia in the future, will largely depend on what we think democracy is for, writes <b>Charles Richardson</b>.]]></description>
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