With the Brisbane G20 Summit approaching, some voices in Australia are pushing PM Tony Abbott to ban Vladimir Putin from attending the meeting. Can this move bear fruit?
 
Anticipation of the November G20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia has been emotionally charged. Feelings run high as pressure groups, including those representing Australian…

Protesters are unarmed. They have no self-defense force. What they have is an umbrella – for the sun, for the rain, and perhaps for the tear gas.
 
Protesters demand universal suffrage, a genuine one, which is promised by Hong Kong Basic Law Article 45. They are neither overthrowing the current system nor the government; they ask for a…

Nikolay Mezhevich, Ph.D. (Economics). Professor, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University.   Amidst a severe lack of Russian-language media coverage of the elections in Latvia, the web portal Delfi published an article with the headline: “Scandal? Putin’s Fan Wins Latvian Elections.” The Ukrainian…

 
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Astrobiological Foundations of Humanity: The Origin of the Cosmodern Consciousness
Los Fundamentos Astrobiológicos de la Humanidad: el Origen de la Consciencia Cosmoderna
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Modern economic world is buoyed by new transnational growth. We might witness world economic growth of 1-2%, with IMF and World Bank being preoccupied less with the economy, and more with the political processes (political instability, emerging markets’ growth less than expected, unstable world oil pricing). But the worldwide recession seems to…

Comment on Interview with Alena Ledeneva http://www.rferl.org/content/interview-russia-alena-ledeneva-sistema/24944910.html
 
Ledeneva is one of the few to have confronted the reality that in order to reform Russia and the other post-Soviet republics, one has to understand the mechanisms underlying the system. 
 
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On the eve of prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington, the Obama administration and friendly media have positioned the new Indian leader as a leader who is open to reforming big government and implementing free market policies.   But critics of Modi say that the much heralded economic performance of his Gurajat state, based on…

 
                                 By Jiri and Leni Valenta
America is slowly waking up, but it had better do so much, much faster!  We are currently facing multiple and immediate…

Winter is approaching and the European Union, following the lead of the U.S.A., is firmly persisting in its policy of sanctions against the Russian Federation. Yet the prospect of closing down of Gazprom's pipelines, which cover about 30% of the gas requirements of the European area, seems now to be worrying the political establishment of Brussels…

The Ukraine crisis remains one of the most vexed issues on the international agenda. The interested parties are making efforts to resolve it, and important steps towards peace have already been taken. So far, however, this is not enough to halt the bloodshed. The OSCE is actively involved in monitoring events in Ukraine, but many people believe the…

Russia's leaders have long recognized a need for competitive politics.  They tried twice, in 1995 and in 2006, to create a two-party system from above. Most observers among those who even took note of these attempts ridiculed them. Both times, they stressed that the parties created from above were "pro-Kremlin," so the attempt to…