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Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
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Growth Of A Natural History Museum On The Prairie: The University Of Nebraska State Museum, 1871-1996, Thomas P. Myers Oct 1997
Growth Of A Natural History Museum On The Prairie: The University Of Nebraska State Museum, 1871-1996, Thomas P. Myers
Since its founding in 1871, the University of Nebraska State Museum has been a leader in the study of the natural history of the plains and prairies of the central United States. Its history can be divided into three eras: 1)founding and first steps in a struggling new university (1871-1891); 2) the Barbour-Schultz era (1891-1970) when research focused on vertebrate paleontology and exhibition became a major focus; and 3) recent history (1970-present) beginning with the consolidation of university collections in 1970, the professionalization of museum staff, and increased access through computerization. Research and public exhibits have been prominent components ...
Review Of The Carrion Beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) Of Nebraska By Brett C. Ratcliffe, Stephen Trumbo Oct 1997
Review Of The Carrion Beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) Of Nebraska By Brett C. Ratcliffe, Stephen Trumbo
Until the 1970s the carrion beetles were appreciated by only a handful of entomologists who knew where to locate the scattered pertinent information buried within the scientific literature. Summaries of the natural history of the only social genus (Nicrophorus) within the family Silphidae by E. O. Wilson (1971) and Milne and Milne (1976) seem to have attracted biologists of diverse interests to investigate these odoriferous beetles. At present, nearly a dozen papers are published yearly on the ecology, behavior, evolution, physiology, conservation, and molecular biology of the silphids. The Carrion Beetles of Nebraska, a handsome and well-written volume, provides the ...
A Great Plains Presidential Primary?, James L. Mcdowell Oct 1997
A Great Plains Presidential Primary?, James L. Mcdowell
This paper examines the feasibility of establishing a regional presidential primary for the Great Plains States. It reviews the introduction of primaries for selecting national convention delegates, and the slowness of these states to adopt this method. Further, it surveys the use of the primary in the region, noting the independence of Great Plains voters in both the prereform and post-reform periods. Finally, the paper recommends that Great Plains States adopt a regional primary; suggests they select the earliest possible date in order to enhance their influence on the selection of presidential nominees; and offers several alternative proposals, depending upon ...
Where One Size Does Not Fit All: Small Community Diversity, Kathleen Prochaska-Cue, Ann Ziebarth, Bonnie Shrewsbury Oct 1997
Where One Size Does Not Fit All: Small Community Diversity, Kathleen Prochaska-Cue, Ann Ziebarth, Bonnie Shrewsbury
Using a community classification based on key demographic and geographic factors and data from the U.S. Census, analyses from 212 small communities indicate significant inter- and intra-state differences. The communities studied were located in two states within the North Central Region. The sample was limited to incorporated places with populations between 1,000 and 2,500. Several commonly-held ideas about small communities are either challenged or confirmed by this research. Similarities and differences among the communities as well as between the states support the conclusion that small communities have diverse characteristics. Not all small communities ofthis size are geographically ...
Regional Socioeconomic And Sociocultural Differences Among U.S. Latinos: The Effects Of Historical And Contemporary Latino Immigration/Migration Streams, Ed A. Munoz, Suzanne T. Ortega Oct 1997
Regional Socioeconomic And Sociocultural Differences Among U.S. Latinos: The Effects Of Historical And Contemporary Latino Immigration/Migration Streams, Ed A. Munoz, Suzanne T. Ortega
In this paper we explore two potential sources of variation in the life experiences of Latinos in the United States: region of the country in which a group resides and national origin. Although scholars have recognized the theoretical importance of these two variables, few studies have empirically examined the relationship of region of the country and national origin to socioeconomic variables such as occupation, education, and income or to cultural variables such as bilingualism and English language proficiency. Data from the 1990 U.S. Census 5% Public Use Micro Sample show that both the social structural and cultural experiences of ...
Contents - Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 1997 Oct 1997
Contents - Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 1997
Annual Index Oct 1997
Review Of "Toil And Peaceful Life": Doukhobor Village Settlement In Saskatchewan, 1899-1918 By Carl J. Tracie, Hans B. Werner Oct 1997
Review Of "Toil And Peaceful Life": Doukhobor Village Settlement In Saskatchewan, 1899-1918 By Carl J. Tracie, Hans B. Werner
The Doukhobor story has had an abiding interest for students of group settlement on the Canadian Prairies. Doukhobors were pacifist Russian peasants and some of the more exotic of Clifford Sifton's sturdy immigrant farmers. The 7,400 Doukhobors who came to Canada established some fifty-seven villages on three reserved blocks of prairie and parkland in Saskatchewan. By 1918 the original villages were abandoned and the reserved lands were lost. Carl Tracie's study of Community Doukhobor settlement in Saskatchewan seeks to explain "past cultural landscapes-the distinctive marks on the land which people of differing cultures make in the process ...
Review Of Prairie Voices: Process Anthropology In Family Medicine By Howard F. Stein, Charles B. Hennon Oct 1997
Review Of Prairie Voices: Process Anthropology In Family Medicine By Howard F. Stein, Charles B. Hennon
Prairie Voices is a volume full of surprises. From the Foreword and Preface I was expecting a deep narrative on how the author lives in and experiences the prairie world and found instead a drawn-out discussion about how the author uses poetry in his medical school practice.
Each of eleven chapters gives some glimpse of the author's understanding of the prairie and its culture. Through his poetry and stories Stein attempts to provide the reader with an appreciation of the essence of the prairie, offering a more holistic understanding. We learn about day, night, weeds, drinking coffee, functioning, dependency ...
