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Give Transition A Chance

Sunday 23rd February marked the 33rd anniversary of what Spanish people call ’23-F’. Just five years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco, the country was slowly transitioning towards democracy. But on the 2...

by Daniel Cavanillas

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The New Sudetenland And The Return Of The Truman Doctrine

There is something remarkably old-fashioned about the crisis that has broken out in the Crimea and the Eastern Ukraine. For once, there seems to be no pretence of following international law, not even a cursory attempt to justi...

by Matthew Valla

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WATCH: The race to save the Arctic

Our poles remain the only two parts of our planet unexploited by man, but the growing interest in oil and rich fishing grounds in the Arctic is leading to a free for all as nearby powerful nations scramble to declare the territ...

by Nicky Armstrong

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Dissecting The Dead In Odessa

Several dozen people burned to death late last week in Odessa, when violence between different political factions led to a fire in a heavily occupied building. Afterwards, witnesses uploaded to the Internet hundreds of differ...

by Kevin Rothrock

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Putin: Moral Crusader

by Sam Kirk

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Neutral Choice: Abkhazia and South Ossetia

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”@intlpolitical” float=”left”][fbshare type=”button”]Neutral documents planned for the citizens of de-facto republics of Abkhazia and South Osse...

by Elene Melikishvili

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The CUTting-edge of Russian Universities

The Ministry of Education has come up with fifty criteria evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of Russian universities in order to unite the more successful universities with the “weak” ones, cutting the number of the ...

by Ekaterina Mordvinova

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“Why Edward Snowden Wishes He’d Sought Asylum In Poland”

The Polish vodka Sobieski states on its website that vodka’s “birthplace was in Poland” and not in Russia, as many believe. However what draws attention to the product is the use of whistleblower Edward Snowden in...

by Robert Valencia

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Central Asia’s Rulers View Turkish “Soap Power” With Suspicion

Back when the post-Soviet states of Central Asia gained independence, there was much talk of Pan-Turkism, a word that had been largely forgotten during seven decades of communism and Russian linguistic influence. The idea th...

by Kanykei Tursunbaeva

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Give Transition A Chance

The New Sudetenland And The Return Of The Truman Doctrine

WATCH: The race to save the Arctic

Dissecting The Dead In Odessa

Putin: Moral Crusader

Neutral Choice: Abkhazia and South Ossetia

The CUTting-edge of Russian Universities

“Why Edward Snowden Wishes He’d Sought Asylum In Poland”

Central Asia’s Rulers View Turkish “Soap Power” With Suspicion

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