Washington is about to make public a list of Russians to be targeted for financial sanctions and visa bans because of human-rights abuse allegations.

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Events in London and Moscow have also confirmed the list of subjects that Russians concerned for their life expectancy should avoid.

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Or, returning to my initial comments, one wonders whether FIFA voting corruption swayed the vote in favor of the underdog Russians and Qatarian (8th and 14th respectively on the list of top oil producing nations incidentally).

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The Americans have a list of things that they want from the Russians.

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With such a long list of grievances and such deplorable conduct on the part of the Russians, it would have been perfectly understandable if any one of a dozen countries in Central and Eastern Europe waged a violent armed struggle for independence.

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