Review Of Beyond Subsistence: Plains Archaeology And The Postprocessual Critique Edited By Philip Duke And Michael C. Wilson, Alan J. Osborn Oct 1997
Review Of Beyond Subsistence: Plains Archaeology And The Postprocessual Critique Edited By Philip Duke And Michael C. Wilson, Alan J. Osborn
Philip Duke and Michael Wilson have compiled a well-written, well-organized book designed to "demonstrate the potential of postprocessualism to Plains archaeologists." It contains an editors' introduction, eleven scholarly contributions, as well as two commentaries. The editors suggest that the success of this "new paradigm or research strategy" will be assessed on the basis of its "second-generation scholars" and what they contribute to the "intellectual hybridization" of postprocessualism.
The reader must be aware that postprocessual archaeology does not consist of a coherent body of theory, models, concepts, or robust methods for data collection and analysis. Instead, it is a postmodern response ...
Review Of From Fort Laramie To Wounded Knee: In The West That Was By Charles W. Allen, John Husmann Oct 1997
Review Of From Fort Laramie To Wounded Knee: In The West That Was By Charles W. Allen, John Husmann
Charles Wesley Allen witnessed episodes of late nineteenth-century western American history through the eyes of a "soldier, freighter, rancher, clerk, blacksmith, contractor, editor, war correspondent, Pine Ridge postmaster, philosopher, and poet" (p. viii). Allen's good friend, Addison E. Sheldon, wrote this description of Allen's career in his foreword to the unpublished 1938 manuscript of Allen's reminiscences located at Nebraska State Historical Society. Richard E. Jensen, the Senior Research Anthropologist at the Society has produced an edited version of the manuscript, making it available to a wider audience for the first time. The book, as an edited volume ...
Review Of Nebraskaland Magazine: Wildlife Viewing Guide By Joseph Knue, Paul M. Mckenzie Oct 1997
Review Of Nebraskaland Magazine: Wildlife Viewing Guide By Joseph Knue, Paul M. Mckenzie
Joseph Knue's new Nebraska Wildlife Viewing Guide is a well organized and concise guide that many state residents and visitors will find useful as they travel throughout Nebraska. Its sharp photographs and maps greatly add to the overall aesthetically pleasing quality of the book, and the directions and icons used to depict the various available recreational facilities are clear and easy to follow. Given the modest price tag, the book should accompany anyone planning to view wildlife throughout the Nebraska countryside.
Review Of A Language Of Our Own: The Genesis Of Michif, The Mixed Cree-French Language Of The Canadian Metis By Peter Bakker, Paul Dube Oct 1997
Review Of A Language Of Our Own: The Genesis Of Michif, The Mixed Cree-French Language Of The Canadian Metis By Peter Bakker, Paul Dube
In the current context of reconciliation between the Native peoples and the government of Canada, there may be no stronger outside voice to help the Metis people in their struggle to right the past, be recognized for their contribution to the building of Canada, and to prepare for future than Peter Bakker's brilliant and pioneering book. This study combines a complete knowledge and mastery of all relevant literature and documents, the expert linguist's own research in the field, and an obvious caring, human touch. Its main focus is the language of the Metis people-Michif- but it achieves much ...
Review Of Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics In The Midwestern County Fair By Leslie Prosterman, Georgia L. Stevens Oct 1997
Review Of Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics In The Midwestern County Fair By Leslie Prosterman, Georgia L. Stevens
Prosterman graphically describes and idealizes traditional midwestern life as it focuses and culminates in the county fair by connecting food production to the harvest bounty. Her account of these American "festivals" began as a dissertation with data gathered in 1981-82. She visited twenty-four fairs, studied six in depth and conducted more than one hundred ethnographic interviews in two states. As a cultural anthropologist, Prosterman defines the county fair and its system of thought processes as folklore intimately connected to a small group people within a community. To the student of family and community sustainability, the book supplies a rich history ...
Review Of Ecology & Economics Of The Great Plains By Daniel S. Licht, David M. Armstrong Oct 1997
Review Of Ecology & Economics Of The Great Plains By Daniel S. Licht, David M. Armstrong
This book provides an excellent review of its several subjects. I admire the breadth of its vision. It argues for restoration of grasslands on a meaningful scale. It is an important book and in many ways it is a good book, but the subject deserves a great book.
Considering its range, actual errors are few. The problems lie in focus, organization, and integration. The fundamental ecological inadequacy is the deliberate (p. 2) neglect of the extraordinary diversity of grassland ecosystems. Tall grass prairie differs in kind from shortgrass steppe: in predominant flora, fauna, primary and secondary productivity, in dollar-value per ...
Review Of Social Policy And Social Justice: The Ndp Government In Saskatchewan During The Blakeney Years Edited By Jim Harding, Allen Seager Oct 1997
Review Of Social Policy And Social Justice: The Ndp Government In Saskatchewan During The Blakeney Years Edited By Jim Harding, Allen Seager
Long a fixture on the Canadian political landscape, and best known outside province for a dogged defense of provincial rights in pursuit of its state entrepreneurial agenda, the three-term NDP government of Saskatchewan's Allan Blakeney (1979-1982) is beginning to attract a more critical and systematic attention, centered around the traditional paradox of populism on the Great Plains: the admixture of conservative community values with a more or less radical economic view. Jim Harding, a left NDP activist and Regina city Councilor as well as an academic sociologist-a narrow cross section of the social science community, exclusive of history and ...
Review Of Changing Rural Institutions: A Canadian Perspective Edited By Richard C. Rounds, Paul H. Gessaman Oct 1997
Review Of Changing Rural Institutions: A Canadian Perspective Edited By Richard C. Rounds, Paul H. Gessaman
In seventeen independently-developed chapters this book provides a multi-dimensional examination of the restructuring of rural institutions and institutional systems in Canada. Though not stated in the book narrative, it appears the chapters were written for the Seventh National Canadian Rural Restructuring Foundation/Canadian Agricultural and Rural Restructuring Group Conference held in the City of Grande Prairie, Alberta. No information on the conference dates or other circumstances is provided. The editor acknowledges financial support by a relatively large number of organizations, public sector units, and private sector businesses, as well as the efforts of the conference staff and volunteers. The latter ...
