Russian doc makes it onto Venice Film Forum's line-up – RT

A documentary by Aleksandr Sokurov, a famous Russian director, called “Reading the Book of Blockade” will be screened as part of the 66th Venice Film Festival on September 9.

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Economic Logic: Education, natural resources and corruption

Education , natural resources and corruption. Poor countries are cursed by corruption, low human capital and an economy mostly based on natural resources. These three factors have often been treated as exogenous to GDP and in particular …

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Eternal Remont:: Putin: Loves Animals, Probably Hates Skype

But he can’t be a true outdoorsman, unless he has regularly scheduled photo ops with animals . This year’s adventure took him the Pacific island of Chkalov, where upon Putin donned a wetsuit off and got cozy with a beluga whale named …

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RIAA: "All your music are belong to us" | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes sieves through the marketing hyperbole and casts his critical eye over the latest technological innovations to find out which products make the grade and which don’t.

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Russian “Crush” to screen at Venice Film Festival – RT

“The short stories united in the film almanac are dedicated to the themes of love and mutual relations, as seen through the eyes of a new generation of Russian cinematographers,” the producer of the film , Sabina Yeremeyeva, …

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Taiwanese Wushu Team member wins gold in World Games Wushu Event …

Kaohsiung, July 24 (CNA) Peng Wei-chua, the 2005 World Wushu champion and a prominent performer of Taiwanese Opera, thrilled the home crowd by winning a gold.

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Music speaks another story « Today is life … Tomorrow never comes

This entry was posted on Friday, July 24th, 2009 at 12:48 am and is filed under Canton Zurich, Giants, Life, Lorana, Poetry, Russia, art, music , wisdom.

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Kyrgyz internet on election violations « Tolkun Umaraliev's Blog

Kyrgyz internet users have been very active in discussing the presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan. Members of popular internet forum Diesel created a thread yesterday on the elections, and today, it has more than 50 pages already! …

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