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Financial Advisor January 2008 Jeff Schlegel	Another BRIC In The Wall Winston Churchill once famously described Russia as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Investors today might feel the same way, given the dichotomy between its enticing growth prospects and the uncertainties raised by the increasing authoritarianism of President Vladimir Putin.
Wired November 27, 2007 Richard Morgan	Today, Countries Battle for a Piece of the Arctic. Tomorrow? The Moon. What has gone unnoticed amid the international clamor between Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia, and the US is that the Arctic battle has implications that reach far beyond the top of Earth. The squabbling will be a prelude to -- and even set the tone for -- eventual sovereignty claims on the moon.
Reason November 2007 Jonathan Blanks	Post-Soviet Sex Mating for the motherland: Kremlin-sponsored sex isn't the only activity occupying the Russian youth movement Nashi's time.
Fast Company November 1, 2007 Jonathan Green	Nightmare in Boomtown Mark Seidenfeld was just another American businessman cashing in on the post-Soviet boom. Then one bad deal in Kazakhstan sent his life into a spiral of extortion, Siberian prison, and frontier justice. A cautionary tale.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 James Oberg	Russians Prepare to Go to Mars Without Leaving the Ground In a battered brick warehouse in southeastern Moscow, scientists are preparing to confine a team of volunteers to a simulated Mars-bound spacecraft for more than a year. The simulation is really like a classic exercise in reliability engineering.
The Motley Fool September 11, 2007 Rich Smith	Gazprom Outsources Altruism Although having negotiated a production sharing agreement with the Russian government guaranteeing Exxon the right to sell to whom it chose, at the best price on offer, the Kremlin and Gazprom are not standing by that arrangement.
The Motley Fool September 10, 2007 Rich Smith	Stalin and Microsoft: Tovarischi at Last As allegations of copyright infringement are used in Russia to crack-down on organizations hostile to the Kremlin's agenda, will Microsoft be found guilty by association, thereby damaging its credibility?
Geotimes September 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Cold Wars: Russia Claims Arctic Land The underwater Lomonosov Ridge stretches across the floor of the Arctic Ocean between Greenland and Russia, crossing through the geographic North Pole. Russia recently claimed that the ridge is an extension of its continental shelf in a bid to expand its territory.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Barry E. DiGregorio	China Reaches For the Red Planet A joint project with Russia anticipates retrieving soil from the Martian moon Phobos.
Reason July 2007 Cathy Young	The Good Czar Every day in President Vladimir Putin's Russia is a reminder that the window of freedom the country enjoyed in the Yeltsin era (and even, in some respects, in the tail end of the Gorbachev years) is closing.
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