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There are so many blogs out there churning out good stories that sometimes I just can’t keep up. So, here are a few of the blog posts that have caught my attention in the past few days:

Mikhail (Misha two percent) Kasyanov looks like he’ll be the unified opposition candidate in the 2008 Presidential elections, writes Mark MacKinnon.
How do you sum up the fall of the Soviet Union in a picture? Darkness at Noon investigates.
Naming and shaming - Sean reports on how Russian companies are taking a hardline with customers who are reluctant to pay their bills on time.
Video footage of the 1956 Sputnik launch, courtesy of Russian Kafe.
A tale of two oligarchs, from Russia Blog.
And two posts from Grigory Pasko over at Robert Amsterdam. First, a story about attitudes to radioactive waste in Angarsk (fine town, people should write about it more) and second, a report about development in Listvyanka, the village where everyone meets Baikal for the first time.