A few weeks ago President Putin announced the first shipment of Arctic oil extracted from the Prirazlomnaya platform. What are the potential benefits and risks of the much debated Arctic oil? Are we ready to handle the impacts of Arctic energy?
 
 
 
Enthusiasm and scepticism
 
 
Some weeks ago, President Putin…

What is Pedagogy? It is the science and art of education. Its aims range from the full development of the human being to skills acquisition. How can Business promote holistic Pedagogy which in the long-term helps Economic Development? I feel that experiential learning or empirical learning is a crucial aspect of learning and being educated. In my…

Yesterday, the people of Ukraine have elected a new president. A billionaire, Petro Poroshenko, has a host of daunting tasks at hand. Amid the Kremlin's belligerent policy towards Kiev, Poroshenko has to modernize the economy, diversify Ukraine's gas supplies, quell the separatist rebellions, and integrate the country into the European Union…

Amid yet more reports of grave human rights violations against Bahrain Shia community, a rather worrying development has come to light in the kingdom island as King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa is attempting to sow discord amid the Christian and Shia Muslim community, intent on pitting two friendly and traditionally peaceful communities against each…

Like it was mentioned previously, now we the participants of the Malaysian International Youth Exchange are taking part in the Belia Festival, the massive celebration of the youth that is located in Putrajaya, a new administrative capitol of Malaysia. So today all the countries participating in the MIYE 2014 are performing on the stage; it should be…

Presently, many of the people in the Eastern half of the country readily accept the Russian line that the Western Ukraine is dominated by an illegal junta which took power through an illegal coup, and that the interim government in Kiev is inhabited by Nazi fascists.  The truth is that the people, not a junta,  rose…

As we mentioned before Petrojaya is a new administrative capitol of Malaysia; its about 20 km away from Kuala Lumpur. The executive branch of power has been relocated here, so Prime-minister and the Government now operate in Putrajaya. It is all new city, very beautiful, modern architecture but you can say its really has some traditional characters…

Waking up at 7 am isn' hard: it's already sunny and so hot you're walking from a cold conditioned room not that quickly. The Royal Museum is a formal Royal residence; its basically a very beautiful palace. Inside we take off our shoes and walk on a nice carpet watching incredible interiors and pictures of the Royal family. After that we…

Malaysian International Youth Exchange 2014 (MIYE 2014) is an event that takes place during the
46th Malaysian Youth Day celebrations – International Youth Day starting
on the 21st to 26th of May 2014. This is a huge celebration holding in Putrajaya (a new administrative capital of Malaysia). Last year more then 1 million people attended to…

This paper analyzes the origins and causes of the radical reforms undertaken in Russia’s academic sciences sector, which resulted in the fusion of three state academies in 2013.  Numerous claims made by the Russian government and experts against the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have created tension between RAS leadership and the Russian…

The European Elections are approaching and the Commision President candidates closed their general campaign with two final debates at the State of the Union Conference in Florence and at the Eurovision Debate in Brussels, during which the challengers unveiled their different policies over a number of issues. European foreign policy and the…

First day is a bit confusing as there is so much going on and everything is so new that your brain is just doesn't operate the right way. In the evening the first meeting with all the participants of the event and a shirt briefing took part. And now, when already here, we have realized that this program we are about to participate in is truly…