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...Since Medvedev and his calculating predecessor-turned-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin intervened in Georgia in August, relations between Moscow and the United States and European Union have been frosty. Though many hawks argue the Western powers were not forceful enough, Russia has paid for its bellicosity with capital flight. According to Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, the country has lost between $10 and $15 billion of foreign direct investment and its stock market is down close to 50 percent this year. Despite the global financial crisis affecting all markets, a considerable part of such downturns for energy-rich Russia...
Russia first lay claim to the Arctic in July 2007, when Vladimir Putin signaled his intention to annex the entire North Pole, an area twice the size of France, Belgium and Switzerland combined. Currently, five countries - Russia, the U.S., Canada, Norway and Denmark - each control a 200-mile economic zone along their coasts in the Arctic region. None of these economic zones reach the North Pole. Under the current U.N. Maritime convention, one country's zone can be extended only if it can prove that the continental shelf into which it wishes to expand is a natural extension...
...this good at self-defense?" asks this Russia Today reporter, which is a quite ridiculous thing to say since the ability to flip people isn't at all going to stop an assassin's bullet. The real question begged by these clips from Let's Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin (and again, yes, this is a real DVD): Who is crazy enough to volunteer as his sparring partner? Just think what would happen if that guy in the blue robe reflexively, accidentally flipped Vlad instead of getting flipped. He'd probably up on the front lines in Georgia...
First, it was shirtless pics of a ripped Vladimir Putin fishing peacefully. Then, stories emerged of Putin reportedly saving a Russian film crew from certain death by shooting a vicious tiger with a tranquilizer dart. And now this - a judo training video in which Putin flips a guy every which way but loose. If it wasn't official before, it is now: Vladimir Putin is unstoppable...
...Putin, Vladimir •Palin invokes rearing of head...