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January 5th, 2013
03:37 PM ET
OutFront Recap: Fiscal Cliff averted, Russia President collects French movie stars
At the eleventh hour - Congress approves a deal to avert the fiscal cliff and Russian President Vladimir Putin may have an unlikely new citizen.
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@Jazzie654 Oh yea. They’re omnipresent. But this guy - he is the epitome of calm when he realizes. Who wouldn’t stwitter.com/i/web/status/1…gp09vC
RT @CNN: CNN’@ErinBurnetttt speaks with David Whelan, the brother of Paul Whelan, who is wrongfully detained in Russia, about Paul’s well-b…
RT @CNN: Konstantin Yefremov, a Russian soldier who fled Russia after he was dismissed from the army for refusing to return to Ukraine, spe…
Part of our conversation: vimeo.com/795428219/6aec….
He says this to Ukrainians: “ I ask the Ukrainian people for forgiveness, that I came to their land with a gun in my hand”.
Actually a pretty good recap of Christmas break, thanks Leinz. Luckily, CNN in India was still carrying Situation Room (morning show over there). Apparently, there's no Hindi word for "fiscal cliff." Also discovered there were no Hindi words for "hobbits," "orcs," or "elves," but the voiceover for Gollum was still hilarious.