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Russian bullying and Georgian insensitivity combine to heat the frozen conflict over Abkhazia
The story of an Iraqi city and an Afghan prince should be a lesson to western states and media
Hillary Clinton's campaign has cast a political shadow over the US presidential contest
A China in social and intellectual ferment is finding new ways to slice the national past
Egypt is a divided and angry society that is failing its young. How did it get here, and what next?
Russia's rising global profile offers its new president both test and opportunity
Why do some countries achieve independence and not others? Blame "post-colonial sequestration syndrome"
Russia is tightening its pressure on its small Caucasus neighbour. This time it's serious
Three years after the Uzbek massacre, Germany leads a shameful collusion with Islam Karimov's brutal regime
What connects elections, democracy, and poor people's
life-chances? India offers an answer, says this reflection published on 13 May 2001
Polit.ru and openDemocracy launch an ambitious collaboration on Russia and the world
Russia both fears and seeks to emulate Europe. Today they are apart. But not forever...
Hu Jintao's "warm spring" visit highlights the lesser-known bonds that link China and Japan
The outcome of Serbia's fourth election in two years passes the advantage to the political power-brokers
Israel has reached a landmark anniversary. But the ideological project underpinning its existence has brought it to a strategic impasse
Washington's problems in Iraq and Afghanistan are leading it to refocus its military attentions on Tehran
The Chinese netizens mobilising against western media distortions should also look in the mirror
Judith Herrin unearths the roots of the "cosmopolitan" and finds a vital source for understanding the globalised present
What does the new Russian president want, and can he make the job his own?
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