(nr 109 ) Northern Rock is another big news item in UK: the giant bank (budget twice that of Defence) has been in serious trouble since September 2007 and this week an emergency legislation is to be passed in Parlament for the Bank to be "temporarily nationalized" (the announcement came last Sunday).

Some very interesting facts in 22 pages long article "History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union" on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union

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