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Памятный Октябрь или Авророво Воскресение
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Российская Федерация на сегодняшний день имеет один из самых высоких индексов Джини по классификации ООН (индекс джини - отражает разрыв в уровне и качестве ...
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Кубанский чиновник Мышак и Илья Яшин. Заминировано.
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Москвичи об обмене Шалита на палестинских осужденных
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Сержант армии Израиля Гилад Шалит, захваченный боевиками ХАМАС свыше пяти лет назад, передан израильским властям. В обмен Израиль отпустил 1027 палестинцев и...
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anticompromat: полный текст интервью Путина телеканалам. из новых поступлений в Библиотеку "Антикомп
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Сегодня, October 18, 2011, 2 мин. назад | Russia and The West
From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world
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(Reuters) - It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
Сегодня, October 18, 2011, 2 мин. назад | Russia and The West
Israeli soldier traded for 1,000 Palestinians
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CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips reports on the swap of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for one Israeli soldier - Sgt. Gilad Schalit.
Сегодня, October 18, 2011, 3 мин. назад | Russia and The West
International media reaction to prisoner Gilad Shalit exchange
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FRANCE 24's Elena Casas wraps up the international media reaction to the Israeli-Palestinian prisoner exchange. IN THE PAPERS Live from the newsroom, Elena C...
Сегодня, October 18, 2011, 3 мин. назад | Russia and The West
Pressure mounts on Yanukovych over Tymoshenko
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http://www.euronews.net/ The European Union has indefinitely postponed an invitation to Ukraine's president over the jailing last week of the country's forme...
Сегодня, October 18, 2011, 3 мин. назад | Russia and The West
TNK-BP board to consider joining lawsuit
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Oct. 18 - BP's Russian affiliate TNK-BP is to consider joining its minority shareholders in suing BP over failed deal. Kirsty Basset reports.
Сегодня, October 18, 2011, 5 мин. назад | Russia and The West
Analysis: Putin remark fuels questions about Medvedev role
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dmitry Medvedev's future role as Russia's prime minister is looking less secure after his long-time ally, Vladimir Putin, hinted that his appointment may not be a done deal.The two
Сегодня, October 18, 2011, 14 мин. назад | Russia and The West
Russia's Eastern Anxieties
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Putin's call for a new Eurasian Union has more to do with fears of China than with Europe.
Вчера, October 17, 2011, 10:14:53 PM | Russia and The West
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Вчера премьер-министр Владимир Путин дал интервью руководителям трех федеральных каналов, посвященное случившемуся недавно решению вопроса о власти. Как и Дмитрий Медведев, который уже несколько раз выступил по этому вопросу, господин Путин считает, что власть отдавать нельзя, пока страна для этого ...
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Президенту напомнят о его поручениях
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Совет по развитию гражданского общества и правам человека при президенте РФ обнаружил вчера, что следственный комитет России, органы прокуратуры и МВД фактически саботируют расследование дела Сергея Магнитского. Вопрос о невыполнении поручений президента на примере дела Магнитского должен стать ключ...
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Russia's Eastern Anxieties
By RAFFAELLO PANTUCCI AND ALEXANDROS PETERSEN
Published: October 17, 2011
BEIJING — Traffic around Tiananmen Square was even worse than usual last week as President Vladimir Putin rolled through town to cement the supposedly flowering Chinese-Russian relationship. A series of high-level deals were signed between Chinese and Russian state-owned enterprises and China announced a substantial infusion into the new Russian Direct Investment Fund.
While cordial, an unspoken undertone to the meetings was Russian concern about growing Chinese influence in the former Soviet Union and particularly Central Asia.
Just before his visit to Beijing, Putin had announced a desire to form a new Eurasian Union that would tie a number of former Soviet states back into the Russian orbit. Hands immediately starting wringing in Brussels. At this time of E.U. weakness, the Eurasian Union was seen to be aimed at counterbalancing Western institutions.
These concerns are largely ill-founded. While the new organization is clearly an effort by Russia to reassert authority over its old dominions, it is in fact aimed East rather than West. Russia is far more concerned by growing Chinese influence in its backyard than anything the West is throwing its way.
The core of Russia’s concerns is the slow but steady progress of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, originally set up in the post-Cold War period to define borders between its five members — China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan ( later joined by Uzbekistan).
But in the last 10 years the S.C.O. has evolved into the most interesting, and perhaps consequential, example of Chinese diplomacy. As a Chinese scholar put it to us the other day in Beijing, the organization went from being focused on regional security to honing in on regional development — a trajectory that accords tidily both with China’s and the Central Asians’ interests.
While nominally an equal partner to all members, Russia has felt like a junior partner in the S.C.O. Once one of the two poles in the world, Russia is now considered among the ranks of new rising powers — not a bad group to be in, but clearly a step down from its previous position in global affairs.
