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...Russia's leaders are getting used to cutting budgets this year. As the country sinks deeper into recession - unemployment, according to some estimates, is as high as 12% and the economy is predicted to shrink by about 4.5% in 2009 - the government is slashing spending at most of its ministries. The Energy Ministry's budget is down by 33%, and that of the Transport Ministry by 30%. But there is one hugely expensive project on which President Dmitri Medvedev has vowed to actually increase spending: transforming Russia's creaking Soviet-era defense industry into a modern technological power, and turning...
...extra $1.9 billion in 2009. In late March, just days before flying to the G-20 summit in London, the President donned a military pilot's helmet and uniform at an air base near Moscow for a ride in the back of a Sukhoi-34 fighter bomber, one of Russia's most sophisticated and deadly pieces of hardware. Afterwards he told reporters that it was time to modernize the country's entire air-force fleet. "We have the momentum and people who want to serve their country," he said. "Much is yet to be done." (See pictures of Russia...
...Finally, the U.S. must reaffirm its commitment to nuclear non-proliferation everywhere. We should lead by example and take public and significant efforts to reduce our weapons stockpiles as well as encouraging Russia to do the same. The rising calls of a number of eminent Americans, including the “Four Horsemen” (George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn) in several recent articles, lay out a nuclear-free world as the only possible stable endpoint. As long as nuclear weapons exist anywhere, no one is safe, particularly in this age of terrorism, when bombs...
...Most international observers, including the International Atomic Energy Agency have agreed that Iran is operating an illicit uranium-enrichment program to develop material for use in a nuclear weapon. It is the national interest of the United States, Israel, Russia, the European Union, and most Arab nations to prevent this nation from developing nuclear weapons...
...films. The Alloy Orchestra of Cambridge, Mass. performs all over the country with their own scores for silent films. I first heard them at the Telluride Festival. This year they're appearing with [Josef] von Sternberg's The Last Command (1928), starring Emil Jannings as a general from Czarist Russia who loses his rank and everything else...