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naissance à l’Union africaine et malgache (UAM), regroupant douze pays francophones dont le Sénégal de Senghor. Des accords sont signés et resserrent la solidarité des Ėtats francophones, notamment dans les domaines économique, militaire, et des postes et télécommunications. Mais en mai 1963, la création de l’Organisation de l’unité africaine (OUA) vient perturber ses plans : les tenants du panafricanisme exigent la dissolution de tous les regroupements régionaux dont l’UAM ; le président ivoirien cède à contrecœur, et transforme, en mars 1964, l’UAM en Organisation africaine et malgache de coopération économique et culturelle.

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I used your talk page to discuss it with you about it which by the way you hadn't even thought about going to the 2008 discussion page when you kept reverting another editor's edit's about the subject. As you said " we will all discuss the mater and a consensus will be reached,that's kind of the the

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User changed numbers in military budgets of Russia(from $ 41bn to $ 45bn) and U.S.(from $ 583bn to $ 141bn). Lars T reverted one of his edits and I did the same with the second one. How's that a vandalism? Well, statement on how big is "real" russian defence spending is probably shouldn't be there,

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If you don't mind some friendly personal advice, I think it's time to let the discussion drop, or at least cool off for a couple of days. Both you and Pistolpierre are spending more time attacking each other than discussing the subject; and I'm going to leave a note on his talk page saying the same

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Have a look? Since our discussion I've beefed up the pre-2008 section considerably. However, I think I've pretty much exhausted the online resources, so if you disagree with the title based on the current state we'd better discuss it. Also, I've reworked the intro to fit the broader article better,

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Hey FFMG i think there is a confusion in the west about the russian military spending because the figures for the national defence in 2009 is 1.278 billion rubles around $ 50 billion, but the Russian defence budget is split in two, there is also the national security budget, that budget is

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The sizes are - and —, the second looks lot cleaner and it is found in many places 2009, 2010, etc. The sizes are mixed in places so we need to use only one size. I had spent hours changing the size to — but you undid and you did not happen to see about March using the — and rest converted to - by

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The difference is the south africa article is not about your site or services but the country itself therefore if you add your website to that article then you are advertising it whereas the companies you talked about which are notable enough to be on wikipedia should have links to their websites.

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hi , wow , you're the first person i've met on wikipedia that lives in south africa. did you know that only 8%of durban is white! i love south africa and especialy statistics. Please could you tell me more about the country i used to live in , i was reasonably young when i left the beautiful (now

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i am afraid that its only your opinion as to what level "notable" can be. In my opinion our website is actually very informative as to what is available to tourists and locals alike in south africa. I think our site is relevent in that category and provides the person who might look at it just as

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so the Russian Defence budget is 2.363 billion rubles, thats $ 91.400.300 billion and that is almost the same figures that Vladimir Putin was saying in Sep 16 'Nearly 2.4 trillion rubles ($ 94.23 billion) will be allocated for the needs of national defence and security,' Putin said. 'This is an

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Well usually when someone breaks 3RR another tends to reports it and tell them about their 3RR report however i think you right that we should warn him firsthand when he reverts again (i think he done so about 4 times already) but he if he ignores that warning then a report would be definatly be

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Please help me with what size should be used. I don't know how to settle with what size on the 2008 discussion page, so can you please start or help on how to reach a settlement across Knowledge (XXG) (2009, 2010, 2011, and so on need be on the same standard) or is there standard already there?

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The report of revert war is overdue by three times. What should we do, no one else comes up and helps on this user's problem (or misunderstanding). This user happens to be affected by the shooting due to the locality of it. I think it is the time to do something, we or someone else should give

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Ambitieux, le leader ivoirien conçoit de plus grands desseins pour l'espace francophone d’Afrique ; il prétend le regrouper au sein d’une grande organisation dont le but serait de se soutenir mutuellement. Le projet se concrétise le 7 septembre 1961, lors de la signature de la charte donnant

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K well if he reverts one more time then we have no choice but to report him, the number of editors that has disagree with him is now at 4 inclu. me and you. There is a list of admins that we can check to contact if the editor in question decides to act again. For the cookie no problemo ;)

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destroyed) country. Ive been to durban and i went on the beaches , but i was scared of the waves! i used to live in johannesburg, but now i live in england , please tell me about your life , i see you are from france!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i can speak a bit of french but not alot. au revoir!

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I'm simply tired to see English speaking medias shoot in the back France (making huge biaise), and French speaking medias doing the same on USA-England just to sell more "papers". I strongly hope that wikipedia will be strong enough to don't contribute to this mess. Regards,

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I've been watching this page for quite a while now and their seems to be some conflict over whether the entry in the table for NATO should have the NATO flag next to it. Could you tell me why this is? It seems strange to me that this be the only entry without an identifying

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Hello! You're right, there's no way that we can check if the numbers are correct or not if we don't buy the book. However, I have an older report (2004-2005) there the numbers are roughly the same, (page 22-23 by the way) so I'm quite sure we can trust these figures.

