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		<title>Wielding UN veto, Putin misreads the situation in Syria</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/05/putin-veto-russia-syria</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/05/putin-veto-russia-syria#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Russian government's PR machine went into overdrive to try and explain why president-in-wait Vladimir Putin vetoed a UN resolution against violence in Syria, which was a badly misjudged decision, writes <b>David Hearst</b>.]]></description>
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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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272423</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Putin a comic book hero to stir the Russian spirit</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/23/putin-a-comic-book-hero-to-stir-the-russian-spirit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/23/putin-a-comic-book-hero-to-stir-the-russian-spirit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Clayfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Russian election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=266626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin has been the subject of everything from pop songs to Chippendale-like wall calendars. Now his mock-heroics have become comic books, in the dangerous]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/23/putin-a-comic-book-hero-to-stir-the-russian-spirit/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is this the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin?</title>
		<link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8963219/Vladimir-Putin-would-lose-honest-presidential-election-says-former-Russian-PM.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8963219/Vladimir-Putin-would-lose-honest-presidential-election-says-former-Russian-PM.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=265811</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mikhail Kasyanov, Russian prime minister from 2000-2004, has come out swinging on the weekend with a damning appraisal of Vladimir Putin's character and political future, claiming Putin is 'running scared' and would lose an honest presidential election, reports <b>Andrew Osborn</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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/16/western-journalists-missing-the-real-russian-roulette/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Russian billionaire set to run against Putin</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/world/europe/billionaire-to-oppose-putin-in-russian-presidential-election.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/world/europe/billionaire-to-oppose-putin-in-russian-presidential-election.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=264823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[News that Russian billionaire Mikhail D. Prokhorov will challenge Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is the latest threat to the political status quo in Russia, reports <b>Ellen Barry</b> and <b>David M Herszenhorn</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/07/in-russia-a-bumper-season-for-authoritarian-self-sabotage/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/06/russian-election-putin-bids-for-third-term/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Labor&#8217;s contempt for parliament shows</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/25/labors-contempt-for-parliament-shows-through/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/25/labors-contempt-for-parliament-shows-through/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Tax Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=261401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps Australia had it right back in the 1960s and 1970s when the maximum personal income tax rate was over 60 percent without the rich having the benefit of dividend imputation.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/25/labors-contempt-for-parliament-shows-through/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Five bloody years as journalists, and freedom of speech, die</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/23/five-bloody-years-as-journalists-and-freedom-of-speech-die/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/23/five-bloody-years-as-journalists-and-freedom-of-speech-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Clayfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investigative journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=260841</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The International Freedom of Expression Exchange, which has labelled today the International Day to End Impunity, has profiled one slain journalist on its website every day this month.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/23/five-bloody-years-as-journalists-and-freedom-of-speech-die/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=255029</guid>
		<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>Abbott v Putin: it&#8217;s a man-off</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/19/abbott-v-putin-its-a-man-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/19/abbott-v-putin-its-a-man-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=253365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott and Vladimir Putin are reactionary populists who speak to their public through overtly physical demonstrations of manly prowess, writes <b>David Ritter</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/10/putin-apologists-line-up-to-justify-the-ruling-tandems-bitch-slap-to-democracy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Putin&#8217;s endorsement a surprise despite its inevitability</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/26/vladimir-putin-to-replace-dmitri-medvedev-inevitable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/26/vladimir-putin-to-replace-dmitri-medvedev-inevitable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Clayfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitri Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=249205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more surprising things about Russian President Dmitri Medvedev's endorsement of Vladimir Putin as his successor is how much it seemed to surprise the journalists covering it.

