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President Vladimir Putin will hold his annual press conference and field questions from the public on Dec. 14 -snip- "On the 14th December, Vladimir Putin will sum up the results of the year," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "It will be a programme, a project of the TV channels as before, and it will be a combined format of the Direct Line (live question and answer session with the public) and the President's end of year press conference," said Peskov. -snip- Only Josef Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953, has been in...

Now that the Lakin case has moved away from the guano crazy birther defense devised by Paul Rolf Jensen, it seems time to consider whether LTC Lakin is actually guilty of the charges he faces. As to Charge I and its specification, the answer seems to be, “Not necessarily.” LTC Lakin faces two charges with a total of five specifications. Charge II alleges an Article 92 violation supported by three specifications of disobeying a lawful order and one specification of willful dereliction of duty. (Two pairs of specs appear duplicate one another– one (Spec 3) alleges failure to report to...