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...bipolar future with Russia and the United States as opposed master puppeteers. The duel of course, is passé today. Russia is technically a democracy, a supporter of free markets which strives to join the World Trade Organization, and the host of the G8 summit this July in St. Petersburg. Especially in this context, the West must remember that nothing has really changed since the times of either Peter the Great or Lenin: Russia cares about its pride, not about global security. Amidst the rhetorical battle on the prospects of an American strike, Iran remains the world?...
Thirty-year-old Misha Borisovich Vainberg, the hero of Absurdistan, is in every way and dimension an exaggerated character: grossly fat, filthy rich, loudly sentimental and operatically miserable as only a Russian can be. Vainberg lives in St. Petersburg, but his spiritual home is America, which he adores beyond all reason. Unfortunately, he's stuck in Russia because of trouble with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Pines Misha: "I am an American impounded in a Russian's body...
...force. He is not a menace just to his own country; he is a menace to the world. If the international community wants to defuse this menace, the Belarusian issue must be brought to the U.N. Security Council and raised at the G-8 summit, planned in St. Petersburg, Russia in July. Otherwise, this summit will be just so much mockery of the G-8 principles...
...With an upcoming G-8 summit of Western leaders scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg, anger in Belarus is only beginning to build-not just against Lukashenko, and Putin, too, but also towards the West's lip service to freedom and democratic values. "Does it make any sense to have been carrying the now three-year-long bloody war in the Middle East for the sake of freedom and democracy-and let Putin and his proxy Lukashenko stifle these values right out here in Europe in the meantime? " asks Andrei Sannikov, International Coordinator for Chapter 97, Belarus' respected human...
...Japan kids dance in them, figure-skating style. In Canada they glide in them to whack a street-hockey puck. And from London to St. Petersburg, preteens use them as alternative transportation. They're Heelys, and the brand is on the move. But how does a company with $40 million in annual revenues and a slender marketing budget expand to more than 60 countries in less than five years without getting lost? HSL Inc., launched in late 2000 with one product, posted U.S. sales of more than $36 million last year--an increase of 250%--and about $2.4 million...