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On Sept. 26, the European Commission announced that Bulgaria and Romania would join the European Union even earlier than previously planned. The…
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The recent ethnic violence in the Karelian town of Kondopoga started with an everyday fight and clashes between criminal gangs, but has…
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Russian political authorities, as we are told, are heartily devoted to ideals of pluralism. Any official in the Kremlin will in all…
We travelled to the counter-summit. The first stage was a conference on the results of fifteen years of neoliberal reforms. After this…
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