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Development Assistance As Leverage for Russia’s Footprint in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

... supported by assistance in fighting drug trafficking, softening the terms and conditions for labor migrants’ entry to Russia, and subsidized supplies of Russian fuel, gas and lubricants. Could all these facts point to the conclusion that International Development Assistance (IDA) in a region that is highly important to Russia has moved up a level on the priority scale? This article will first analyze the efficiency of Russian IDA in Central Asia as a means of ensuring the promotion of its national ...

11.01.2013

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International Development Assistance in the New Economic Environment

The falling funding levels for international development in 2011 as a result of the global economic crisis is both a challenge to international aims of reducing poverty and a stimulus for the debate on the future of the international architecture for development assistance. Lower Development Assistance Budgets: Necessity or Strategic Blunder? In October 1970, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution number 2626, International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development ...

08.11.2012

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Poll conducted

In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?

U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
U.S. wants to dissolve Russia	24 (22%)
U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)