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There's a celebrated scene in dostoyevsky's classic novel The Gambler in which a wealthy, 75-year-old Russian grandmother takes a seat in a casino and watches a young man pile up his winnings at the roulette table. After a few minutes, she nudges the narrator, and instructs him: "Tell him to stop and take his money with him. Soon he will be losing - yes, losing everything that...
...night of August 7, with most Moscovites vacationing at their dachas and Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin on his way to Beijing for the Olympic Games, Georgian troops attacked South Ossetia in an attempt to reestablish control of the region following a succession of clashes between Georgian troops and separatist forces...
...only after the Georgian offensive that Russia intervened. And while Russia’s response was disproportionate, one would be hard pressed to argue that Georgia did not know that their actions would provoke a Russian reaction. As James Traub wrote in The New York Times, Georgia’s Columbia-educated, Western-backed president Mikheil Saakashvili “has played a dangerous game of baiting the Russian bear.” It seems that Mr. Saakashvilli not only may have led his now devastated country into an avoidable war, but also sparked a shift in American political discourse...
...dominant regional power. In 2006, to cite just one example, Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled gas conglomerate, cut off supplies to Ukraine to influence domestic Ukrainian politics. But Russia’s actions toward Georgia in August cannot be viewed in a simplistic framework of unilateral Russian bullying...
...from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in western Gansu province in prime time between 9:07p.m. and 10:27 p.m. The mission will be the country's first to carry three astronauts - or hangtianyuan, as they are called in Chinese - into orbit. The spacecraft, a modified version of the Russian Soyuz vessel, will carry a Russian and a Chinese-designed space suit. "This is big," says Joan Johnson-Freese, an expert on the Chinese space program at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. "It's not easy to design a space suit that's flexible and has life...