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In France's article, you reverted User:WikiWitch's edits, in which she said that you must only use official sources, and said there was a discussion to include those sources. What kind of discussion allows that? Isn't that damaging to the article?

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in the paragraph bellow? I've looked it up, but the meanings I've found on dictionaries where not what I was expecting by judging from the context. Is it being used to mean restrict, define, strengthen? (or something else?). Very big thanks!

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article. But after i have remove the Obama bit Rlogan2 otherwise known as Emperorofblackpeopleeverywhere (or something like that) has reverted me, i would remove the Obama bit again but then the editor would just revert again. Any ideas?

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As I said to you on the other page, no, I wont, if you want to change something add a reference to it, (wikipedia itself is not a source). Otherwise you might as well leave it the way it was. Adding a statement is POV and has no place

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I reverted your edits to the article. You say a killing of a teenager in a american school which gain notable media coverage a domestic news event that shouldn't be included but if you look at the article there is a section called

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I included a ref with the 419 section, so it is very important that you pay attention. The ref discusses 419 in Johannesburg at the very end. I posted this on your talk page because this is very important for you to remember.

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Yeah, so lets hold on, if s/he comes back alone or with-someone, we will discuss more. If still s/he keeps restoring, one of us will give warning over revert war. Then if still continued, we will report to a administrator. —

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Hi, I think you're being much too quick to delete. A United Nations report is hardly a 'dubious' source. And the reports cited ALL do make reference to events in Durban. If you take the time to read them through you'll see.

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i suppose that an artical about tourism, supposedly 10%of the gdp, deserves the few lines youve given it and preventing relevent toursim sites from listing to give the users a better idea of whats on offer is not logical

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I am sorry if I made you upset. I am not a troll. If you want to classify Bonaparte as a Roman Catholic go ahead. It is not really worth arguing about. As far as Bush goes, I could care less how you perceive him.

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you will find the text "It has come to the attention of the South African Police Service that a scheme is active in the Johannesburg area, whereby any person can open an anonymous bank account in a European country."

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of national anthems I have added Saint-Barthelemy (which has its own anthem) and fixed the alphabetizing on St. Kitts and Nevis. However you have reverted this twice. I have set out my reasons for the additions at

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Update, i reverted him again saying that 3 people inclu. me and you disagree with him only for him to revert again and for him to say "three people doesnt constitue right from wrong..and i could care less".

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what is the reason u keep editing out our listing and contact info about tours in south africa everyone has the right to know about our companny and the tours on offer for tourists and south africans alike

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The problem is not with the Russian figures, it is with the other changes you are making on the page. Just change the Russian values, move _all_ the numbers down by one and leave everything else alone.

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I am not sure what you are referring to. Originally I reverted the edit and gave a reason. Others disagreed/agreed and a discussion was started, go there if you want to discuss it further.

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I acknowledge, but still you are saying to use two different sizes. I did not introduce a new size but rather two different sizes were already there on a single article. Please help me.

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I don't know what the "ft" is. I merely read her summary, and I thought it strange when reading yours that a discussion would allow sources another user identified as "unofficial".

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but I have to admit it is not necessarily an improvement. The original intro was well and independently sourced; the new one is an unsourced synthesis of the rest of the article.

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I removed the bit about Obama due to the discussions we had and i think due to me, you and another guy agree that Obama becoming a democrat nominee shouldnt be included in the

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Personally I think that the short dash should be used, because it is common to all computers, the longer dash is, (I think), only used on Microsoft computers, (from MS Word).

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only for Rlogan2 as usual to revert again, i have revert him saying that the trivia is irrelevant and that but yet again he chose to break the 3RR with a edit summary of

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I don't know how should we explain to this user, it has kept adding the entry and has written the same analogy (or ideology) as before, which is still in non-notable. —

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If you see 2 kind of dashes, (for example), then ask the one you should use rather than making an arbitrary choice yourself and changing articles all over the place.

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The next step is compressing the May 2008 section with more abstraction and less blow-by-blow. But I'm uncomfortable doing that before the name debate is settled.

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were not written by Nedbank employees, (well I don't think so anyway), it was written by people who have some sort of interest in the South African banking system.

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Just seen that the editor has ignored us and the discussion on the talk page, i think it is time to report him as his behaviour is unacceptable on wikipedia.

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that death needed to be notable. To 'decide' what was notable or not it was agreed that a personality with 9 or more articles translated would be 'notable'.

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Please do no use my talk page to be condescending. Your section has no place in many articles you have added it to today, please try to understand that point.

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I suggest you take a few minutes to familiarise yourself with the way wikipedia works. It is an encyclopedia, not an advertising board. Other companies like

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It is nice to have a standard, but for that kind of things you need to talk with many other editors and come to an agreement as to what is best. Use the

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If your site/company is truly notable then someone will come along and write an article about it. This is why only a handful of websites have articles, (

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1.085 billion rubles around $ 41 billion, the national security budget is the budget that takes care of the Russian military salaries and pensions.

