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Pestiside examines Hungarian government plans for the sell-off of Budapest Airport, advising potential investors to fasten their seat-belts and prepare for turbulence.
Siberian Light's Andy, sitting in a Burger King in Glasgow Airport, wonders if Russian President Vladimir Putin will indeed step down at the end of his second term, as is required by the constitution.
Neeka hangs out with a former love, beautiful but terribly damaged, and is relieved to discover she can recover the good memories but doesn't have to go back to old times.
Omnik Krikorian offers a brief history of rock music in the former Soviet Union in general, and in Armenia in particular.
Nathan at Registan rounds up his reasons for not believing rumours that the U.S. is talking to Turkmenistan about a potential location for a military base.
Zimpundit points out that the Zimbabwean finance minister is a proponent of free-market economic policies, and is trying to persuade President Robert Mugabe to try freeing prices.
FYR looks for some humorous distraction as protests continue on outside his workplace. He also says Bruce Golding, who called for the protests, has definitely lost his vote.
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...