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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 20, 2011

  Russia's gays under attack as MPs back fines for 'gay promotion'

  By RIA Novosti correspondent Alexei Korolyov:     Russia’s gay rights activists have come under intense fire after the city legislature in St. Petersburg approved a bill to impose fines for the "promotion" of homosexuality....... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 8, 2011

  Venezuela's Chavez: Voices in the night

By Rebecca Theodore The soft chimes of sorrow and delight haunt the chambers of the Venezuelan night. Straggling garments swish through her marble halls as Chavez lay fringed with fright from the celestial walls. The serene, majestic presence of the night hooves a mighty spell...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 6, 2011

  Uncertain World: Russia’s WTO entry as the end of the post-Soviet era

By Fyodor Lukyanov:   Russia may join the World Trade Organization this year, bringing to a close an 18 year accession process. With each new year, the claim that “we will join the WTO by year-end” came to sound more and more like that famous Jewish...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 25, 2011

  Gaddafi: Life after death

By Yelena Suponina for RIA Novosti:   Following the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi , all major world news media carried photos and video of his bloodied corpse. There was no doubt in my mind about the authenticity of those images - I saw the man up close...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 23, 2011

  The end of ideologies

By Jean H Charles:   President Ronald Reagan, with the support and the connivance of Michael Gorbachev, destroyed the communist ideology. President George W. Bush, with the demise of Wall Street and some of the big commercial banks, has shaken to its core the capitalist...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 24, 2011

  Due West: Good-bye to a colonel and his Socialist People’s Republic

By Konstantin von Eggert:   Libya’s official name is the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. There is no such word as "jamahiriya" in Arabic. It is a corruption of the word “jumhuriya” meaning “republic” and can be...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 26, 2011

  Venezuela and Colombia - The winds of war?

By Rebecca Theodore:   Behold! The tyrant of the Andes -- Hugo Chavez. Staring into the mirror of mirrors, he laments on his misery because the natural order within him is disturbed. A soul dominated by mad lust and egoism. Oppressed by his own fanatic and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 18, 2010

  A late lesson for an old revolutionary

BY KEEBLE McFARLANE In the bad old days of the now defunct Soviet Union, exasperated citizens described their dilemma with a hoary old phrase: "We pretend to work and the state pretends to pay us". Well, the grand communist experiment imploded and collapsed just over two decades ago, and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 17, 2010

  Cuba’s mass layoffs: The dead-end of Castroism

This week’s announcement that over half a million Cuban workers are to be thrown out of their jobs in the next six months has laid bare the class character of the Castro regime. The brutal measure was made public by the Central de Trabajadores Cuba (CTC), the government-controlled trade...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 4, 2009

  Cuba: honey of power and flowers of pragmatism

MOSCOW. (Oleg Vyazmitinov, RIA Novosti correspondent in Cuba) - Last Monday brought crucial news to Cuba: a number of key ministers were sacked, and a merger of four ministries announced. News reports and analyses published in leading Western newspapers claim the turnaround in Cuba's home...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 26, 2009

  House votes to ease limits on Cuba trade, travel

By Susan Cornwell: WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): US restrictions on trade with Cuba and family travel to the island would be eased under legislation passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday but the changes could encounter trouble in the Senate. Supporters hope congressional...... [view]

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  Youth Voices Russia

Starter:   laurakenyon
Date Created:  Nov 16, 2007
Country:  Russia
City:  Moscow
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Description:   The workshops were organized with the help of International College of Economics and Finance (hosting organization) and its deputy director Jeffery Lockshin, Andreev Evgeny (was helping in...
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