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Ah I see. I wrongly assumed that there was some sort of ideological basis for the conflict. Instead it's perfectly uncontroversial image licensing.----

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edit declaring Tim Russert to be non-notable? He was one of the most distinguished American journalists of our time, and his death was included in our

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No, it is not my opinion. Please don't try to see it as 'my opinion vs your opinion', this is the way wikipedia has been doing things for a long time.

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what do you think? shall it not be mentioned that the Russian defence budget is $ 91.400.300 billion in 2009, and not only $ 50 billion.

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far as im concerned our site gives a lot of info that the current page does not with regards what is on offer for tourists in south africa :(

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In future please sign your comments so I know who I am replying to, or even better create an account, I don't like talking to IP addresses.

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into English, the translation is now mostly complete, but we are still revising the whole thing. Anyway, could you tell me the meaning of

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I think we should revert his changes one more time, (if need be), and then give him a warning. If he continues we can then report him.

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Hello again i have yet again manage to come across the same user on a another article, the user keeps adding irrelevent trivia to the

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Please lets reach the consensus first. There does not seem to be any references making the song the official anthem of Saint Bart.

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Knowledge (XXG) is not against linking to 'outside' websites, if linking helps as a reference for example. If an article is about

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http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session1/ZA/COHRE_ZAF_UPR_S1_2008_CentreonHousingRightsandEvictions_uprsubmission.pdf

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This is not my decision to have this in the intro either. If you look at the discussion page the consensus was to leave it as is.

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me to do anything, we will all discuss the mater and a a consensus will be reached, that's kind of the the way wikipidia works.

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i can see u r lost, the vodacom and mtn sites open not to an article but to the respective homepages - what is the difference

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I added citations of various kidnapping and murder cases in South Africa in the 1990s and 2000s to supplement the section.

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added a new section on cell phones and telling us what great deals they have this summer then we would also remove it.

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article, clearly it was not written by a Nationwide employee and this is why it does not promote any of their products.

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where many domestic events lies that does not nesserary neeed to be in there. I ask you to leave the event as it is.

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Thanks I can't believe I missed that one :). We were scheduled to have some load shedding to I had to rush the edit.

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As the Financial Time is a well respected publication some think that it is a better reference than the wiki page.

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examples (a few only) are netcare, all the cell phone companies, all the banks, computicket to name just a few

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I see you're a native french speaker. A number of people are trying to translate the french featured article

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School murders are all too common in many countries, not sure why that particular murder is any different.

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As per the talk page, some users consider the wikipidia economics page to be up to date. Others disagree.

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It seems as if there are many other commercial sites with links on this page - why the dual standard?

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Thanks for the info I have updated the article with a newer link, (and more recent USD/EUR rate).

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Now I know why rollback is such a fabulous idea. Is it too early to wish you a good weekend?!

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hello just want to update german defence budget for 2007 $ 37.5 billion but it is protected.

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In any case the reference he is giving is not even related to the entry he is trying to add.

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to ask people what they think about such a change, if many agree then maybe it will be done.

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If you look at the section that was reverted, there is a link from FT.com, (ref 6 I think).

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Please see page 28 of this report by an international human rights organisation in geneva:

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You came here and instructed me not to revert anymore with some rather dubious reasoning.

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Maybe the other user feels you need to use a website as a source, not offline material?

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I'll have a look and remove site that promote their products without adding any value.

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And, at the end of the day, you were blatantly trying to promote your products in the

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why delete the russian military spending for 2009 the figures is almost $ 95 billion

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I also don't see what you mean by 'official', is the ft not a good enough reference?

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That user is trying to recruit more people to help argument on NIU notability, here

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Ok thanks but i dont know how to do that i am not aware of the problem

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you can see the figures on this page, it is in Russian but you can translate.

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much "value" and information as any of the other numerous obvious commercial links.

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It is in the talk page, some valid points are raised about what data is 'better'

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the article is usually deleted. I know it is hard to believe but the article on

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If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the

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Thanks, but this is not my tool, I just use it to give a summary of the edits.

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Sorry, just randomly came across this little exchange and can't stop laughing.

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accords are signed and bring together the solidarity of francophone sates

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http://www.wdif.net/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=249

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predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!

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predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!

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predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!

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predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!

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Your contributions make Knowledge (XXG) better -- thanks for helping.

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Your contributions make Knowledge (XXG) better -- thanks for helping.

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Your contributions make Knowledge (XXG) better -- thanks for helping.

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Your contributions make Knowledge (XXG) better -- thanks for helping.

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For your contributions thought you might like a cookie as an award -

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http://en.wikipedia.org/Armed_Forces_of_the_Russian_Federation#Budget

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P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on

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You cannot just change something like that without first reaching a

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undoing. Can you please collaborate and maybe even help me. Thanks.

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P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on

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P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on

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P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on

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have articles, not to promote themselves but to inform the reader.

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