Review Of Native Americans And Wage Labor: Ethnohistorical Perspectives Edited By Alice Littlefield And Martha C. Knack, Ronald L. Trosper Oct 1997
Review Of Native Americans And Wage Labor: Ethnohistorical Perspectives Edited By Alice Littlefield And Martha C. Knack, Ronald L. Trosper
The ten essays in Native Americans and Wage Labor provide an excellent source for information regarding the participation of Native Americans in labor markets in the United States from colonial times to the present. The editors' introductory essay reviews the literature showing that wage labor by Native Americans is not a recent phenomenon. It was crucial to the survival of some Native groups when other means of sustenance were removed. At particular times and places, Native labor was also crucial to settlers who needed to harvest crops, construct railroads, or build mines. Many of these examples are furnished by essays ...
Depopulation Of The Rural Great Plains Counties Of Texas, Charlene R. Nickels, Frederick A. Day Oct 1997
Depopulation Of The Rural Great Plains Counties Of Texas, Charlene R. Nickels, Frederick A. Day
The counties of the Texas Great Plains have been part of a depopulation of the rural "heartland" of the United States. This paper traces the loss of population in these counties since 1910 and tries to account for the reasons underlying the trend. Four major groups of variables are analyzed through stepwise regression to determine their relative conceptual importance: demographic factors (age-structure and percent Hispanic), environmental factors (annual rainfall, percent irrigated land, and amount of oil production), geographic factors (distance to an urban central place and population size of a county's central place) and socioeconomic factors (lack of diversification ...
The Politics Of Elementary Schools In A German-American Roman Catholic Settlement In Canada'S Province Of Saskatchewan, 1903-1925, Clinton O. White Oct 1997
The Politics Of Elementary Schools In A German-American Roman Catholic Settlement In Canada'S Province Of Saskatchewan, 1903-1925, Clinton O. White
Scholars who have studied the political behavior of residents of Canada's province of Saskatchewan conclude that members of minority groups such as Roman Catholics and people of Central and Eastern European background voted Liberal much more frequently than Conservative, at least prior to the 1930s. There is no reason to question this conclusion when voting throughout the province by a specific minority is considered. However, the same is not always found to be true when the voting behavior of a particular minority group in a single constituency is examined. This paper discusses the German Catholics of the Humboldt Constituency ...
Microclimate Of An Aboriginal Winter Campsite At Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatoom, E. A. Ripley, O. W. Archibold, C. Jackson, E. J. Walker Oct 1997
Microclimate Of An Aboriginal Winter Campsite At Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatoom, E. A. Ripley, O. W. Archibold, C. Jackson, E. J. Walker
The microclimate of an aboriginal winter campsite, set in an incised, south-facing meander of a small creek, is compared to the conditions on the adjacent open prairie at Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Maximum and minimum temperatures and wind speeds were measured daily, on the prairie and in the valley, along with temperatures in a modern canvas tipi erected in the valley. Maximum temperatures tended to be about 1 °C higher in the valley, and 2 °C higher in the tipi, than on the prairie, while minima were 1-2 °C lower. Wind speeds were reduced to about 50% in the ...
Annual Index - Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 1997 Oct 1997
Annual Index - Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 1997
News And Notes - Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 1997 Oct 1997
News And Notes - Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 1997
Review Of Dividing New Mexico's Waters, 1700-1912 By John O. Baxter, Kenneth Orona Oct 1997
Review Of Dividing New Mexico's Waters, 1700-1912 By John O. Baxter, Kenneth Orona
In Dividing New Mexico's Waters, 1700-1912, John O. Baxter examines New Mexico's sordid water history spanning more than two-hundred years and three colonial empires-Spanish, Mexican, and American. Drawing on a range of primary documents including legal cases, Surveyor General reports, deed books, Spanish and Mexican records, and U.S. territorial papers, Baxter pieces together a complex and informative story of water allocation and management. The pervasive theme running throughout the book addresses the gulf between political structures and legal statutes colonial powers established to administer water usage and the more common and pragmatic forms citizens employed to manage ...
Review Of The Texas Challenge: Population Change And The Future Of Texas Edited By Steve H. Murdock, Nazrul Hoque, Martha Michael, Steve White, And Beverly Pecotte, Robert K. Holz Oct 1997
Review Of The Texas Challenge: Population Change And The Future Of Texas Edited By Steve H. Murdock, Nazrul Hoque, Martha Michael, Steve White, And Beverly Pecotte, Robert K. Holz
Steve H. Murdock, in collaboration with four secondary authors, has produced an intriguing but somewhat puzzling book on population change and the future of Texas. While population studies are certainly within the authors' domain of Rural Sociology, Texas is no longer a "rural" state based on population. Over eighty percent of the state's population now resides in urban areas, although Texas laws, traditions, and attitudes still honor and project a rural mystique. This might have been emphasized as part of the Texas Challenge.
Throughout the text the authors emphasize four major trends in Texas population: the changing rate of ...
Review Of Peyote: The Divine Cactus By Edward F. Anderson, Daniel Gelo Oct 1997
Review Of Peyote: The Divine Cactus By Edward F. Anderson, Daniel Gelo
The explanation of peyote, the hallucinogenic cactus central to several American Indian ceremonies, requires forays into many diverse fields, from chemistry and botany to ethnomusicology, frontier history, and legal studies. Other books approach peyote via the anthropology of ritual, appending material about the cactus itself. Anderson's work, which first appeared in 1980, places the plant at the heart of inquiry. This new edition offers minor reorganization and a major updating in style and content.
