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After Anna Chapman, Another Eastern Bloc Beauty Arrested

By Theunis BatesJul 28th 2010 – 2:34PM
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(July 28) -- The former Soviet bloc seems to have produced a whole generation of danger-loving beauties named Anna. Less than a month after sultry Russian spy Anna Chapman was shipped back to the motherland, another gorgeous Anna -- this time with the more Slavic surname Fermanova -- has been busted for allegedly trying to...

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  • 06/01/12 Eight EU members fail to join the euro Source: Ministry of Commerce of the People`s Republic of China None of the eight European Union (EU) member states willing to join the now 17-member eurozone has met membership criteria, the European Central Bank (ECB) said on Wednesday.
  • 05/31/12 Latvia ratifies EU's fiscal discipline treaty Source: Estonia Times Latvian lawmakers have ratified the European Union's proposed fiscal treaty designed to enforce budgetary discipline among the bloc's 27 members and stem the debilitating economic crisis.
  • 05/31/12 OLF: “Olainfarm” makes another record profit: 2.4... Source: National Stock Exchange of Lithuania Consolidated profit and loss account of AS „Olainfarm" for the first quarter of 2012 shows that the Concern has set yet another profits record of 2.4 million lats (3.4 million euros). This is an increase by 40% compared to the first quarter of 2011 when the company made the net profit of 1.7 million lats (2.4 million euros). This has so far been the most profitable quarter in corporate.
  • 05/31/12 Latvia ratifies EU fiscal discipline pact Source: EUbusiness - UK Latvia became the latest European Union member to approve the bloc's fiscal pact, a raft of measures designed to tighten fiscal discipline seen as key to shoring up the debt-laden eurozone.
  • 05/30/12 Making the invisible visible - The Baltic Times Source: The Baltic Times Straight people scare the crap out of me.

Background on Latvia

Latvia (), officially the Republic of Latvia (), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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