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TIME Europe November 28, 2011 Nathan Thornburgh	Olympic Dreams: Will Sochi Rehabilitate Russia's Image? While the Sochi 2014 organizing committee is doing a valiant job creating an international event, look outside the bubble of Olympic preparations and you'll see that a country cannot be fundamentally changed just by lighting the torch.
National Defense December 2011 Anand Datla	Russian Navy Ponders Investments In Nuclear-Powered Surface Ships The Russian navy recently announced plans to build either a nuclear powered destroyer or cruiser -- depending on translation -- by 2016.
Chemistry World November 7, 2011 Eugene Gerden	Russia Books Place at Science Top Table The Innovative Russia 2020 scheme should see science funding rise to at least 2.5 per cent of GDP. However, some critics think the scheme is overambitious and predict that implementation will run into bureacratic problems.
TIME Europe November 7, 2011 Simon Shuster	Raising the Barre: Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre Gets a $700 Million Makeover Its rebirth has caused a stir. Everyone is looking for a restoration of Russian pride.
The Motley Fool October 10, 2011 David Lee Smith	Can Big Oil Survive Russian Roulette? Will the energy world be turned helter-skelter by impending major changes in Russia?
AskMen.com Simon Kuper	Russian Soccer Times have changed since the days when players only worried about breaking a leg on the field. FIFpro plans to publish its complete "black book" of bad clubs in January.
TIME Europe September 26, 2011 Michael Schuman	State-Run Shakedown Investors learn that nothing in Russia is a sure thing, thanks to the unpredictable and predatory government.
TIME Europe September 12, 2011 Nathan Thornburgh	Georgia Wants Strategic Alliances in Russia's Backyard After a war that was essentially a failure of friendship -- his far-off allies in Washington had not warred alongside him against Russia and they had not prevented the loss of huge amounts of Georgian territory -- President Mikheil Saakashvili wants to show off some new friends.
BusinessWeek May 19, 2011 Meyer & Arkhipov	Fathers, Sons, and Russian Power Games The sons of Putin's allies have started to assume important positions in Russia's corporate power structure.
IEEE Spectrum April 2011 William Sweet	Chernobyl, 25 Years Later The challenges of that crisis are the same Fukushima presents
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