Easter Special: The sweetest feeling
s soon we’ve got all the Christmas festivities out of the way, it seems that the promotional drive for Easter begins. But apart from buying lots of chocolate and Easter eggs for the children, we don’t really celebrate with much else these days. Maybe it’s because religion isn’t as present in our lives as it used to be, and so these festive occasions get missed off the social calendar. In Italy and other European countries, however, they seem to be more symbolic and important. In the food world, Easter also marks the beginning of spring, which is the time when we start eating spring lamb - a common Easter Sunday roast all over Europe (though in countries such as Greece, it’s more likely to be kid goat).
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Putin moves to stay on beyond term limit
One of Russia’s most influential politicians has unexpectedly called for the country’s constitution to be amended to allow Vladimir Putin to stay on as President for a third consecutive term beyond next year. The plea, by Sergei Mironov, the Federation Council Speaker, raises the spectre of Mr Putin remaining in the Kremlin for a further seven years. Anointed by Boris Yeltsin in 1999 and then formally voted into office in March of the following year, Mr Putin is coming to the end of his second four-year term, a prospect that has many wondering anxiously what will come next.
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300 (trailer)
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Welcome to Sarajevo
There are few undiscovered cities in Europe. Sarajevo is one of them. For all sorts of reasons, mainly war-related, travellers have been reluctant to go there unless, like soldiers and reporters, they had a professional reason to do so. Now the dangers are in the past and Bosnia is as safe for visitors as any country in Europe - safer than most, in my view. And for old hands like myself the most remarkable innovation is the freedom of movement granted by the blessed absence of roadblocks.
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Is Time Running Out for Tibet?
Exiled in India, he is Tibet’s most successful international spokesperson. The Dalai Lama receives pilgrims from all over the world — but the future of Tibet remains bleak. And Beijing is calculating that international interest in Tibet will dwindle once he dies.
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Russian counterfeiters prefer the euro
In an interview with a currency magazine Alexander Prokopchuk, deputy head of Interpol’s National Central Bureau at the Russian interior ministry, said, “In 2006, 1,138 forfeited banknotes worth 106,440 euros were confiscated in Russia, [against 979 forfeited euro banknotes in 2005].”
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US attack on Iran set for April 6th
The long awaited US military attack on Iran is now on track for the first week of April, specifically for 4 am on April 6, the Good Friday opening of Easter weekend, writes the well-known Russian journalist Andrei Uglanov in the Moscow weekly “Argumenty Nedeli.” Uglanov cites Russian military experts close to the Russian General Staff for his account.
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