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Russia & Its Neighbors in the 21 st Century

Russia & Its Neighbors in the 21 st Century. The Collectivist Russian Soul II. Top-down Politics & Corruption III. Reflections of the Past. Standard Russian icon image the “Mother & Child”. “On the mir (communal farm)” by Sergei Korovin (1858-1908). Post-Soviet Russia.

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Russia & Its Neighbors in the 21 st Century

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  1. Russia & Its Neighbors in the 21st Century • The Collectivist Russian Soul II. Top-down Politics & Corruption III. Reflections of the Past

  2. Standard Russian icon image the “Mother & Child”

  3. “On the mir (communal farm)” by Sergei Korovin (1858-1908)

  4. Post-Soviet Russia

  5. Video Link: • Corruption in Putin’s Russia: “Russia’s Youtube Whistle Blower” (NY Times video, January 2011)

  6. An “inebriated Boris Yeltsin on the campaign trail in Rostov-on-the-Don” (1996—A.P. photo)

  7. Boris Yeltsin resigned as Russia’s president on the New Year in 2000

  8. Vladimir Putin, b. 1952; formerly of the KGB and Russian Security Forces (FSB)

  9. Ukrainian President Victor Lushenko before and after a poisoning during his 2005 campaign (photos only weeks apart).

  10. Anna Polit-kovskaya (1958-206), Russian investi-gative journalist assass-inated in October 2006

  11. Alexander Litvinenko (1962-2006), former KGB agent and critic of Vladimir Putin’s government who died in England due to a mysterious poisoning.

  12. Video Link: • Russian dissident and anti-Putin activist Alexander Litvenenko at the Frontline Club in London in November 2006, commenting on the recent death of Russian journalist Anna Politskovskaya

  13. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and US President George W. Bush in Tbilisi in 2005

  14. Georgia’s new oil pipeline, which began operation in 2005, was funded mainly by BP and bypasses Russia’s oil pipeline.

  15. FOX News cuts short interview with Georgians

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