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		<title>By: Russian President (a.k.a. "False Dmitry")</title>
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		<dc:creator>Russian President (a.k.a. "False Dmitry")</dc:creator>
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		<description>&quot;Японский протест&quot; становится театром абсурда

Автомобилисты допротестовались. В прямом смысле слова. Волна санкционированных, не очень санкционированных и вовсе незаконных акций против повышения пошлин на подержанные иномарки, столь громко начавшаяся в декабре месяце, к началу января выродилась в малочисленные пикеты.

На очереди театрализованные акции протеста. Далее, по законам жанра, автомобильный междусобойчик ждет маргинализация и забвение.

Очередная общероссийская акция протеста автомобилистов, состоявшаяся 8 января, собрала по всей стране в общей сложности две-три сотни человек. Проведение акции было заявлено во Владивостоке, Санкт-Петербурге, Екатеринбурге, Благовещенске, Новороссийске, Чите, Иркутске и других городах. В Иркутске, к примеру, собралось около 30 протестующих. В Санкт-Петербурге - столько же (вместо заявленных 700 участников). Причем почти всех из собравшихся - местные активисты различного рода оппозиционных организаций: от каспаровского Объединенного гражданского фронта до сторонников Лимонова. Не исключено, впрочем, что некоторые из них тоже умеют водит автомобиль.

В Благовещенске «протестом автомобилистов» почему-то было названо мероприятие местного отделения компартии. Дабы ни у кого не возникло сомнений, кто «рулит» митингом, организаторы заранее позаботились о большом количестве красных знамен. 

В центре «народного гнева» – столице Приморья Владивостоке, жители которого якобы наиболее страдают от повышения пошлин на б/у японские авто, в мероприятии приняли участие около 40 человек. Не помогла даже моральная и дипломатическая помощь японских властей, обратившихся перед Новым годом к России с просьбой отменить постановление правительства.

Японские претензии понять легко. Япония махнула рукой на акции против повышения пошлин на иномарки. «Правительство Японии считает лучшим вариантом не приводить в действие нынешние меры, - цитируют представителя МИД страны восходящего солнца российские СМИ. - Мы полагаем, что движение в сторону протекционизма не соответствует позиции России, которая стремится к вступлению во Всемирную торговую организацию». Потери Японии из-за повышения ставок могут составить порядка $10 млрд.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Японский протест&#8221; становится театром абсурда</p>
<p>Автомобилисты допротестовались. В прямом смысле слова. Волна санкционированных, не очень санкционированных и вовсе незаконных акций против повышения пошлин на подержанные иномарки, столь громко начавшаяся в декабре месяце, к началу января выродилась в малочисленные пикеты.</p>
<p>На очереди театрализованные акции протеста. Далее, по законам жанра, автомобильный междусобойчик ждет маргинализация и забвение.</p>
<p>Очередная общероссийская акция протеста автомобилистов, состоявшаяся 8 января, собрала по всей стране в общей сложности две-три сотни человек. Проведение акции было заявлено во Владивостоке, Санкт-Петербурге, Екатеринбурге, Благовещенске, Новороссийске, Чите, Иркутске и других городах. В Иркутске, к примеру, собралось около 30 протестующих. В Санкт-Петербурге &#8211; столько же (вместо заявленных 700 участников). Причем почти всех из собравшихся &#8211; местные активисты различного рода оппозиционных организаций: от каспаровского Объединенного гражданского фронта до сторонников Лимонова. Не исключено, впрочем, что некоторые из них тоже умеют водит автомобиль.</p>
<p>В Благовещенске «протестом автомобилистов» почему-то было названо мероприятие местного отделения компартии. Дабы ни у кого не возникло сомнений, кто «рулит» митингом, организаторы заранее позаботились о большом количестве красных знамен. </p>
<p>В центре «народного гнева» – столице Приморья Владивостоке, жители которого якобы наиболее страдают от повышения пошлин на б/у японские авто, в мероприятии приняли участие около 40 человек. Не помогла даже моральная и дипломатическая помощь японских властей, обратившихся перед Новым годом к России с просьбой отменить постановление правительства.</p>
<p>Японские претензии понять легко. Япония махнула рукой на акции против повышения пошлин на иномарки. «Правительство Японии считает лучшим вариантом не приводить в действие нынешние меры, &#8211; цитируют представителя МИД страны восходящего солнца российские СМИ. &#8211; Мы полагаем, что движение в сторону протекционизма не соответствует позиции России, которая стремится к вступлению во Всемирную торговую организацию». Потери Японии из-за повышения ставок могут составить порядка $10 млрд.</p>
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		<title>By: W. Shedd</title>
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		<dc:creator>W. Shedd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: W. Shedd</title>
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		<dc:creator>W. Shedd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Chrisius Courtappointedrussiafriendlius</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chrisius Courtappointedrussiafriendlius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Tess, that boss of yours was a total absolute jerk. Good riddance! If he was from San Diego this means that he was probably Chris’s blood relative.&quot;

You will pay for your words, Kolya.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Tess, that boss of yours was a total absolute jerk. Good riddance! If he was from San Diego this means that he was probably Chris’s blood relative.&#8221;</p>
<p>You will pay for your words, Kolya.</p>
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		<title>By: Kolya</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kolya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tess, that boss of yours was a total absolute jerk. Good riddance! If he was from San Diego this means that he was probably Chris&#039;s blood relative. White Christmas&#039;s are becoming rarer. Vermont farmers are noticing that the trend (with zig zags) is that both winter and spring start later. This year, though, it&#039;s a definite white Christmas. 

