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		<title>Soviet Film Classics: Office Romance (Sluzhebnyy Roman)</title>
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		<title>Soviet Film Classics: The Irony of Fate (Ironiya Sud&#8217;by)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Russians loved history and tradition, but liked to be led and could not get organised.&#8217; &#8211; a line I wrote myself; but one that in the light of the current protests in Russia suddenly seems outdated. So what&#8217;s happened? Firstly, it seems Putin and his team have dropped a catch, and it&#8217;s a dolly they&#8217;ve put down. Somehow they&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saulpope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6734568&amp;post=465&amp;subd=saulpope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Killing 2&#8242;: Come back Troels Hartmann, your country needs you!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>My favourite places in St. Petersburg no. 2: New Holland Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also by The Slacker: mystery novel &#8216;New Holland&#8217; &#8216;meticulously researched&#8230;offers a vivid insight into modern Russia&#8217; &#160; &#160; &#160; Walking through the centre of St. Petersburg, you&#8217;ll not fail to be impressed: the buildings are bright, imposing, powerful, beautiful &#8211; and perhaps a little overwhelming at times. If you find this is the case, ask [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saulpope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6734568&amp;post=447&amp;subd=saulpope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My favourite places in St. Petersburg no.1: Avtovo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also by The Slacker: mystery novel &#8216;New Holland&#8217; &#8216;meticulously researched&#8230;offers a vivid insight into modern Russia&#8217; For those of you not lucky enough to have visited, St. Petersburg is a fascinating place. In turns beautiful and ugly, cultured and brutal, inspiring and depressing &#8211; it&#8217;s a place nobody is indifferent to. Following five years living there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saulpope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6734568&amp;post=435&amp;subd=saulpope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Glyn Pope Interview</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Couch Potato caught up with Glyn Pope, author of &#8216;The Doctor, The Plutocrat and The Mendacious Minister&#8230; First of all Saul, thanks for interviewing me on your blog. In case any of your readers are wondering, we are uncle and nephew. Anyway, on with your questions: 1) In a nutshell, what&#8217;s &#8216;The Doctor, The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saulpope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6734568&amp;post=431&amp;subd=saulpope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fixed matches in Russia? Part 5 (with video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also by The Slacker: mystery novel &#8216;New Holland&#8217; &#8216;meticulously researched&#8230;offers a vivid insight into modern Russia&#8217; &#160; &#160; &#160; The rumours started about yesterday&#8217;s Volga Nizhniy Novgorod &#8211; Spartak Nalchik game earlier in the week. Volga were going to win. Betfair took a little more money on this game than other similar weekend matches (though not a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saulpope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6734568&amp;post=426&amp;subd=saulpope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also by The Slacker: mystery novel &#8216;New Holland&#8217; &#8216;meticulously researched&#8230;offers a vivid insight into modern Russia&#8217; &#160; The Fifth Woman The one where Wallander investigates the cruel murder of an old man, which is then followed by other murders that appear at first glance unrelated. Not for the first time, Wallander is left contemplating the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saulpope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6734568&amp;post=413&amp;subd=saulpope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing club: a pint with your protagonist? Absolutely!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also by The Slacker: mystery novel &#8216;New Holland&#8217; &#8216;&#8230;well-observed&#8230;offers a vivid insight in modern Russia&#8230;&#8217; Available for less than two pounds on Amazon! &#160; Last night I went for a meal with all of the characters in the novel I&#8217;m working on. After that we went for a drink in a pub, then we came [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saulpope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6734568&amp;post=415&amp;subd=saulpope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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