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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Russia</title>
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		<title>Russia-Ukraine Relations Deteriorating</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/21/russia-ukraine-relations-deteriorating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian-Ukrainian tensions are building.  &#8220;Now, for the first time in years, the word &#8216;war&#8217; is being used here, and it&#8217;s not dismissed as impossible,&#8221; Ukrainian analyst Valeriy Chaly told the Washington Post.
This is driven by specific issues, such as the Crimean issue, and by the larger Russian skepticism that Ukraine is a permanent, independent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia-Ukraine Tensions over Crimea</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/28/russia-ukraine-tensions-over-crimea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/28/russia-ukraine-tensions-over-crimea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reported today on tense relations between Russia and Ukraine, as &#8220;both sides resort to provocations and recriminations.&#8221; 
It is the Crimean Peninsula, appended to Ukraine by Stalin but heavily populated by Russians and Crimean Tatars, &#8220;where the tensions are perhaps most in danger of bursting into open conflict,&#8221; though &#8220;both countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: More Sick Than BRIC</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/16/russia-more-sick-than-bric/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/16/russia-more-sick-than-bric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week David Ignatius argued in the Washington Post that Russia is clearly declining, &#8220;a developing country trying to pretend that it is a developed one,&#8221; combining the worst aspects of free markets and command economies.
He notes that a Russian editor does not foresee true economic modernization until the economy is run by people with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Russia Commentary on Radio Free Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/03/my-russia-commentary-on-radio-free-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/03/my-russia-commentary-on-radio-free-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a commentary piece for Radio Free Europe on the future of Russia.
The central points, briefly, are these:

&#8220;Diminished democratic decision making reduces the feedback Russian society can give to the government, increasing the likelihood that popular and elite interests will diverge.&#8221;
&#8220;A state that relies on resource extraction can easily lose the inclination to attend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for the post-American age</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/05/tips-for-the-post-american-age/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/05/tips-for-the-post-american-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Central Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parag Khanna, author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New World Order, offers some tips for a new US president in the October issue of Wired, in an article by Daniel Pink.

The United States can avoid decline by &#8220;tightening trade and energy ties to the rest of the hemisphere, pursuing economic innovation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia: self-determination, and NATO</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/09/georgia-self-determination-and-nato/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/09/georgia-self-determination-and-nato/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Caucasus]]></category>
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		<title>Russia: &#8220;no going back&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/28/russia-no-going-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/28/russia-no-going-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knowledge@Wharton this week offered a series of articles on Russia&#8217;s evolution.
Scholars suggest that Russia is not reverting to old ways, as such, and Russians may broadly find the country&#8217;s present course agreeable.
Some commentators interpret nearly all his moves as attempts to restore to the Kremlin, Russia&#8217;s executive branch, to the omnipotence that it enjoyed during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russians: nyet to the EU</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/17/russians-nyet-to-the-eu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/17/russians-nyet-to-the-eu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russians are far less interested in joining the European Union than they were a few years ago, according to a new poll.
In 2003, 73% thought Russia should join the bloc.  Now only about a third (36%) feel this way.
At some level this fluctuation hardly matters: it will be decades before Europe&#8217;s limping eastern giant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: come hither Belarus</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/03/russia-come-hither-belarus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/03/russia-come-hither-belarus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a new Russian poll, two-thirds of Russians (64%) say they would vote to unite Russia and Belarus.
Belarusians may not be so keen on the prospect of what would amount to absorption by their giant neighbor.  The elite in particular are likely to have grown attached to a state of their own.
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		<title>Russia: &#8220;widening control over industry&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/26/russia-widening-control-over-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/26/russia-widening-control-over-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia is bringing more key companies under state influence, the WP reports.
The Russian government portrays this trend as furthering the &#8220;creation of powerful companies that can compete in the global economy.&#8221;
If this is accurate, it would point further toward an East Asian scenario for Russia, in which the government guides a predominantly capitalist system.
But some [...]]]></description>
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