Review Of Of Bison And Man By Harold P. Danz, James R. Shortridge Oct 1997
Review Of Of Bison And Man By Harold P. Danz, James R. Shortridge
Because plains bison have come to symbolize open spaces and freedom to Americans, as well as past ecological insensitivity, stories about them have widespread appeal. Harold Danz's contribution to this large and growing literature is an overview, a brief treatment of the animal's evolution, demise, and eventual recovery. Mr. Danz brings a varied background to his writing: long-time service with the National Park Service, a PhD, and the first executive directorship of the American Bison Association (ABA). This experience produces an unusual book, one that mixes detached analysis with enthusiastic promotion. The promotion sections, in my opinion, are ...
Review Of Grazing On Public Lands, Kathleen H. Keeler Oct 1997
Review Of Grazing On Public Lands, Kathleen H. Keeler
The CAST (Council on Agricultural Science and Technology) report "Grazing on Public Lands" is a pamphlet. The mission statement inside the front cover leads one to expect an objective look at the impact of grazing on public lands. The topic may be so controversial that an objective look is impossible, and this idea is certainly supported by the Task Force Report. This report argues that the current management of grazing on public lands is sustainable, promotes biodiversity and that any change (such as increases in federal grazing fees) will adversely affect western communities.
For a short report, this one is ...
The Prairie Indian Vote In Canadian Politics 1965-1993: A Critical Case Study From Alberta, Russel Lawrence Barsh, Michelle Fraser, Faye Morning Bull, Toby Provost, Kirby Smith May 1997
The Prairie Indian Vote In Canadian Politics 1965-1993: A Critical Case Study From Alberta, Russel Lawrence Barsh, Michelle Fraser, Faye Morning Bull, Toby Provost, Kirby Smith
Voting behavior in the three largest Aboriginal communities of Alberta-Blood Tribe, Peigan Nation, and Four Nations-is contrasted with non-Aboriginal voting behavior using polling-station counts from 16 general elections and the 1992 constitutional referendum. Lower voter turnout and distinctive patterns of party preferences among Aboriginal voters are examined more closely using data collected through standardized, open-ended interviews conducted in conjunction with a voter mobilization effort on the Peigan Reserve in 1996. Although respondents did not report refraining from participation in Federal or Provincial elections to avoid compromising their sovereignty-an argument sometimes made by national Aboriginal organizations-the responses often exhibited pessimism or ...
Farmsteads As Mirrors Of Cultural Adjustments And Change: The Ukrainian Canadian Experience, James W. Darlington May 1997
Farmsteads As Mirrors Of Cultural Adjustments And Change: The Ukrainian Canadian Experience, James W. Darlington
Farmsteads reflect more than the nature and health of agricultural activity on individual farms and across geographic regions; they provide a reliable record of other aspects of cultural and economic adjustment and change. This paper considers the farmsteads constructed by the Ukrainian immigrants and their descendants who settled in one district of the Canadian prairies beginning in 1896. A field survey of four townships reveals that between the time of initial settlement and the present four distinct generations of farm structures were erected. These generations of buildings-labeled here pioneer, traditional, transitional, and modern provide clear evidence of the economic progress ...


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The U.S. Senate on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) committee was initiated in 1869 and took on several names to include the Committee on Education, the Education and Labor committee, and in 1999, it assumed its current name ("U.S. Senate Committee on Health," n.d.). The purpose of the HELP committee is to comprehensively study and review concerns related to the health, education and training, and public welfare of American citizens. The committee reviews all proposed legislation, messages, and memorials along with other matters relating to twenty different subjects ranging from aging, equal employment opportunity, mediation and arbitration of labor disputes', to public health, student loans, and wages and hours of labor ("U.S.…show more content…
If both the Senate and the House pass the bill, it is then sent to the president for his signature leading to the bill becoming a law (United States Senate, n.d.).
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•	Lamar Alexander (TN)
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•	Richard Burr (NC)
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•	Rand Paul (KY)
•	Susan Collins (ME)
•	Lisa Murkowski (AK)
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•	Tim Scott (SC)
•	Orrin Hatch (UT)
•	Pat Roberts (KS)
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•	Barbara Mikulski (MD)
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•	Al Franken (MN)
•	Michael F. Bennet (CO)
•	Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)
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•	Christopher S. Murphy (CT)
•	Elizabeth Warren (MA) Republican Senator Lamar Alexander is the chairman of HELP, and his respective duties include the following:
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•	overseeing and upholding order of committee meetings
•	deciding which questions of order will be subjected to repeal
•	superintending and guiding the committee staff •	organizing, or supervising the organization of reports of the committee for submissions to the appropriate
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Having Saved Syria, Putin Now Looking to Do the Same to Libya
Somebody's gotta do it.
By Azeem Ibrahim, (Al Arabiya)
Originally appeared at Al Arabiya
After imposing Moscow's will on the situation in Syria, Putin is moving on to Libya. And this new proxy conflict he is waging with the West has many of the same hallmarks of the last one: the West backs a pitiful attempt at a 'democratic' government with unfortunate Islamist leanings, Putin backs an authoritarian, militaristic autocrat, and ISIS sits squarely in the middle, a target of everyone's rhetoric but too rarely of their weapons.
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Putin Vows To Protect Kurds In Turkey As War Of The Century Looms
by Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Russian President Vladimir Putin has authorised the Russian military and intelligence community to protect Kurdish people against the threat of Turkey – who have threatened to "cleanse" all Kurds.
Putin issued the order to protect the Kurds under the authority of Article 87 of the Russian Constitution – which states that Putin is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
With Turkey now being named as a "belligerent hostile threat" to the Federation in this conflict, this report further explains, President Putin in issuing his order also cited the Turkish governments material and financial support of Islamic State terrorists as evidenced by the MoD discovering this week 12,000 oil tankers and trucks on the Turkey-Iraq border carrying stolen petroleum wealth legally owned by Iraq and Syria.
