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Government is Incomplete Conquest

Political parties are alleged to provide their electorates with choice. Cynics might object that, while elections give an electorate the feeling that they have choice, this is only an illusion. Soviet propagandists used to like to point out that the choice is only between Rockefeller millionaires and Kennedy millionaires, that is, among factions of the ...

22.10.2015

Hillary Clinton’s Eleven Rivals

... second debate, he criticized Carly Fiorina, who spoke out against talks with Putin. He argued that, if Ronald Reagan had occupied a similar position during the Cold War, the outcome could have been quite different. * * * The United States Presidential Elections of 2016. The International Dimension. Experts Forecasts All the Republican contenders hold more or less “hawkish” views and compete with each other to seem tougher. Meanwhile, some experts believe that the overly aggressive nature ...

19.10.2015

Post-election Period in Belarus: Economy Determines Politics

....” The recipes concocted by Belarusian liberals will have the same economic results, if the state follows their advice. REUTERS/Host Photo Agency/RIA Novosti Anton Boltochko: A Half-Step from the Abyss: Belarus’s Economy Ahead of Presidential Elections For instance, Yaroslav Romanchuk, a Belarusian economist and head of Mises Research Center argues that the current employment structure cannot be preserved if the state aims to address productivity and efficiency challenges. In 2013, organizations ...

14.10.2015

A Half-Step from the Abyss: Belarus’s Economy Ahead of Presidential Elections

... make them fulfill President's instructions on burning issues ." External Matters belstat.gov.by Commodity Structure of Exports and Imports, Belarus, 2014 (In Russian) The third quarter of 2015 will be a major test for Belarus. With presidential elections looming, economic logic often tends to be replaced by political populism, which hampers responses to emerging challenges. The external challenges, which are hardly manageable by Minsk and may affect developments in Belarus in the second half ...

01.10.2015

Parliamentary Elections in Catalonia: The Defeat and Victory of Separatism

The Problem of Catalonia is the Problem of Spain The parliamentary elections held on September 27 were arguably the most important in Catalonia’s history. The separatists managed to make the elections feel like a referendum – even though under the Spanish constitution, autonomous regions cannot hold a referendum ...

30.09.2015

NASA and RUSSIA

The US space agency has forked out $490m for six seats for its astronauts to get to the ISS on board one of the Russian Federal Space Agency's (Roscosmos) Soyuz spacecraft. Nasa's space shuttles were stopped in 2011 as the organisation set about sending its astronauts to the ISS on board privately developed spacecrafts like SpaceX. However, a shortfall in funding from the US Congress has meant the space agency is down about a billion dollars on what it requested since 2011. As a result, the first...

08.08.2015

Moldova Local Elections Reveal Opportunities for Russia’s Engagement

On 14th June 2015, Moldovans casted their vote in local elections that saw pro-European parties arrive ahead of those advocating rapprochement with Russia. Political forces favouring European integration successfully mobilised the support of 51 percent of the country’s population. They now control 25 ...

24.06.2015

Turkish Parliamentary Elections: The Fall of the “Electoral Caliphate”

The Party after Justice and Development The June 7 parliamentary elections in Turkey were a truly historic occasion, putting an end to speculation about whether President Recep Erdoğan would be able to gain absolute leadership over the country by amending the constitution. Alas, he could not and Turkey will remain ...

11.06.2015

Spain: Radical Changes in the Political Landscape

The regional and municipal elections held in Spain on May 24, 2015, confirmed the trend from recent years, namely the decline in the popularity of the two leading parties: the People's Party (PP) and the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE). The results from public opinion ...

01.06.2015
 

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