Word: russianizing
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...feel vindicated by this current crisis?I feel angry. Very, very angry. I described the way it happened, I described the mistakes, and I see all these people explaining it backwards. Let me make another metaphor: you have a hundred people playing Russian roulette, and one of them killed themselves, and economists are theorizing that he killed himself because he held the gun in a certain way. You require something vastly more structural. Let's go back to roots. Let's do real things. Let's have more transparency, fewer complicated products we don't understand. Let's generate economic...
...appear overly bothered by that possibility, suggesting that the U.N. mandate could simply be extended by the Security Council for another year. Washington has strongly discouraged that view, warning that following the summer's Georgia conflict, Russia may be in a spoiling mood and veto such an extension - although Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has since made clear that Moscow would, in fact, support an extension. (After all, the failure to achieve a Status of Forces Agreement would be enough of a setback for Washington to satisfy any Russian schadenfreude...
...State Department in 2006. Mandelson and Deripaska have known each other for several years. Although invited to Corfu by his close friend Rothschild, Mandelson stayed on the oligarch's yacht because Rothschild's villa was full. In his E.U. post, Mandelson was theoretically in a position to assist the Russian's business interests. He angrily denied any impropriety in an interview with the BBC. "There has been innuendo in the newspapers that I gave favors or I gave benefits as Trade Commissioner to individuals because of my personal friendship with them," he said. "The entirety of the European Commission...
This does not signify that we are all--as was Englishman John Maynard Keynes--Cambridge University economists with lucrative side jobs as investment managers, spectacular art collections, lots of famous friends and Russian-ballerina wives. At least I don't fit that description...
Stalin comes in second in Russian poll of greatest leaders. Yeah, but PUTIN still sexiest...