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	<title>Emerging Europe Real Time</title>
	
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		<title>Brezhnev Tops List of Most Popular 20th-Century Moscow Rulers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 19:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Kolyandr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Josef Stalin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev is Russia’s most cherished leader of the 20th century, followed by Vladimir Lenin, according to a poll published Wednesday.]]></description>
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		<title>Czech President Yields to Pressure, Faces Ire of Cardinal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Carney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Czech President Milos Zeman Wednesday gave up his opposition to conferring the title of professor to a local historian who’s gay, ending nearly a week of protests by local students, other professors and politicians amid concerns over their academic and civic freedoms.]]></description>
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		<title>Poland Wants to Influence Euro Zone’s Shape</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patryk Wasilewski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Polish government's European Union policy will focus on issues related to increasing the stability and security of institutions that Poland will join in the future, now that the bloc's 2014-2020 budget has essentially been agreed, Poland's deputy foreign affairs minister said in an interview.

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		<title>Hungary Seeks to Soften Premier’s Nazi-Tanks Remark</title>
		<link>http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/05/21/hungary-seeks-to-soften-premiers-nazi-tanks-remark/?mod=WSJBlog</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronika Gulyas</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/?p=6652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hungary's foreign ministry sought Tuesday to patch up ties with Germany over a recent remark by Prime Minister Viktor Orban read as a reference to Germany's Nazi past.]]></description>
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		<title>Bulgaria’s Hung Parliament Fails to Agree on Cabinet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Carney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protracted backroom dealing to allow a functional government to emerge from Bulgaria's hung parliament is now likely after lawmakers in the country's newly elected National Assembly met Tuesday but failed to agree on a cabinet.]]></description>
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		<title>Czech President Courts Controversy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/05/21/czech-president-courts-controversy/?mod=WSJBlog</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Carney and Leos Rousek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/?p=6650</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Czech President Milos Zeman's pledge to be an activist head of state has plunged him into political hot water after he refused to rubber-stamp academic and foreign office appointments, while his lack of composure at a recent solemn event raised eyebrows.]]></description>
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		<title>CEE Morning Briefing: Czech Politics, Polish April Industrial Output in Focus</title>
		<link>http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/05/21/cee-morning-briefing-czech-politics-polish-april-industrial-output-in-focus/?mod=WSJBlog</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leos Rousek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas is due to talk Tuesday at a conference on the future of the country's social security system. He is expected to try to persuade people to give up their reliance on the over-burdened state-run pension system.]]></description>
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		<title>Russia Posts Bleak Growth</title>
		<link>http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/05/20/russia-posts-bleak-growth/?mod=WSJBlog</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrey Ostroukh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/?p=6648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Russia’s economic growth beat the country’s economy ministry expectations in the first quarter, but remains driven mainly by consumption and doesn't look like a harbinger of recovery.]]></description>
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		<title>CEE Morning Briefing: Bulgarian Politics, Polish Job Openings, IMF Czech Report</title>
		<link>http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/05/20/cee-morning-briefing-bulgarian-politics-polish-job-openings-imf-czech-report/?mod=WSJBlog</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leos Rousek and Sean Carney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polish employment and wage readings, Bulgarian politics, and a report by the International Monetary Fund on the Czech economy will be in focus Monday.]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Gay Sentiment Rises in Russia</title>
		<link>http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/05/17/anti-gay-sentiment-rises-in-russia/?mod=WSJBlog</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Kolyandr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost half of Russians think gays and lesbians shouldn’t enjoy the same rights as heterosexual citizens of their country, a poll published Friday showed, also indicating the negative sentiment toward sexual minorities is on the rise.]]></description>
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