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WATCH: Russia City Covered In Chemical Gas Cloud

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 11.02.2011

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A story that should only happen in horror movies seems to have come very real. At least 42 people were hospitalized in the Russian town of Cheylab...

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Putin's Pee Joke: It Would Be Funny if it Weren't so Sad

Simon Shuster | Posted 05.25.2011

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Simon Shuster

It is one of Russia's oldest traditions to write directly to the Tsar when something goes wrong. Putin did not create this mentality. It is just a symptom of an authoritarian state that rests upon a giant, immovable bureaucracy.

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