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Putin: Turkey 'will regret' downing Russian bomber in Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin has castigated Turkey's leaders, warning that they will regret shooting down a Russian Su-24 bomber in Syria.
In a state of the nation speech, broadcast live on Russian television, he said that "if anyone thinks Russia's reaction will be limited to trade sanctions, they are deeply mistaken".
"We'll remind them again what they did – they will regret it."
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Why Russia needs China to buy its weapons
Despite intellectual property concerns, Russia recently agreed to sell 24 Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets to China – a deal worth $2 billion. But what is driving Moscow to seek deeper trade ties with Beijing? DW examines.
By Gabriel Domínguez
The deal, announced last week by Russian defense conglomerate Rostec, makes China the first foreign contractor of the multi-role Sukhoi Su-35 (main picture), an upgraded and highly maneuverable fighter jet. While the deal has yet to be confirmed by Beijing, Russian daily newspaper Kommersantquoted Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov on November 19 as saying: "The protracted talks on Su-35 deliveries to China have ended. We have signed the contract."
The agreement reportedly includes not only the supply of 24 jets to the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) for a total of $2 billion ($83 million per unit) but also the delivery of ground support equipment and reserve aircraft engines. The first batch of the planes, with the NATO reporting name Flanker-E, is expected to be delivered next year.
A win-win situation?
Russian sales of advanced weapons to China, including modern combat aircraft, are not new. Indeed, throughout the post-Soviet period, China has been one of Russia's most important customers for arms exports. The Chinese have been purchasing systems, such as the Su-27 fighter jet, and advanced surface-to-air missiles, from Russia for over a decade.
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The Czar vs. the Sultan
Putin and Erdogan see themselves as heirs to proud empires. But fighter jets and tough talk can't mask imperial decline.
BY JULIA IOFFE
Before Crimea was Russian, or Ukrainian, or even Soviet, it was Turkish. Well, Ottoman. And Russia had already annexed Crimea once before 2014, long before — in 1783. This was after a six-year war with the Turks, in which the Russians essentially wiped out the Ottoman navy. The conflict ended with the Treaty of Kainardrji, signed in 1774, which has come to be seen by historians as the first partition of the Ottoman Empire, the beginning of its long, slow decline. In losing Crimea to Russia, the Ottoman Empire, for the first time ever, lost Muslim subjects to a Christian power. (The Crimean Tatars, who have been especially opposed to Moscow's newest takeover of the peninsula, are the vestigial limb left behind by the Ottomans, bucking again at its new Russian owner — which has, in turn,cracked down on them.) That war and the treaty that ended it, Bernard Lewis wrote some 200 years later, was "the turning point in the relations between Europe and the Middle East."
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Russia to halt visa-free status for visiting Turks
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's announcement comes amid continuing tension over downing of Russian warplane by Turkey.
Moscow is to suspend its visa-free agreement with Turkey at the beginning of next year, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
Friday's announcement comes as tensions mount after the downing of a Russian fighter jet by Turkey earlier this week.
Russia has ruled out any military response against NATO member Turkey, but it has pledged broad retaliatory measures targeting entire sectors of the Turkish economy, including tourism, agriculture and investments.
On Thursday, two Turkish businessmen with investments in Russia told Al Jazeera that Russian police have been raiding Turkish companies in different regions of the country and, in some cases, have suspended their operations.
Moscow has also started sending back Turkish trucks loaded with exports at the border and stopped Turkish tourists – who normally do not need visas – entering the country, at least two businessmen said.
"A decision has been made to halt the visa-free regime with Turkey," Lavrov told reporters after talks with his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem in Moscow.
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Downing of Russian plane is a 'stab in the back' from Turkey, says Putin
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin called Turkey's downing of a Russian fighter jet a stab in the back administered by "the accomplices of terrorists," saying the incident would have serious consequences for Moscow's relations with Ankara.
Speaking in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on Tuesday before a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah, Putin said the downed plane had been attacked inside Syria when it was one kilometre from the Turkish border and had come down four kilometres inside Syria.
That contradicted Turkey's assertion that the aircraft had been warned multiple times that it was straying into Turkish airspace before it was shot down.
"Today's loss is a stab in the back delivered to us by accomplices of terrorists. I cannot qualify what happened today as anything else," said a visibly furious Putin.
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Russia's 'Most Ruthless' Special Forces Dispatched To Root Out ISIS
By Edmondo Burr
Russia has sent her 'most ruthless' and highly regarded special forces unit to Syria to track down and root out Islamic State (ISIS) militants.
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Putin: Those guilty of terrorist attack on board A321 will be found and punished
"We will find them in any point of the globe and they will be punished," the president stresses
MOSCOW, November 17./TASS/ Russian President Vladimir Putin said that those guilty of the terrorist act on board the Russian A321 airliner in Egypt would be found and punished.
"It is not for the first time that Russia is facing barbarous terrorist crimes, largely without apparent causes, external or domestic, as it was the case with the blast at a railway station in Volgograd at the end of 2013. We have not forgotten anything and anyone," Putin said at a session he chaired late on Monday.
"The murder of our nationals in Sinai is among the bloodiest crimes as to the number of casualties," he said. "We will not be wiping tears away from our souls and our hearts. This will stay with us forever," Putin continued.
"But this will not prevent us from finding and punishing the criminals," Putin pledged.
"We must be doing this without limitations period, and know each of them by name. We will be searching them everywhere, no matter where they hide. We will find them in any point of the globe and they will be punished," the president stressed.
Read more » TASS
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Russia ready to support Lebanon in countering Daesh terrorists
The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed readiness to cooperate closely with the Lebanese authorities in countering the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group.
