Obey: Russia to warn Obama on Georgia

On his first visit to Russia as president, Obama is due to hold nine hours of talks with President Dmitry Medvedev and share a breakfast with prime minister Vladimir Putin...

She's 26 and She's a Billionaire's Girlfriend.

Meet Dasha Zhukova. Young, gorgeous, ridiculously wealthy, and the girlfriend of one of the wealthiest men in the world, Roman Abramovich.

Zhukova, 26, is something else, too: a major force in the fashion world. Her label, Kova & T, sells in over 70 stores around the world with a mission to prove that Russians are the biggest and best luxury consumers on the planet...

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Russia: End of U.S. Domination

The Russian president said in a speech Thursday that the financial crisis in the United States should be taken as a sign that America's global economic leadership is drawing to a close....

Speaking of the United States, Russian President Medvedev said the world no longer needed a "megaregulator."

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The U.S. Suffers: Russia Has Billions To Burn.

While America is paying the price (for years to come), for its unstoppable greed for cash and credit, the Russians(Petro Rich) can afford to spend $100 million on a Townhouse near the Kremlin........

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1962: U.S. Threatened With Nuclear Attack

Cuban Missile Crisis:

The Cuban Missile Crisis began on October 14, 1962, when American U-2 spy planes took photographs of a Soviet intermediate-range ballistic missile site under construction in Cuba.

The photos were shown to U.S. President John F. Kennedy on October 16, 1962. America would soon be posed with a serious nuclear threat. Kennedy faced a dilemma: if the U.S. attacked the sites, it might lead to nuclear war with the U.S.S.R., but if the U.S. did nothing, it would endure the threat of nuclear weapons being launched from close range. Because the weapons were in such proximity, the U.S. might have been unable to retaliate if they were launched pre-emptively. Another consideration was that the U.S. would appear to the world as weak in its own hemisphere.

Many military officials and cabinet members pressed for an air assault on the missile sites, but Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine in which the U.S. Navy inspected all ships arriving in Cuba.

He began negotiations with the Soviets and ordered the Soviets to remove all defensive material that was being built on Cuba. Without doing so, the Soviet and Cuban peoples would face naval quarantine.

A week later, he and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev reached an agreement.

Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles subject to U.N. inspections if the U.S. publicly promised never to invade Cuba and quietly removed US missiles stationed in Turkey.

Following this crisis, which brought the world closer to nuclear war than at any point before or since, Kennedy was more cautious in confronting the Soviet Union.

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