1. east 26 - Minority effect
(Category - English (United Kingdom))

Russian has 120 officially recognized ethnic minorities,China another 50. Most are in Asia, on the border between the former Soviet Union and newly capitalist China. The demands of these minorities, violent ...

2. east 21 - Women in Poland
(Category - English (United Kingdom))

Georgia’s military blitz in Ossetia and Russia’s heavy-duty armed response could have set the hands of history’s clock back by several years. Has the crisis been solved? Not yet and not definitively, at ...

3. east 19 - New Russia?
(Category - English (United Kingdom))

After the victory of Dimitri Medvedev in the presidential elections, Russia fixes its attention on the “four i’s”. As spelled out in Piero Sinatti’s article, the first “i” stands for the administrative ...

4. east 16 - Love is over
(Category - English (United Kingdom))

... for example, they lack a way to measure how people's “happiness” levels vary. The cover is devoted to a very topical political and strategic issue: the state of U.S.-Russia relations.   download ...

5. east 4 - Where is Putin heading
(Category - English (United Kingdom))

“German Groups Shun Russia,” was the headline in the “Financial Times” on 8 April. The article explained that doubts about Vladimir Putin’s real intentions for reform are causing stagnation in direct investments, ...

6. east 27 - Finding Happiness Outside GDP
(Category - English (United Kingdom))

... Russia of President Dimitri Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, which has returned to play a major role in global affairs. Download summary The articles included in the last issue ...

7. RECOMMENDED READING
(2010/east 31 - Special report - The other Kabul - English (United Kingdom))

... of the Russian Empire, and from the Baltic to the Adriatic. Friedrich Naumann’s book “Mitteleuropa,” published in 1915, helped coin the term with the aim of circumscribing a post World War I German cultural ...

8. Simferopol: City of Transitions
(2010/east 31 - Special report - The other Kabul - English (United Kingdom))

... dull from the long night spent in the railroad car. Suddenly, laughter and shouting jars me to life. It’s a group of cab drivers. In Russian and broken English they’re announcing the places they’re prepared ...

9. To the East, Schengen Has Mixed Results
(2010/east 31 - Special report - The other Kabul - English (United Kingdom))

... seen as potential revanchists, and the Russians, perceived as looters of the lands of others. The resentment is reciprocated on the German side. German exiles and their descendants see the Poles as hostile ...

10. THAT’S INCREDIBLE
(2010/east 31 - Special report - The other Kabul - English (United Kingdom))

MOSCOW PROTESTS Russia has a new symbol of “me-first” power that’s beginning to produce widespread protest. They’re called “migalki,” flashing blue and red lights with a siren added for effect. Increasingly, ...

11. Why Dubai’s Islamic Austerity is a Sham
(2010/east 31 - Special report - The other Kabul - English (United Kingdom))

... has a bar where “working girls” are tolerated, even encouraged, to help pull in the punters with cash to blow. But it goes downhill from there. At sports and music bars, Fillipinas vie with the Russians ...

12. Jerusalem, Open City Woes
(2010/east 31 - Special report - The other Kabul - English (United Kingdom))

... UN, the European Union, Russia and United States, The complexity of these problems is increasingly an obstacle both in generating momentum for the peace process and in the managing of Jerusalem itself. ...

13. The Other Afghanistan
(2010/east 31 - Special report - The other Kabul - English (United Kingdom))

... of the mullah’s home in the Khost Wa Firing valley, near Baghlan. Neither the Russians in their time, nor the Taliban now, dare to enter the area.     Balkh: the malang is the saint ...

14. Lev Gudkov
(Curriculum vitae/Curriculum vitae - English (United Kingdom))

Lev Gudkov Head of  Levada Center in Moscow, a centre which conducts public opinion polls and sociological studies. He is one of the most eminent socialist scientists  in Russia  and  ...

15. Sergio Romano
(Curriculum vitae/Curriculum vitae - English (United Kingdom))

Sergio Romano Historian,  former Italian Ambassador in Russia ...

16. Democracy and Competitiveness in Global Markets
(2010/east 30 - euroshock - English (United Kingdom))

... its large domestic market. Brazil and Russia, after a difficult 2009, are beginning to show signs of recovery (both are expected to see gr o wth rates of about five percent). Thanks above all to the clout ...

17. RECOMMENDED READING
(2010/east 30 - euroshock - English (United Kingdom))

... first half of the 20th century? After two decades of sometimes sterile historical debate focused on attempting to compare Stalinism with Nazism, scholars Sheila Fitzpatrick, an expert on Russia, and Michael ...

18. Manas: Shoes for the World
(2010/east 30 - euroshock - English (United Kingdom))

Family-owned shoemaker Manas Spa got its small-town roots in 1950s. Since then, it has expanded both nationally and internationally. It now exports to 88 countries, including Russia, China and ...

19. Mikhalkov is Reheated by the Sun
(2010/east 30 - euroshock - English (United Kingdom))

Sixteen years after his epic “Burned by the Sun” broke all Russian box officer records and earned an Oscar, renowned director Nikita Mikhalkov is back with a sequel.  Once again, his narrative ...

20. THAT’S INCREDIBLE
(2010/east 30 - euroshock - English (United Kingdom))

... the United States, China, Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Russia and Taiwan. TOChina is part of a larger organization called TOAsia, also based in Turin, which sees its mission as to ...