A day after two deadly bombings occurred on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital, President Putin sent a condolence message to Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and assured assistance to Beirut in its fight against Daesh terrorists, the Kremlin press service said on Friday.
Putin also said that Russia can help track down the perpetrators of the two massive explosions that hit a security post in the Borj al-Barajaneh area in a southern suburb of Beirut. Daesh claimed responsibility for the twin attacks that killed over 40 people and injured 240 others.
Read more » Press TV
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The World's Most Powerful People 2015
By David M. Ewalt
Russian President Vladimir Putin emerged as the world's most powerful person for the third year running. Putin continues to prove he's one of the few men in the world powerful enough to do what he wants –and get away with it. International sanctions set in place after he seized Crimea and waged war-by-proxy in Ukraine have kneecapped the Ruble and driven Russia into deepening recession, but haven't hurt Putin one bit: In June his approval ratings reached an all-time high of 89%. In October, he bombed ISIS forces in Syria and then met face-to-face with President Assad, making the U.S and NATO look weak in the region, and helping rebuild Russian influence abroad.
Read more » Forbes
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Pakistan: Russia's New Best Friend?
We may be entering a period in which India's tighter embrace of the United States brings Russia closer to Pakistan, and Russia's bolstering of ties with Pakistan brings India closer to the United States.
By Arif Rafiq
As the U.S.-India embrace tightens, former Cold War foes Pakistan and Russia are bolstering ties with one another. Pakistan was an early Cold War partner of the United States, ultimately helping to evict the Soviets from Afghanistan in 1989. While India proclaimed a policy of non-alignment, it was firmly allied with the Soviet Union, which served as its chief defense supplier for decades. Those strong ties continued following the end of the Cold War into recent years.
While India's defense arsenal remains overwhelmingly Russian in origin, over the past four years, Washington has supplanted Moscow to become New Delhi's top defense supplier. Moscow, realizing that its longtime partner is now seeing other people, has lifted an arms embargo on Islamabad, which is keen on modernizing its military and reducing its dependence on Washington.
Budding cooperation between Pakistan and Russia goes beyond military sales. The two countries will also boost economic and energy cooperation. And a strategic partnership may be down the road—potentially involving China.
Read more » The National Interest
See more » http://www.nationalinterest.org/feature/pakistan-russias-new-best-friend-13945
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Putin and Saudi defense minister meet in Russia, agree on common goals in Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia's defense minister have agreed that Moscow and Riyadh should pursue common goals in Syria, including national reconciliation and combating terrorists, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said.
Putin met with Sheikh Mohammed bin Salman for talks on the sidelines of a Formula 1 race in Sochi on Sunday. The meeting was also attended by the foreign ministers of both states.
"The sides confirmed that Saudi Arabia and Russia have similar goals concerning Syria," said Russian FM Sergey Lavrov following the talks. "First of all, they are to prevent a terrorist caliphate from getting the upper hand in Syria."
Read more » RT
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Reports: Chinese ships head to Syria
Translated by Kristina Rus
China deploys troops to help Russia in Syria
Remember the joint military exercises of Russia and China in the sea and on land? With landing on shore and fighting against terrorists?
And here is the answer to the question of why they trained together.
Rusvesna:
"An Arab news source [Al Masdar News] reports that a military contingent of the PRC is on the way to Latakia and will arrive in Syrian ports any day. Chinese transport with military cargo was spotted on Tuesday morning, passing through the Suez canal.
Information about the Chinese military experts heading to Tartus was confirmed by the commander of the Syrian army. The report concludes that Moscow will create in Syria an anti-terrorist coalition that will become the alternative version of the military alliance formed by the US for dropping supplies to ISIS. Military entrance of China into the struggle for Syria will be an important addition to today's statement by the Iranian Foreign Ministry. At a press conference with "Russia Today" deputy foreign minister of Iran, Hossein Amir Abdollahian stated that Iran will fight ISIS together with Russia. Notably Amir talked not just about an alliance, but a creation of a broad military coalition.
"We welcome the Russian President's proposal on establishment of a common front in a fight against terrorism and are even ready in realizing this initiative to carry out joint operations and cooperate together," – said deputy foreign minister of Iran.
That Russia will fight terrorists with Iran's hands, English resources have been writing for a week. And the joining of China into the support group has exceeded all imaginable expectations. The presence of the international coalition significantly changes the balance of power in favor of Moscow, untying Russian hands for direct military action in the Middle East."
It seems that Russia has finally returned to the Middle East.
Courtesy: Fort Russ
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Putin: Let's trade in BRICS currencies
President Vladimir Putin says Russia is interested in using national currencies with other BRICS members after agreeing on such an arrangement with China.
He made the announcement after meeting leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa in Ufa in the Urals for a summit of BRICS nations.
"I think that such development with India, Brazil and South Africa would be interesting and could no doubt lift the level of trade turnover," Putin said.
The BRICS accounts for almost half the world's population and about one-fifth of global economic output. Member states have established the New Development Bank with an initial capital of $100 billion and an additional pool of $100 billion currency reserves.
"A pool of nominal currency reserves, with capital of $100 billion, will give us an opportunity to react to financial market fluctuations in a timely and appropriate manner," Putin said.
The Russian leader said the new development bank will begin financing energy projects next year.
"The New Development Bank will be financing large-scale transport and energy projects and industrial development," he said.
Economists see the new bank as a challenge to the domination of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund which are under the US influence.
Putin said BRICS nations will work out a roadmap for investment cooperation by the end of the year when the first projects will be launched.
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Russia Opens Door To Greece As Sixth Member Of New BRICS World Bank: Russian Oil Makes Athens Europe's Energy Hub!
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday held a telephone conversation with Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak. During the conversation, Storchak invited Greece to become the sixth member of the New Development Bank of BRICS countries, Greece's Syriza party reported on its website. Storchak is a representative of the BRICS Bank which is now being established.
