FROM RUSSIA WITH HATE

Our country's news channels are hesitant to refer to thecurrent economic downturn as a recession, hinting at it by calling it "the R word." Funny how we have to get our news from abroad.

U.S. Is in No Shape to Give Advice, Medvedev Says

MOSCOW — Russia’s new president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, less swaggering than his predecessor but as touchy about criticism from abroad, said in an interview that an America in “essentially a depression” was in no position to lecture other countries on how to conduct their affairs.


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