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...pensions - though the payouts are meager. Yet relations with Russia remain uneasy: there is no love lost between Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin, says Andrei Sannikov, former Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister, and the Kremlin is keen to bring Belarus back into Russia's fold. If Moscow were to shut off the oil, Lukashenko's regime would collapse. But for now, the ornery President holds off another democratic revolution on Russia's borders. Lukashenko does that the old-fashioned way. Every corner of the 208,000-sq-km country comes under his iron fist. He personally appoints all officials from...
Although she suffered a herniated disk in her neck while doing a back handspring in fall 2004, and production shut down for about seven weeks to allow for the star’s recovery, a healed and mentally rejuvenated Theron returned ready as ever to bring Flux to life, determined to do her own physical work: “That was so much a part of the character for me that I could not imagine just having stunt people...
...sometimes replaced momentarily by Christina Ricci (who lends guest vocals to the track). It feels like he’s the hidden-message programmer from the climax of “2001: A Space Odyssey”…you know, when Dave shuts down HAL 9000, and there’s the screen of the guy that pops up, telling Dave what the real reason for the mission was?Well, it feels like that. Except I didn’t cry at the end of this video, and I weep like a little girl whenever...
...toward the city of Harbin earlier this month was their fear of damaging tourism and investment in the region, sources tell TIME. Instead, as the potentially lethal spill approached the metropolis of 10 million people, the city said in an online statement that the entire water supply was being shut down for "water main maintenance and repair...
...dared it to move yet another minute ahead. It did. Jumping up, I approached the people at the table for the third time, asking in my most polite passive-aggressive voice if they knew how much longer this would take. They shrugged and gave me a lollipop to shut me up. There was nothing to be done, so I trudged back to my seat, resuming my battle with the clock, a war I had already waged for two and a half hours. Next to me, a girl sighed in defeat, shaking her head as she stood up and walked away...