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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHorse trading in the UNThe leading candidate to succeed Mr. Ban Ki-Moon as new Secretary General of the UN is former Portuguese PM Antonio...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWorld poverty: the misconceptions of the winner of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsPoverty is not an individual problem of lack of resources that can be solved through education. The problem is the...
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Published in: HomeErdoğan and Putin: unalike likenessThe leaders of Turkey and Russia are often compared. But their differences are more instructive than their...
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Published in: openSecurityEastern Ukraine: the humanity behind the headlines
The government in Kyiv, aid organisations and the international community must work together to address the...
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Published in: openSecurityNew security laws could make Turkey into a police stateThe latest crackdown on journalists in Turkey is another twist in the spiral into authoritarianism of a state bereft...
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Published in: openSecurityThe new cold war Russia (again) won't winThe last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, burst the 25th-anniversary balloon of the symbolic end of the cold war by...
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Published in: HomeA new, Eurasian, world order
China and Russia are at the heart of the world's shifting power-balance. But current cooperation between them is...
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Published in: oDRThe ultimate conspiracy theoryThe National Liberation Movement, led by Yevgeny Fyorodov, a Duma Deputy, believes that Russia has been occupied by...
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Published in: openSecurityAzerbaijan challenges Europe's human-rights mettleAs Azerbaijan takes up the six-month chair of the Council of Europe, the deteriorating human-rights situation in the...
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Published in: HomeEurope freezes, Eurasia pivots
Behind the crisis in Ukraine lie deeper changes that are transforming the global economic and and political order,...
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Published in: openSecurityThe new Russian power blocA quarter century after Mikhail Gorbachev supervised the collapse of Europe’s cold-war division, a world of new...
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Published in: HomeCrimea's referendum: four dangers
The planned vote to transfer Crimea from Ukraine to Russia will plant the seeds of greater conflict in the peninsula.
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Published in: HomeUkraine's crisis, the west's trap
The dangerous stand-off with Russia over Ukraine is also a display of the west's skewed perceptions and moral vanities.
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Published in: HomeKleptocracy: final stage of Soviet-style socialism
The tumult in Ukraine marks a wider crisis of the corrupt post-Soviet model. The impact will be felt most acutely in...
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Published in: HomeAn Armenian perspective on Khojali
Many civilians were killed in the war between the newly independent states of Armenia and Azerbaijan in the early...
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Published in: HomeWhy does Putin fear Maidan?
The popular upheaval in Ukraine reveals how the Kremlin thinks, says Carmen Claudín.
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Published in: HomeSochi = Syria: boycott the Olympics
The crimes of Bashar al-Assad's regime and its support by Vladimir Putin demand an answer, says Martin Shaw.
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Published in: HomeA tipping point for Mongolia's democracy?
Sandwiched between the giants of Russia and China, Mongolia is looking to develop its vast mineral wealth. How will...
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Published in: oDRSergey Dvortsevoy, Talented Ripple MasterSergei Dvortsevoy’s films may have won plaudits internationally, but his uncompromising observational style and...
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Published in: oDRGoodbye Lenin: Tajikistan's new historical narrativeTHE CEELBAS DEBATE // Since the collapse of the USSR the Tajik government has striven to establish a new historical...
