From: "Mark" 

It's all opera Adam, Putin will be wined and dined in Kennebunkport over
the July 4th weekend and suddenly moderate his position 

"Ad"  wrote in
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> Ah Soviet Communism is truely dead now.....
>
> The Icon of the workers struggle is now subject to a capitalist
> struggle....
>
> http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070316/62123005.html
>
>
> "The production of Russian weapons in eastern Europe without licenses
> causes direct damage to the country's economy and interests, a first
> deputy prime minister said Friday.
>
> "It is not a secret that such production is carried out in a number of
> eastern European countries, including NATO members," Sergei Ivanov said
> adding that the illegal production should be stopped.
>
> He said this is "intellectual piracy," adding that these
countries supply
> Russian weapons to world markets at dumping prices.
>
> "Despite our appeals to these countries, we have received no reasonable
> answer," he said.
>
> Russia says it suffers major losses from the counterfeit manufacture of
> Kalashnikov assault rifles in Bulgaria. The armies of 47 countries use the
> AK-47 assault rifle, known as the Kalashnikov after its designer, Mikhail
> Kalashnikov.
>
> About 100 million AK-47s and modified versions are believed to circulate
> around the world, but many of them are produced illegally. "
>
> A) IP on a 60 year old design? Blimey patents must be totally nuts if
> that's the case.
>
> B) The very epitome of the means of the struggle by the masses against the
> capitalist hierarchy?
>
> ROFLMAO.
>
>
> Try again dude when we've all had time to stop laughing.
>
> Adam
>

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