My daughter has the best of both worlds: what she calls American Christmas and then Russian Christmas. Of course, at 16 it&#039;s not quite the same as when she was 8.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tess, that boss of yours was a total absolute jerk. Good riddance! If he was from San Diego this means that he was probably Chris&#8217;s blood relative. White Christmas&#8217;s are becoming rarer. Vermont farmers are noticing that the trend (with zig zags) is that both winter and spring start later. This year, though, it&#8217;s a definite white Christmas. </p>
<p>My daughter has the best of both worlds: what she calls American Christmas and then Russian Christmas. Of course, at 16 it&#8217;s not quite the same as when she was 8.</p>
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		<title>By: Tim Newman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tim Newman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve been on a ship for the past couple of weeks, dumping rock in the sea of Okhotsk, so missed the protests in Sakhalin.  This move will hit a lot of Sakhaliners hard - both people wanting to buy a decent car, and those who make a living from importing them.  Nobody here buys Russian cars because they are appallingly bad quality and almost as difficult to get onto the island as Japanese cars.

This looks to me like the Russian government, facing desperate times, shoring up support in the west at the expense of a small population in the east.  The far easterners will now have to buy a crap product for the benefit of autoworkers and factory owners west of the Urals.

But even more disgraceful is the amount they charge to import tyres.  Russia&#039;s roads are lethal, one reason being that people drive about on poor quality tyres.  Russian tyres are appallingly bad, so people are forced to import western ones.  What does the government do?  Tax the hell out of the imports, thus ensuring that road safety in Russia remains on a par with the developing world.

I&#039;m just glad that I imported my Toyota in September.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been on a ship for the past couple of weeks, dumping rock in the sea of Okhotsk, so missed the protests in Sakhalin.  This move will hit a lot of Sakhaliners hard &#8211; both people wanting to buy a decent car, and those who make a living from importing them.  Nobody here buys Russian cars because they are appallingly bad quality and almost as difficult to get onto the island as Japanese cars.</p>
<p>This looks to me like the Russian government, facing desperate times, shoring up support in the west at the expense of a small population in the east.  The far easterners will now have to buy a crap product for the benefit of autoworkers and factory owners west of the Urals.</p>
<p>But even more disgraceful is the amount they charge to import tyres.  Russia&#8217;s roads are lethal, one reason being that people drive about on poor quality tyres.  Russian tyres are appallingly bad, so people are forced to import western ones.  What does the government do?  Tax the hell out of the imports, thus ensuring that road safety in Russia remains on a par with the developing world.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m just glad that I imported my Toyota in September.</p>
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		<title>By: tess</title>
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		<dc:creator>tess</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks, Kolya.   I almost experienced a Christmas in New England once.  It was when I lived in Chicago, and I had a very self-centered boss based near San Diego who set up meetings for me and him in Petersborough, New Hampshire, on December 22/23rd.  My counterpart in the NH company, who was also a mother of young children, could not believe he was scheduling it like this. (He was Christmas-ing somewhere on the Eastern seaboard and wanted his flights covered by the company.) She set me up in the most charming bed &amp; breakfast in the area, believing I should have some benefit from the risk.  Of course,the snowflakes were mounting on the tree branches outside my window when I woke up.  It was beautiful. And if staying there by myself didn&#039;t mean missing my son&#039;s 2nd Christmas and my husband&#039;s first in the USA, I might have considered it.  The meeting seemed excruciatingly long as I could see the unstopping flurries outside, when I dared look at a window. As I had nabbed the last Subaru Outback car rental in town the day before, Mr. Bossman asked that I drive us both to the airport.  I remember how he kept trying to stomp the snow off his black patent leather shoes (with tossles) and would shiver in his nylon baseball jacket. (He&#039;d lived in Southern California too long to know better?) I did get the last laugh that time, however. As the flight to Chicago was to be the last to leave before the airport shut down, and there were no East Coast take-offs. It was a &#039;so long sucka... moment&#039;. 