Read more » Political Vel Craft
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Toe-to-Toe with Putin: Canada Is Keeping an Eye on Expanding Russian Military In the Arctic
by Ben Makuch
Today, in the morning hours of Moscow time, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave orders for snap military exercises in the Russian Far North. The sudden "combat readiness" maneuvers of the Northern Fleet are just the latest military flexing in the Arctic by Putin since the Ukraine crisis began in 2013.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu is quoted in Sputnik News, the English wing of the state media apparatus, explaining that the exercises are designed to test Russia's ability to defend its Arctic regions.
"New challenges and threats of military security demand the further heightening of military capabilities of the Armed Forces and special attention will be paid to the state of the newly formed strategic merging [of forces] in the North," said Shoigu.
Back in January, Putin announced major spending plans for Russian military infrastructure in the Arctic as well as expanding the very Northern Fleet currently testing its mettle.
Canada, a major Arctic player and key opponent to Russia in the quest for expanded borders in the Far North looked at that military expansionism with concern.
"Canada is aware of Russia's announced military infrastructure developments in its North," said a spokesperson for Foreign Affairs at the time, "[W]e remain vigilant in our surveillance of the Arctic."
Along with Canada, Russia and other Arctic nations are making competing United Nations bids over potentially lucrative Arctic lands, staking a claim on a region with reportedly 90 billion barrels worth of oil sitting untapped beneath the frozen crust.
"Our objective has been to obtain the most expansive continental shelf for Canada. We are working to ensure that Canada secures international recognition of the full extent of our continental shelf, including the North Pole," said the Foreign Affairs spokesperson.
At the same time, the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) is detecting an uptick in Russian long range bombers approaching the the US and Canadian Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ)—something that hasn't happened as regularly since the end of the Cold War.
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Russian President Putin will visit Pakistan soon
BY IFTIKHAR MASHWANI
ISLAMABAD: Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Pakistan soon to boost bilateral relations between Pakistan and Russia.This was disclosed by Adviser to Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Sunday in Islamabad.
He said the date is not finalized for Putin visit, but Pakistan already invited Russian President and he accepted the our invitation. Pakistan and Russia have great potentials to boost their relations in all Fields including social,economic and defense and strategic sectors. Pakistan and Russia are important countries of the region and both countries can play pivotal role in the stability in the region.
In the present circumstances, Russia become a most important country for Pakistan. Now Russia is no longer ignored by Pakistani policymakers. Ties are warming up between Islamabad and Moscow in the past few years as geo-strategic ties have been changing the world over.
When the relationship was set to emerge, Pakistan and Russia have been repairing their fences hard hit by the hard Cold War realities. China in the Pakistan-Russia framework is a guarantor and an honest broker. These relations have been fast emerging against the backdrop of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) where Pakistan stands as an observer but trying to seek full-membership of the organization, hopefully this year when the organizations will meet in Russia.Russia already ready to support Pakistani membership in the SCO. Beijing guides Moscow toward Islamabad.Russia,China and Pakistan will becomes strong regional allies for all level.
Read more » World Tribune Pakistan
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Former PM Jean Chrétien to meet with Vladimir Putin in Moscow
By STEVEN CHASE, The Globe and Mail
OTTAWA – Former prime minister Jean Chrétien is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week, a tête-à-tête that comes even as relations between Ottawa and Moscow are severely strained over the invasion of Ukraine.
The former Liberal leader, whose law firm, Dentons, has an office in Moscow, is expected to meet Mr. Putin on Thursday in the Russian capital and discuss the current state of relations between his country and the West.
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Greek PM Tsipras to meet with Putin in Moscow.
Russia, Greece to discuss EU sanctions, economy in Moscow
(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras plan to discuss economic ties and the European Union's sanctions against Moscow when they meet for talks next week, a Kremlin spokesman said on Friday.
Russia wants the EU to lift the sanctions imposed over Moscow's role in the turmoil in Ukraine and hopes to get support from some EU member states, notably Hungary and Greece.
The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said it was too early to talk about any possibility of Moscow providing financial help to the cash-strapped Greece before the talks.
"Relations between Moscow and the European Union will be discussed in the light of Brussels's policy of sanctions and Athens' quite cold attitude to this policy," Peskov said.
Greece's new left-wing government has said it will not seek aid from Moscow but has so far failed to reach a deal with its EU/IMF creditors to unlock fresh funds.
Putin and Tsipras will meet in Moscow on Apr.8. It will be Tsipras' first visit to the Russian capital after his leftist Syriza party swept to victory in a snap election in January.
Tsipras visited Moscow in May, 2014, and attended a conference on ties between Russiaand Greece, as well as being received by senior Russian state officials. Five other members of the Greek delegation now also hold senior government roles in Athens. (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin)
News courtesy: Reuters
Read more » http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/03/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-greece-idUSKBN0MU0NF20150403
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Lithuania Puts Military Units on Alert Due to Russian Activities in Kaliningrad
BY LITHUANIA TRIBUNE
"Since the end of the last week, since Saturday, we have observed a rise in the activity of the Russian Federation's forces in the Kaliningrad region as well as in the western part of the Russian Federation. Therefore, a decision was made to put several of our military units on a higher state of preparedness. These are rapid response units as well as units responsible for military tasks during peacetime," Chief of the Joint Staff Vilmantas Tamošaitis said.
Read more » Atlantic Council
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Putin Woos Pakistan as Cold War Friend India Buys U.S. Arms
By Natalie Obiko Pearson and N.C Bipindra
Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking to build military ties with Pakistan as India buys more weapons from the U.S., changing an approach toward the nuclear-powered neighbors that has endured since the Cold War. Sergei Shoigu, making the first visit by a Russian defense minister to Pakistan since the Soviet Union's collapse, last week signed a "milestone" military cooperation agreement. The world community "wants to do business with Pakistan now," Shoigu said, according to a Pakistan government statement.