]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/26/vladimir-putin-to-replace-dmitri-medvedev-inevitable/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Putin to score quarter century in power</title>
		<link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ea4f7162-e69c-11e0-8c5e-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Z1IRxc63</link>
		<comments>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ea4f7162-e69c-11e0-8c5e-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Z1IRxc63#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=249235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin is likely to win two consecutive six year terms, which will mark 25 years in power. The announcement that he will be switching jobs with president Dmitry Medvedev confirms Medvedev was a stand-in, writes <b>Charles Clover</b> and <b>Catherine Belton</b>.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cameron goes to Russia to break four-year ice</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/15/cameron-goes-to-russia-to-break-four-year-ice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/15/cameron-goes-to-russia-to-break-four-year-ice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitri Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=247054</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The issue of Russian participation in Europe has been thrown into sharper relief this week by the visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron to Moscow.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/15/cameron-goes-to-russia-to-break-four-year-ice/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<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>
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		<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>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>Rundle: WikiLeaks &#8230; diplomacy out the door and instead, talk of execution</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/02/rundle-wikileaks-diplomacy-out-the-door-and-instead-talk-of-execution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/02/rundle-wikileaks-diplomacy-out-the-door-and-instead-talk-of-execution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Assange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mervyn King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=190257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin suggested that Julian Assange should be hunted down like Osama bin Laden and also charged with treason, a tough thing for a US court to hang on an Australian citizen.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/02/rundle-wikileaks-diplomacy-out-the-door-and-instead-talk-of-execution/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Putin, lover of Russia and furry animals</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-24-cutest-pictures-of-vladimir-putin-with-anim</link>
		<comments>http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-24-cutest-pictures-of-vladimir-putin-with-anim#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photo galleries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHOTO GALLERY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=186840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A most wonderful photo gallery of Russian PM Vladimir Putin posing with different animals. Yes, it's topless Putin swimming with dolphins, military Putin the horse-whisperer, wild Putin patting a tiger and many more goodies.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-24-cutest-pictures-of-vladimir-putin-with-anim/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gorbachev accuses Putin of blocking democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/world/europe/27russia.html?_r=2&#038;hp</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/world/europe/27russia.html?_r=2&#038;hp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>f79</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Gorbachev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=181585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, now 80, has spoken out against Vladimir Putin, arguing Putin's leadership is deliberately blocking the path to democracy that Gorbachev forged, reports <b>Clifford L. Jevy</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/world/europe/27russia.html?_r=2&#038;hp/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does either side really want to govern?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/27/does-either-side-really-want-to-govern/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/27/does-either-side-really-want-to-govern/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=167898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You have to start wondering whether either Labor or the Coalition really wants to become the government of Australia under the conditions where it would have to deal with independents and a Green.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/27/does-either-side-really-want-to-govern/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Flames, grain and drought: Russia grapples with historic heatwave</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/05/vladimir-putin-ban-grain-exports</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/05/vladimir-putin-ban-grain-exports#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heatwave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=162194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has announced a ban on grain exports in a preventative measure to stop price hikes and protect agriculture as the country grapples with its worst heatwave on record. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/05/vladimir-putin-ban-grain-exports/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The 40 top predators of press freedom</title>
		<link>http://en.rsf.org/predators2010-03-05-2010,37235.html</link>
		<comments>http://en.rsf.org/predators2010-03-05-2010,37235.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 00:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of the press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hu Jintao]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[press freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Press Freedom Day]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=135738</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>Reporters Without Borders</em> has named its annual list of press freedom "predators". This year, Russian PM Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao join Hall of Famers like Robert Mugabe and the Italian mafia.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://en.rsf.org/predators2010-03-05-2010,37235.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Warsaw mourns by the blaze of thousands of candles</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/12/warsaw-mourns-by-the-blaze-of-thousands-of-candles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/12/warsaw-mourns-by-the-blaze-of-thousands-of-candles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Tusk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lech Kaczynski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warsaw]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=129702</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The past two days in Poland have been a lesson in private and public mourning, as sirens wail and the street fill with thousands of candles, writes <b>Vince Chadwick</b> and <b>Paulina Olszanka</b> from Warsaw.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/12/warsaw-mourns-by-the-blaze-of-thousands-of-candles/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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