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• UK Cabinet Office ‘nudge’ team to be spun off into private group - FT.com

  "Ministers are poised to launch one of the biggest experiments in British public sector reform when they move a Cabinet Office team into a private company. It will be the first time the government has privatised civil servants responsible for policy decisions."

  tags: unitedkingdom uk health england government ppp

• Beer-delivering drone grounded - SmartPlanet

  "Drones might be a suitable solution to send beer out onto a frozen lake, but crafty brewers that were delivering to ice fishermen in Minnesota have been grounded. A company called Lakemaid Beer was flying beer out to fishing shacks -- under the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) radar -- until regulators took notice of its YouTube advertisements."

  tags: drones beer entrepreneurship business

• Kremlin Analysts Push For Ukraine Annexation - The Daily Beast

  "Russian experts have started using loaded WWII-era language to talk about a solution to the ‘Ukrainian Question’ and to advocate controlling parts of the country in a version of USSR 2.0. As Ukraine’s protests have spiraled into violence over the past month, forcing the prime minister to resign and destabilizing the iron grip of President Viktor Yanukovych, one looming question has hung over the events of the EuroMaidan: What will Putin do?"

  tags: ukraine ussr russia politics europe

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