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		<title>Churov &amp; Election 2012</title>
		<link>http://putinania.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/churov-election-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Election 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://putinania.wordpress.com/?p=827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The head of Russia’s Central Elections Commission Vladimir Churov came out to talk to Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) on Thursday.  He once again defended his role as Commissioner by claiming very little fraud occurred in the December Duma elections. Churov also repeated his claim that they are preparing to install transparent ballot boxes in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=putinania.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9172015&amp;post=827&amp;subd=putinania&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>United Russia&#8217;s Prospects for the 2011 Duma Election</title>
		<link>http://putinania.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/820/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://putinania.wordpress.com/?p=820</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even Dmitry Rogozin, Russia&#8217;s envoy to NATO apologized for the poor timing of the announcement.  While Rogozin’s Twitter comment may have been a joke, Dmitry Medvedev’s announcement yesterday was not.  Looking nervously at the camera, the President of Russia stated that he was instructing the military to ramp up, and prepare for a missile defense [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=putinania.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9172015&amp;post=820&amp;subd=putinania&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marina Litvinovich</title>
		<link>http://putinania.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/marina-litvinovich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Biographies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://putinania.wordpress.com/?p=815</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[has created a website called Election 2012.  On it she looks at members of the Russian Government, their ties to one another, their ties to big business/oligarchs, their past associations with the business community, etc.  It&#8217;s all very interesting, and I am hoping that it will aid my own research, and serve to make this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=putinania.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9172015&amp;post=815&amp;subd=putinania&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kudrin vs Sechin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Clan War]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexei Kudrin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deputy prime minister]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a story floating in and out of Russian politics for a while regarding former Finance Minister and Deputy PM Alexei Kudrin.  It went like this: Kudrin was the leader of the economic liberals, and a counter-balance to Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, and his clan, the siloviki. And, the narrative continued, Alexei [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=putinania.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9172015&amp;post=811&amp;subd=putinania&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reshuffling</title>
		<link>http://putinania.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/reshuffling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fursenko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Golikova]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Levitin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mutko]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://putinania.wordpress.com/?p=807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After Poltavchenko&#8217;s move to Petersburg this week, and with rumours of another reshuffle taking place soon (either before or after the elections), the thought occurred to me: what if every time you reshuffle, your group gets weaker?  It doesn’t matter how small the reshuffle is.  Even if you only lose one person, you still have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=putinania.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9172015&amp;post=807&amp;subd=putinania&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>United Russia</title>
		<link>http://putinania.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/united-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Zhukov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Kozak]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sergei Shoigu]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://putinania.wordpress.com/?p=797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[United Russia is still in the process of holding their &#8220;primaries&#8221; in order to create their party lists for their big conference in September (as far as I can determine, this is something like National Conventions in the US, but probably not as fun).  The Moscow Times had a piece today outlining how the primaries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=putinania.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9172015&amp;post=797&amp;subd=putinania&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Commentary</title>
		<link>http://putinania.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/no-commentary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrei Piontkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authoritarian regimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communist party.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[golden dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mid 1980s]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://putinania.wordpress.com/?p=786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This next piece needs to be shared in its entirety without any of my own opinions attached to it, I think.  The only thing I will say is that Andrei Piontkovsky’s ending prediction came as something of a surprise. A fundamental difference between developments in Russia 20 years ago and in Central Europe and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=putinania.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9172015&amp;post=786&amp;subd=putinania&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ken Doll Putin</title>
		<link>http://putinania.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/ken-doll-putin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Election 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://putinania.wordpress.com/?p=784</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve given up imagining what VVP will think of for his next PR stunt.  In one sense, it is getting a little ridiculous.  But on the other hand&#8230; VVP exploring ancient caves AND diving for treasure (albeit in 2 meter deep water)!!!  How can it get better?  My doll &#8220;action figure&#8221; Putin keeps getting more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=putinania.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9172015&amp;post=784&amp;subd=putinania&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Question:</title>
		<link>http://putinania.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://putinania.wordpress.com/?p=781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is this Misha Prokhorov&#8217;s campaign strategy?  If it is, I&#8217;m not convinced it is a good one, and I don&#8217;t see it ending well.  But maybe he just wants to get his name out there.  In that case, it may actually work.  He&#8217;ll just need to move from place to place accusing officials of conspiring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=putinania.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9172015&amp;post=781&amp;subd=putinania&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Page</title>
		<link>http://putinania.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/facebook-page/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started a Facebook page to share some articles, pictures, and videos that I find.  It is also called Putinania.  I hope that you will check it out, and comment on it, and share your own thoughts, and ideas.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=putinania.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9172015&amp;post=777&amp;subd=putinania&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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