some links 11/02/2014 (p.m.)

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  Putin’s Friend Profits in Purge of Schoolbooks - NYTimes.com
  
  "By the time the school year began this fall, the number of approved textbooks for Russia’s 14 million schoolchildren had been slashed by more than half. The summary winnowing by the Ministry of Education and Science upset lesson plans, threatened the livelihoods of nearly two-dozen small publishers and left principals, teachers and parents puzzled and angry.
  There was, however, one standout winner: A publishing house whose newly appointed chairman was a member of President Vladimir V. Putin’s inner circle, Arkady R. Rotenberg, a judo sparring partner from Mr. Putin’s St. Petersburg youth."
  
  tags: dlj .en школа учебник :( Путин Ротенберг
  

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