Moscow has sought to counter this by retaining links and authority among former Soviet republics. Those in Europe have now been absorbed into the European Union, but the Eurasian states have remained within the Kremlin’s sphere of influence, bound by a latticework of organizations like the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Eurasian Economic Community.
The S.C.O. was initially ignored by Russia when it was set up a decade ago, but it has steadily developed into an increasingly important actor that has become a vehicle for China’s push to develop Central Asia.
China has focused on trying to turn the S.C.O. from a security-focused organization into an economic bloc, a policy predicated on the knock-on effect that a stable and prosperous Central Asia would have on China’s underdeveloped Xinjiang Province.
Using its deep pockets to pour money into the poor and isolated Central Asian states, China has secured energy contracts, worked on hydroelectric plants and helped develop infrastructure from roads to telephone systems.
But China has gone beyond hard-nosed economics, developing a holistic strategy that attempts to bring Chinese soft power to bear on the region. China has established Confucius Institutes to teach Chinese in all the Central Asian states but Turkmenistan, and has also helped develop an S.C.O. University that brings together some 50-plus universities across China and Eurasia.
As part of a push to develop the S.C.O. as a cultural entity, as well as one focused on security and economics, these are admittedly baby steps, but there is some evidence of success. Growing numbers of Central Asian students can be found at Chinese Universities and reports from Confucius Institutes in the region point to the children of affluent families trying to learn Mandarin.
This is perhaps the greatest threat to Russia’s powerful legacy in the region. Moscow has no money to spend, so it has been happy to allow China’s investment in Central Asia, as long as Russia retains cultural predominance. That is starting to slip. Putin’s efforts at a Eurasian Union thus appear to be a rearguard action to stem the tide of increasing Chinese omnipotence in Russia’s backyard.
Raffaello Pantucciis a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Alexandros Petersen is an adviser at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.
A version of this op-ed appeared in print on October 18, 2011, in The International Herald Tribune with the headline: Russia's Eastern Anxieties.
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Does a Company Have a Soul?
Does a Company Have a Soul?
In an interview with WSJ's Dennis Berman, GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Witty discusses why the drug maker is forgoing profits from the malaria vaccine it's developing for children in Africa-and why he believes his company has a soul.
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Koester Sees Euro Exposure Hurting US Earnings
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Koester Sees Euro Exposure Hurting US Earnings Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Wolfgang Koester, chief executive officer at Fireapps Inc., talks about the impact of the euro on US corporate earnings and the need for companies to hedge against currency fluctuations. He speaks with Lisa Murphy on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg) From: Bloomberg Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 05:40 More in Entertainment...
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Gomez death threat, Sarandon slammed The day's top showbiz news and headlines including Selena Gomez has a death threat, Susan Sarandon slammed for Pope comments, and Viola Davis adopts a child. From: ReutersVideo Views: 11 1 ratings Time: 01:10 More in News & Politics...
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Raiders Get Carson Palmer From Bengals The Oakland Raiders replaced injured quarterback Jason Campbell on Tuesday, trading two high draft picks to the Cincinnati Bengals for Carson Palmer. (Oct. 18) From: AssociatedPress Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 01:05 More in Sports...
Superman fan gets Clark Kent look
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Superman fan gets Clark Kent look
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Superman fan gets Clark Kent look Oct. 18 - A Filipino Superman fan undergoes cosmetic surgery to look like his idol, Clark Kent. Tara Cleary reports. From: ReutersVideo Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 01:43 More in News & Politics...
Clinton hails "Libya's victory" on Tripoli visit
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Clinton hails "Libya's victory" on Tripoli visit
Clinton hails "Libya's victory" on Tripoli visit
TRIPOLI/SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hailed "Libya's victory" during a visit to Tripoli but fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi were still holding out in his home town, underscoring the challenges facing the country's new leaders.
U.S. invites Russia to measure missile-defense test (Reuters)
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U.S. invites Russia to measure missile-defense test
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U.S. invites Russia to measure missile-defense test
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Reuters - The United States has invited Russia to use its own radars and other sensors to size up one or more U.S. missile-defense flight tests as part of a new push to persuade Moscow that the system poses it no threat, a Pentagon official said on Tuesday.
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US invites Russia to measure missile-defense test - Reuters
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The Voice of RussiaUS invites Russia to measure missile-defense testReutersWASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - The United States has invited Russia to use its own radars and other sensors to size up one or more US missile-defense flight tests as part of a new push to persuade Moscow that the system ...Russia to Propose New Star Wars ProgramThe Moscow TimesRussia interested in space missile defense system – Kremlin sourceRIA Novosti'Star Wars' as...
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