I think one of the benefits of being married to a Russian is that there is no December 25 tradition. When we met in Paris, the focus of Christmas was food - a great meal. And we try to keep it there. My own family was so numerous, we never attempted to give each other gifts.  So, up until the children reached school-age, my Christmas&#039;s were pretty easy. I still try to keep the children&#039;s expectations in line with fiscal realities, but I&#039;ve given in some to the peer pressure and get them gifts.  New Years is big -- again food-wise and then on Russian Christmas we get to pull out the caviar dish again. (Sometimes we do an Orthodox service, which I actually enjoy, despite my last post on the subject which might lead you to think the contrary.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, Kolya.   I almost experienced a Christmas in New England once.  It was when I lived in Chicago, and I had a very self-centered boss based near San Diego who set up meetings for me and him in Petersborough, New Hampshire, on December 22/23rd.  My counterpart in the NH company, who was also a mother of young children, could not believe he was scheduling it like this. (He was Christmas-ing somewhere on the Eastern seaboard and wanted his flights covered by the company.) She set me up in the most charming bed &amp; breakfast in the area, believing I should have some benefit from the risk.  Of course,the snowflakes were mounting on the tree branches outside my window when I woke up.  It was beautiful. And if staying there by myself didn&#8217;t mean missing my son&#8217;s 2nd Christmas and my husband&#8217;s first in the USA, I might have considered it.  The meeting seemed excruciatingly long as I could see the unstopping flurries outside, when I dared look at a window. As I had nabbed the last Subaru Outback car rental in town the day before, Mr. Bossman asked that I drive us both to the airport.  I remember how he kept trying to stomp the snow off his black patent leather shoes (with tossles) and would shiver in his nylon baseball jacket. (He&#8217;d lived in Southern California too long to know better?) I did get the last laugh that time, however. As the flight to Chicago was to be the last to leave before the airport shut down, and there were no East Coast take-offs. It was a &#8217;so long sucka&#8230; moment&#8217;. </p>
<p>I think one of the benefits of being married to a Russian is that there is no December 25 tradition. When we met in Paris, the focus of Christmas was food &#8211; a great meal. And we try to keep it there. My own family was so numerous, we never attempted to give each other gifts.  So, up until the children reached school-age, my Christmas&#8217;s were pretty easy. I still try to keep the children&#8217;s expectations in line with fiscal realities, but I&#8217;ve given in some to the peer pressure and get them gifts.  New Years is big &#8212; again food-wise and then on Russian Christmas we get to pull out the caviar dish again. (Sometimes we do an Orthodox service, which I actually enjoy, despite my last post on the subject which might lead you to think the contrary.)</p>
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		<title>By: Cyrill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cyrill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;that clause is assumed to apply to both elements of the compound subject&lt;/i&gt;

Perfect. No wonder kids come out with no brains if they are taught not to think but assume that grammar trumps geography. 

But thank you for the lesson, I appreciate all the help I can get in learning English. I wish I could ever understand articles.</description>
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<p>Perfect. No wonder kids come out with no brains if they are taught not to think but assume that grammar trumps geography. </p>
<p>But thank you for the lesson, I appreciate all the help I can get in learning English. I wish I could ever understand articles.</p>
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		<title>By: Kolya</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kolya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tess, you mentioned that having young kids you are very busy with Christmas and all that. Here in Vermont it&#039;s incredibly beautiful to walk the quiet streets at night: with all that deep snow, the Christmas lights, and the Christmas trees visible through the windows, homes here look wonderfully cheerful, cozy and warm.

Merry Chistmas to you and to everyone else!

(And I mean everyone--whether you celebrate or not. You know under what sentiment I meant this.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tess, you mentioned that having young kids you are very busy with Christmas and all that. Here in Vermont it&#8217;s incredibly beautiful to walk the quiet streets at night: with all that deep snow, the Christmas lights, and the Christmas trees visible through the windows, homes here look wonderfully cheerful, cozy and warm.</p>
<p>Merry Chistmas to you and to everyone else!</p>
<p>(And I mean everyone&#8211;whether you celebrate or not. You know under what sentiment I meant this.)</p>
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		<title>By: tess</title>
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		<dc:creator>tess</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cyrill, 

If you had ever been schooled by any of the wonderful California public school teachers I&#039;ve seen at work in the classroom, you would know that when you add a descriptive clause to a prepositional phrase that has a compound subject like &quot;of Norway and Canada&quot; that clause is assumed to apply to both elements of the compound subject.  Hence, Khabar&#039;s question.  Of course, if one is a lazy fat-ass composer of sentences, these misunderstandings are inevitable.

Norway or Canada where some 90% of population lives within 100 miles from US economy and can benefit from it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cyrill, </p>
<p>If you had ever been schooled by any of the wonderful California public school teachers I&#8217;ve seen at work in the classroom, you would know that when you add a descriptive clause to a prepositional phrase that has a compound subject like &#8220;of Norway and Canada&#8221; that clause is assumed to apply to both elements of the compound subject.  Hence, Khabar&#8217;s question.  Of course, if one is a lazy fat-ass composer of sentences, these misunderstandings are inevitable.</p>
<p>Norway or Canada where some 90% of population lives within 100 miles from US economy and can benefit from it.</p>
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