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Russian Democracy Has a Pulse, Now It Needs a Heart

Harris Silver | Posted 03.31.2012 | World
Read More: Pravda, Citizenship, Italy, International Treaty, U.S. Consulate, Democracy, Sovereignty, Facebook, State Department, Arab Spring, La Repubblica, Elke Mellersh, Child Abduction, Russia, Russian Democracy, Domestic Violence, Hague International Convention Against Child Abduction, Russian Law, World News
Harris Silver

I think this case redefines how we can think about the bigger ideas of citizenship and sovereignty and is a window into the state of democracy in Russia. Let's talk about citizenship first.

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The Best Vodka Bars

Liquor.com | Posted 09.21.2011 | Home
Read More: Pravda, Cocktails, Best Vodka Bars, BarçA, Slidepollajax, Vodka Bars, Russian Vodka Room, Red Square, Subzero Vodka Bar, Home News
Liquor.com

Pick just about any bar in the country, and it's bound to have at least one vodka. It is, after all, America's most popular tipple. But many establish...

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WATCH: A Rare Look At Soviet-Era Political Cartoons

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Joseph Brodsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Gary Larson, George W. Bush, Stalin Thought of You, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Leon Trotsky, Dennis the Menace, A Room and a Half, Kevin McNeer, Pravda, Blondie, The Little King, Calvin and Hobbes, Adolf Hitler, Jean-Paul Sartre, Soyuz Multifilm Animation Studio, Ernest Hemingway, Pogo, Vladimir Brylyahkov, Berkeley Breathed, Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy, Nobel Prize for Literature, Boris Efimov, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Bill Watterson, Russian State Film Archives, Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, Bloom County, Brezhnev, Poet Laureate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Cartoon Art, Mikhail Koltsov, Ferd?Nand, Film, Arts News
George Heymont

Using rarely seen footage from the Russian State Film Archives, documentarian Kevin McNeer has produced a fascinating documentary about the late Soviet political cartoonist and propaganda artist Boris Efimov.

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GOP-TV and What to Do About It

Trey Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Pravda, Gop, Fox News, Frank Luntz, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Republicans, Roger Ailes, Fox News Channel, Media News
Trey Ellis

With CNN dying a slow death and MSNBC too small to be a strong enough counterweight, having one political party's semi-official press organ doubling as our nation's dominant news outlet is a grave danger to our republic.

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IDIOTS DELIGHT: Russian Paper Accuses Canadians of Doping & The Canada Paper That Takes It Seriously

B.D. Gallof | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Read More: Pravda, Russia, Doping, Winter Olympics 2010, Winter Olympics, Olympics, Vancouver Olympics, Toronto Sun, Propaganda, Canada, Sports News
B.D. Gallof

If you want to see the end of journalism...start here. All it takes is a English failed musician who lives and writes for the Russian Pravda. He ha...

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The Medium With the Twisted Lip

Charles Warner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Journalism, Sherlock Holmes, Pravda, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aol, Blackberry, St. Clair, Holmes, Media News
Charles Warner

The government is broken and so is American journalism. However, like then man with the twisted lip, journalism will find a way to live and prosper.

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