Regional governors enjoy more freedom with Medvedev
Russia's Kremlin-appointed regional governors have enjoyed more freedom since President Dmitry Medvedev took office in 2008
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Island Tango
With their afternoon tea, brogue accents, and fields of diddle-dee, just who do the Falklands Islanders think they are?
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Israel With a Russian Accent (and Pork)
All around me in the Israeli city of Ashdod, people were chatting in Russian, darting in and out of stores with signs in Cyrillic, living the lives that they had once lived, as if they were in a mythical, far-flung former Soviet republic.
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Russia on the rebound
After sharply negative growth last year, Russia’s growth is predicted to exceed 6% this year.
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How Ireland Lost Its Faith
The recent child abuse scandals are just the latest development in the Catholic Church's long retreat from its one-time stronghold.
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America, the fragile empire
If empires are complex systems that sooner or later succumb to sudden and catastrophic malfunctions, what are the implications for the United States today?
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