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class="l-wrap m-oh"><div class="l-maincolumn"><div class="b-opinion"><h3 class="b-title "><a href="/web/20160305130616/http://sputniknews.com/analysis/">Analysis & Opinion</a></h3><ul class="b-opinion__list "><li class="b-opinion__item"><a href="/web/20160305130616/http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160304/1035793829/russia-agriculture-gmo-free.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130616im_/http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/103579/42/1035794266.jpg" width="191" height="118" alt="Harvesting wheat at the fields of the Lebyage-Chepiginskoe JSC in Timashevsky District, Krasnodar Territory" title="Harvesting wheat at the fields of the Lebyage-Chepiginskoe JSC in Timashevsky District, Krasnodar Territory" class=""></a><h4 class="b-opinion__title"><a href="/web/20160305130616/http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160304/1035793829/russia-agriculture-gmo-free.html">Putin's Trump Card: Russia May Outperform the West in Unexpected Way</a></h4><div class="b-opinion__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130616/http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160304/1035793829/russia-agriculture-gmo-free.html">Russia could become one of the world's largest organic food producers, investigative journalist Seth Ferris notes, adding that contrary to the West's expectations Moscow used anti-Russian sanctions to its own advantage.</a></div></li><li class="b-opinion__item"><a href="/web/20160305130616/http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160304/1035777990/kennedy-interview-syria-pipeline.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130616im_/http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/102777/36/1027773631.jpg" width="191" height="118" alt="This undated photo released Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, file photo, on a social media site used by Islamic State militants, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows smoke from the detonation of the 2,000-year-old temple of Baalshamin in Syria's ancient caravan city of Palmyra" title="This undated photo released Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, file photo, on a social media site used by Islamic State militants, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows smoke from the detonation of the 2,000-year-old temple of Baalshamin in Syria's ancient caravan city of Palmyra" class=""></a><h4 class="b-opinion__title"><a href="/web/20160305130616/http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160304/1035777990/kennedy-interview-syria-pipeline.html">Kennedy to Sputnik: 'Pipeline War' is at the Roots of Syrian Crisis</a></h4><div class="b-opinion__announce"><a href="/web/20160305130616/http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160304/1035777990/kennedy-interview-syria-pipeline.html">Radio Sputnik discusses the origins of the Syrian crisis with Robert F. 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