Friday, 31 July 2009

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/china-turkey-and-xinjiang-a-frayed-relationship

China vs Turkey over Xinjiang, Igor Torbakov Matti Nojonen

The violent ethnic clashes in China's northwestern province of Xinjiang on 5-6 July 2009 have had effects far beyond the region. The pressure from the Chinese government to halt the showing at the Melbourne film festival of a documentary film...

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The WANA vision: regional model, global survival , Prince Hassan of Jordan

Many world leaders have emphasised the crucial importance of the global community acting to address climate change, by agreeing a comprehensive successor-pact to the Kyoto protocol. The United States president and United Nations secretary-general...

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The Microeconomics of the Dacha, Alexander Polivanov

 

Almost every week since the beginning of spring I have been going to our dacha.

I take the metro, the suburban train, the bus and then walk for 10 minutes. It takes me just as long to get back.

In the spring Dmitri Gaev, the head of the...

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