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        <title><![CDATA[Quick Takes by Mike Averko, June 30]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[KENNEBUNKPORT -VENEZUELA&nbsp;&#151; BUSINESS -KOSOVO&nbsp;&#151; UKRAINE&nbsp;&#151; SOFIA&nbsp;&#151; MEDIA&nbsp;&#151; HISTORY&nbsp;&#151; SPORTS]]></description>
        <link>http://timely-thoughts.com/news/2007/07/01/quick_takes_by_mike_averko_june_30/</link>
        <pubDate> Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:02:04 CEST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Burn Baltics, Burn]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Why the Russian minorities in&nbsp;Latvia and Estonia aren't going to&nbsp;take it&nbsp;anymore.A link to&nbsp;the Burn Baltics, Burn article by&nbsp;Mark Ames in&nbsp;the Exile magazine]]></description>
        <link>http://timely-thoughts.com/bronze_soldier/2007/06/13/burn_baltics_burn/</link>
        <pubDate> Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:56:15 CEST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Quick Takes by Mike Averko, June 7]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[PUTIN&nbsp;&#151; GORBACHEV&nbsp;&#151; CHAVEZ&nbsp;&#151; DISPUTED LANDS&nbsp;&#151; FORMER YUGOSLAVIA&nbsp;&#151; UKRAINE&nbsp;&#151; MTV&nbsp;&#151; SPORTS]]></description>
        <link>http://timely-thoughts.com/news/2007/06/07/quick_takes_by_mike_averko_june_7/</link>
        <pubDate> Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:50:41 CEST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Quick Takes by Mike Averko, June 6]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[RUSSIA/WEST&nbsp;&#151; DISPUTED LANDS&nbsp;&#151; DEFENSE&nbsp;&#151; JEWRY&nbsp;&#151; BLOGS&nbsp;&#151; RUSSIAN IN&nbsp;NEW YORK&nbsp;&#151; SPORTS&nbsp;&#151; FEEDBACK]]></description>
        <link>http://timely-thoughts.com/news/2007/06/07/quick_takes_by_mike_averko_june_6/</link>
        <pubDate> Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:38:57 CEST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Polish leadership threatens WTO veto over meat imports]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Poland will veto Russia&#146;s&nbsp;accession to&nbsp;the World Trade Organization (WTO) if&nbsp;Russia continues to&nbsp;restrict Polish meat imports.Both Polish president Lech Kaczynski and trade representatives stated they were considering this move. Polish authorities, both increasingly bellicose and hysterical, keep up&nbsp;verbal assault on&nbsp;Russia while Russian government remains silent and seemingly ignores the latest wave of&nbsp;provocations.]]></description>
        <link>http://timely-thoughts.com/news/2007/05/31/polish_leadership_threatens_wto_veto_over_meat_imports/</link>
        <pubDate> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:09:23 CEST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lugovoi (Lugovoy) claims UK is behind traitor's death]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Andrei Lugovoy (Lugovoi) whom British authorities accused of&nbsp;murdering former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has claimed that the British security services were behind the murder.Andrei Lugovoy said he&nbsp;holds ample evidence that MI6c had a&nbsp;hand in&nbsp;Litvinenko's poisoning by&nbsp;polonium-210. Lugovoy, who held a&nbsp;press conference today, also said MI6&nbsp;tried to&nbsp;recruit him to&nbsp;collect information on&nbsp;President Putin and that both Litvinenko and exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky were on&nbsp;its payroll.]]></description>
        <link>http://timely-thoughts.com/news/2007/05/31/lugovoi_lugovoy_claims_uk_is_behind_traitors_death/</link>
        <pubDate> Thu, 31 May 2007 12:27:32 CEST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Poland threatens new veto, demands EC pushes ahead with the Energy Charter]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Poland wants a&nbsp;common energy declaration on&nbsp;the part of&nbsp;the EU,&nbsp;which would be&nbsp;conditional and binding to&nbsp;all parties. Poland demands that the issue of&nbsp;energy supplies be&nbsp;made key condition to&nbsp;negotiations over any new treaty between EU&nbsp;and Russia. ]]></description>
        <link>http://timely-thoughts.com/news/2007/05/16/poland_threatens_new_veto_demands_ec_pushes_ahead_with_the_energy_charter_/</link>
        <pubDate> Wed, 16 May 2007 20:54:24 CEST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Russian and Estonian Bureaucrats Policy is Almost Indentical]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Mikhail Deliagin, internationally renown economist and director of&nbsp;the Globalization Institute (Institute of&nbsp;Globalization Problems) speaks about Bronze Soldier, Russian speakers in&nbsp;the Baltics and official policies.]]></description>
        <link>http://timely-thoughts.com/commentary/2007/05/16/russian_and_estonian_bureaucrats_policy_is_almost_indentical/</link>
        <pubDate> Wed, 16 May 2007 15:32:38 CEST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Quick Takes by Mike Averko (May 11)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[News Summary Review&nbsp;&#151; Quick Takes by&nbsp;Mike Averko&nbsp;&#151; from May 11,&nbsp;2007&nbsp;]]></description>
        <link>http://timely-thoughts.com/news/2007/05/11/quick_takes_by_mike_averko_may_11/</link>
        <pubDate> Fri, 11 May 2007 20:31:40 CEST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Language Persecution To Intensify In Latvia]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[As&nbsp;Delfi reports, Latvian State Language Center is&nbsp;to&nbsp;double its efforts to&nbsp;punish use of&nbsp;Russian, to&nbsp;raise fines and to&nbsp;effect a&nbsp;two fold increase in&nbsp;the number of&nbsp;language inspectors deployed in&nbsp;combatting use of&nbsp;Russian language&#133;]]></description>
        <link>http://timely-thoughts.com/discrimination/2007/05/11/language_persecution_to_intensify_in_latvia/</link>
        <pubDate> Fri, 11 May 2007 13:02:05 CEST</pubDate>
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