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• 31 Aug 08
  

  Michel Bauwens

  strategic analysis, with as core the demographic implosion of Russia

  Empire P2P

• 26 Aug 08
  

  Americans play Monopoly, Russians chess

• 22 Aug 08
  

  eufoaguilar

  On the night of November 22, 2004, then-Russian president - now
  premier - Vladimir Putin watched the television news in his dacha near
  Moscow. People who were with Putin that night report his anger and
  disbelief at the unfolding "Orange" revolution

  us russia geopolitical.hotspots eu

• 21 Aug 08
  

  JimC Rast

  Russia population numbers

  • Russia is the only country where abortions are more numerous than live births,   a devastating gauge of national despair
• 19 Aug 08
  

  kevin whited

  American foreign policy International Politics Blog-PubliusTX Misc

• 18 Aug 08
  

  Gerhard Stoltz
  • The fact is that all Russian politicians are clever. The stupid ones are all   dead. By contrast, America in its complacency promotes dullards
  • The Russians cannot believe that   the Americans are as stupid as they look, and conclude that Washington wants to   destroy them.
  • The board game Monopoly is won by   placing as many hotels as possible on squares of the playing board. Substitute   military bases, and you have the sum of American strategic thinking. 
    
  • Demographics stand at the center of Putin's calculation,
  • Russia is the only country where abortions are more numerous than live births,   a devastating gauge of national despair.
  • Some demographers predict a Muslim majority   in Russia by 2040, and by mid-century at the latest.

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