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China: Modernization Goes On

15:00 30.09.2010 Alexander Salitsky

China: Modernization Goes On

The 61th anniversary of the Chinese Republic is celebrated in Beijing rather modestly. The country is preoccupied with its current tasks as it faces reemerging inflation, unemployment, excessively fast urbanization, and unrestrained energy consumption. Nevertheless, it is clear that China manages to sustain its exceptional growth and that its march …

What the Future Holds for Venezuela Following the Elections

15:00 29.09.2010 Nil Nikandrov

What the Future Holds for Venezuela Following the Elections

According to the finalized official count, the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) led by president Hugo Chavez won 98 of the 165 seats in the country's parliament, the result achieved by the opposition represented by the Coalition for Democratic Unity (MUD) being 65 seats. Chavez used to express …

Boomerang of terror comes back to France

15:00 29.09.2010 Pyotr Iskenderov

Boomerang of terror comes back to France

Life in France came to a standstill amid report of new threats. The country’s interior minister Brice Hortefeux has urged to raise terror alert level. The French national police director Frederic Pechenard confirmed that new threats were very likely and named public transport among the most probable objects for attacks. …

The Interlocking of Drug Business, Corruption, and Politics

15:00 24.09.2010 Alexander Barentsev

The Interlocking of Drug Business, Corruption, and Politics

A handful of the world's countries are responsible for most of the global drug output (cannabis is the only narcotic culture which has practically unlimited tolerance to climate conditions and can be cultivated in the majority of geographic zones). The Andean Belt countries – Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia – supply …

Referendum in Turkey and US-Made Sufism

15:00 22.09.2010 Leonid Savin

Referendum in Turkey and US-Made Sufism

Turkey's September 12 referendum dealt a sever blow to the positions of secularists in the country. Recep Erdogan's Justice and Development Party secured the support of 58% of the voters for its reform aimed at making the military – the part of the society that has for decades guaranteed the …

Brazil hates to say good-bye to Lula

15:00 21.09.2010 Nil Nikandrov

Brazil hates to say good-bye to Lula

On October 3 the presidential election will be held in Brazil. The current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is completing his second presidential term with an unusually high rating: 81.4%. After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1985 no other Brazilian president could boast such popularity. The main …

Inverted World: Europe and Roma

15:00 20.09.2010 Vladimir Nesterov

Inverted World: Europe and Roma

In 1974 - a year after Great Britain's joining the European Economic Community – young British author Christopher Priest published his Inverted World which portrayed the united Europe as city Earth constructed on top of great wheels and being slowly winched along railroad tracks. The aim of the motion was …

Russia Faces Testing Time in Iran

15:00 20.09.2010 Andrey Areshev

Russia Faces Testing Time in Iran

In an interview with a Russian news agency, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, once again touched upon the so-called Iran’s nuclear problem (actually, instead of the word ‘problem’ Tehran has been using ‘Iran’s nuclear issue’). Mr. Gates repeatedly announced that Washington does not rule out any scenarios, including …

In the Grey Zone: Mladic's Diaries Sensationalized

15:00 20.09.2010 Pyotr Iskenderov

In the Grey Zone: Mladic's Diaries Sensationalized

Italy's La Repubblica presented as a sensational revelation fragments from the diaries of former Bosnian Serbs' army commander R. Mladic [1]. The paper titled Mladic's Horrible Diaries: “We Need to Eliminate Muslims to Build a Great Serbia” said 18 notebooks with Mladic's writings had been found during a search of …

Will China Help Modernize Russia?

15:00 16.09.2010 Alexander Salitsky

Will China Help Modernize Russia?

Russian President D. Medvedev's visit to China will certainly help clarify in what international settings Russia is going to put into practice its declared modernization course.China's economic and political rise to which the economic downturn in industrialized countries added visibility is largely owed to Beijing's commitment to the strategy of …

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