tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post4316117823582677854..comments2023-10-06T10:10:06.982-04:00Comments on La Russophobe: Popping Putin's Fraudulent BalloonLa Russophobehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-70862114005607544922007-12-28T11:51:00.000-05:002007-12-28T11:51:00.000-05:00Can't be bothered debunking it all so let's take j...Can't be bothered debunking it all so let's take just one example.<BR/><BR/>"In a useful corrective to the conventional wisdom just published by Foreign Affairs magazine, Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss of Stanford University cite official Russian statistics to show that the average annual total of murders increased from 30,200 between 1995 and 1999 to 32,200 between 2000 and 2004. "<BR/><BR/>http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/2007/b07_11/05-07.htm<BR/><BR/>Murder rate / 100,000<BR/>1992 = 23<BR/>1995 = 31<BR/>2000 = 28<BR/>2001 = 30<BR/>2002 = 31<BR/>2003 = 29<BR/>2004 = 27<BR/>2005 = 25<BR/>2006 = 20<BR/>2007 = 18 (preliminary) data<BR/><BR/>-----Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-64856906127211309752007-12-26T13:52:00.000-05:002007-12-26T13:52:00.000-05:00http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1752[A]t his very f...http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1752<BR/><BR/>[A]t his very first meeting with Putin, Putin told [Bush] a story about a cross that he had blessed in Israel that used to belong to his grandmother. People that are aware of this conversation at the State Department feel that the President got played by Putin. There is no cross. There was just some KGB story that he made up. But it had a real impact on President Bush. That’s when he walked out and said, ‘I looked into his soul and decided this is the guy I can work with.’ And for the longest time in the first term, if you talked to then National Security Adviser Rice, she always painted the relationship with Russia in very rosy terms. …”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com