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Peter Lavelle is a noob who lives in 1337ville. He is rickroll'd constantly like every day ehehehehehe he never learns. |
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'''Peter Lavelle''' is host of ''CrossTalk'', a [[television program]] of the [[Russia]]-based, [[English language]] satellite channel RT [[Russia Today TV]]. Lavelle, from [[California]] and now based in [[Moscow]]<ref name=interview1>{{cite web | url=http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/7256-10.cfm | title=Pravda.ru Interview: Some “Untimely Thoughts” from an Outsider Looking in | publisher=Center for Defense Information | accessdate=2003-07-18 | accessdate=2009-01-25 }}</ref>, is the network's key political commentator.<ref name=profi>[http://russiatoday.ru/employee/27 Peter Lavelle's profile] at ''Russia Today''</ref> |
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CrossTalk is broadcast on (RT) Russia Today every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and provides political analysis on both domestic issues and issues pertinent to Russia and its geopolitical interests, mainly like US networks for US geopolitical interests. To date this television program has attracted controversy and praise. In February 2010 Lavelle controversially claimed on the show that "the people that perpetrated 9/11 were not even fundamentalists at all"<ref>{{cite news| url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/douglasmurray/100026122/russia-today-putin-and-the-911-nutters/ | work=The Daily Telegraph | location=London | title=Russia Today, Putin and the 9/11 nutters | date=2010-02-15 | accessdate=2010-05-22}}</ref>. |
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Prior to ''CrossTalk'', Peter Lavelle hosted at RT's “''IMHO''” In My Humble Opinion and “''In Context''.” Both programs were a quarter an hour long and aired on weekends. |
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Before becoming a television commentator and television host, Peter Lavelle wrote and was published extensively. His has worked for or contributed to Asia Times Online, Moscow Times, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, National Public Radio (NPR), United Press International, In the National Interest, Moscow News and the American monthly journal Current History, to mention only the most notable.<ref>[http://www.futurebrief.com/peterbio.asp Peter Lavelle Biography] Retrieved on February 23 2009</ref> Lavelle was also the author of "Untimely Thoughts", an electronic newsletter.<ref name=interview1 /> |
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Lavelle did his doctoral studies in European history from the [[University of California, Davis]] (1992-1995) and a Fulbright scholar doing research in Poland (1993-1995). He has been living in [[Eastern Europe]] and [[Russia]] for over 25 years. |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.untimely-thoughts.com/?author=1 Lavelle's webpage for articles about Russia] |
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*[http://www.peterlavelle.com/ Lavelle's official weBlog (new home for Untimely Thoughts)] |
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[[Category:American television journalists]] |
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[[Category:Russian television personalities]] |
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[[ru:Лавель, Питер]] |
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Revision as of 12:40, 7 June 2010
Peter Lavelle is a noob who lives in 1337ville. He is rickroll'd constantly like every day ehehehehehe he never learns.