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2015-01-05 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Grandmaster Putin: Russia Recovers Stocks Of Its Companies

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-01-05 02:45|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Financial sharks? Grandmaster Putin? Serbian author with his head so far up Putins rear end he can't check his grammar.

Russian propaganda is getting desperate these days

Posted by USA #1 2015-01-05 05:48|| 2015-01-05 05:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, the "financial sharks" are investors who got Russia through some hard times. But the language of Marxism hasn't changed since it was developed.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-01-05 06:16|| 2015-01-05 06:16|| Front Page Top

#3 All for the front!

Posted by Shipman 2015-01-05 07:25|| 2015-01-05 07:25|| Front Page Top

#4 With the Saudis refusing to diminish production and consequently everyone else then pumping more oil into the market while the American portion of the international market continues to shrink, Putin may be recovering Russia's own natural resources too, no or minimal oil exports. (See-Hermit Kingdom [How's that working out for North Korea]). Well at least they have the corner market on military sales for equipment good enough to keep the tyrants and kleptocracies in power.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-01-05 08:23|| 2015-01-05 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Chess has long been popular in Russia—Czar Ivan IV is thought to have died while playing a match in 1584. After the Bolsheviks took power in 1917, it became a national pastime. Soon after the revolution, Vladimir Lenin's supreme commander of the Soviet army, Nikolay Krylenko, laid the foundations for state-sponsored chess: He opened chess schools, hosted tournaments, and promoted the game as a vehicle for international dominance. Why are the Russians so good at chess? Chess and checkers have been used as metaphors for Putin and Obama. Business has long been the province of the U.S.--well maybe not so much lately. Ideology seems to blind Obama to the strategic aspects of business and its potential as a weapon. Russia and the Marxist system don't seem to be so good at business in the long run although they did seem to catch on to mass production during WWII when producing weapons.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-01-05 09:06|| 2015-01-05 09:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Chess and checkers have been used as metaphors for Putin and Obama

Checkers & Obama, permit me my doubts.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-01-05 11:38|| 2015-01-05 11:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Magic words again.
US used to be p*o*k*e*r playing president vs a chess playing nation. Now we just have a want-a-be golfer. sigh.

Posted by 3dc 2015-01-05 13:43|| 2015-01-05 13:43|| Front Page Top

#8 and he hasn't even worked out the important hole is the 19th.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-01-05 15:12|| 2015-01-05 15:12|| Front Page Top

#9 And O messes up the 14th hole really bad.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-01-05 21:48|| 2015-01-05 21:48|| Front Page Top

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