Read more » Bloomberg
See more » https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-23/putin-looks-to-pakistan-as-cold-war-friend-india-buys-u-s-arms.html
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Falling oil price costs Russia $100bn
Oil price slide and sanctions 'cost Russia $140bn'
The falling oil price is costing Russia up to $100bn a year, while Western sanctions have hit the country by $40bn, its finance minister has said.
Anton Siluanov made the comments on Monday at an international financial and economic forum in Moscow.
Reports on Monday suggested Russia could cut its oil production by about 300,000 barrels a day in an attempt to support the oil price.
Opec members meet in Vienna this week where falling prices will be discussed.
Vladimir Putin has said that Russia could suffer "catastrophic consequences" from sanctions, the falling oil price and the sliding rouble, while claiming they would have knock-on effects for other countries.
"The modern world is interdependent. It's far from guaranteed that sanctions, the steep fall in oil prices and the loss of value of the national currency will lead to negative results or catastrophic consequences only for us," the Russian president told TASS, the official news agency, on Sunday.
The European Union and the United States imposed sanctions on Russia following its annexation of the Crimea region in Ukraine and its alleged involvement in eastern Ukraine.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30174650
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Putin, Xi Jinping sign second mega gas deal on new gas supply route
President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have signed a memorandum of understanding on the so-called "western" gas supplies route to China. The agreement paves the way for a contract that would make China the biggest consumer of Russian gas.
Russia's so-called "western" or "Altay" route would supply 30 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas a year to China.
The new supply line comes in addition to the "eastern" route, through the "Power of Siberia" pipeline, which will annually deliver 38 bcm of gas to China. Work on that pipeline route has already begun after a $400 billion deal was clinched in May.
"After we have launched supplies via the "western route," the volume of gas deliveries to China can exceed the current volumes of export to Europe," Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller told reporters, commenting on the deal.
Speaking to journalists on the eve of his visit to Beijing, Putin was optimistic about prospects for the new gas deal with China.
"We have reached an understanding in principle concerning the opening of the western route," Putin said. "We have already agreed on many technical and commercial aspects of this project, laying a good basis for reaching final arrangements."
The "western" route deal is one of the 17 agreements signed at the Sunday meeting between Putin and Xi.
http://rt.com/business/203679-china-russia-gas-deal/
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The rise of Putinism
By Fareed Zakaria Opinion writer
When the Cold War ended, Hungary occupied a special place in the story of the revolutions of 1989. It was one of the first countries in the Soviet orbit to abandon communism and embrace liberal democracy. Today it is again a trendsetter, becoming the first European country to denounce and distance itself from liberal democracy. It is adopting a new system and set of values that are best exemplified by Vladimir Putin's Russia but are finding echoes in other countries as well.
In a major speech last weekend, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban explained that his country is determined to build a new political model — illiberal democracy. This caught my eye because, in 1997, I wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs using that same phrase to describe a dangerous trend. Democratic governments, often popular, were using their mandates to erode individual rights, the separation of powers and the rule of law. But even I never imagined that a national leader — from Europe no less — would use the term as a badge of honor.
Read more » The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fareed-zakaria-the-rise-of-putinism/2014/07/31/2c9711d6-18e7-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.html
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Moscow will respond to NATO's expansion towards Russia's borders, President Vladimir Putin said
'We will react to NATO build-up!' Key Putin quotes from defense policy address
Moscow will respond to NATO's expansion towards Russia's borders, President Vladimir Putin said at the emergency Security Council meeting in Moscow. Here are his key quotes on Russia's defense, Western sanctions, and violence in eastern Ukraine.
http://rt.com/news/174768-putin-security-nato-ukraine/
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Putin Writes Off $32 Billion of Cuba's Debts to Russia
By Polly Mosendz | The Atlantic Wire
Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently on a grand tour of Latin America. His first stop is in Havana, Cuba. Ahead of arriving in Cuba, Putin decided to bestow a gift upon the Cuban government. With one swift signature, he eliminated $32 billion of Cuba's debt, left over from the Soviet era.
Read more » Yahoo News
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'US hegemony in world has ended' – Russia's deputy security chief
The deputy head of Russia's supreme security body says US international dominance is being replaced by multiple centers of power. He urged a global agreement on the results of the Cold War, warning that the world could otherwise become engulfed in chaos.
"The United States has an impression that the breakup of the Soviet Union was the only result of the Cold War. This is arguable, and this is possible. But no one has attempted to analyze the results or make any conclusions from the situation. The unipolar world headed by Americans simply appeared," Evgeny Lukyanov told the RIA Novosti.
"However, this status quo was not built to last. New power centers have appeared on the international arena, including the BRICS nations, and Russia itself has managed to regain its stance. Nations openly declare their interests and demand respect to their basic rights. This is how the US hegemony on the international arena has ended and of course Washington officials cannot agree with this," the Russian official stated. Lukyanov emphasized in the interview that the USSR was no more.
Read more » http://rt.com/politics/169860-us-hegemony-brics-russia/
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Russia-China deal: Even energy pivots East
By Patrick L Young
The thing about globalization is that it involves the whole world. Hence Russia exercises its option to pivot East when faced with an obdurate West.
Bubbles share a core attitude of mind: complete incapacity to recognize that the real world may not correspond to your immediate surroundings. Thus investors become absorbed by manias from tulip bulbs to the South Sea, the internet et al, and fail to realize that 'asset' values have fundamentally decoupled from reality.
Read more » http://rt.com/op-edge/160212-russia-china-gas-deal-east/
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Stalin-Mao roles reversed as Putin visits China seeking investment
Stalin-Mao Roles Reverse as Putin Courts China Investment
By Stepan Kravchenko and Henry Meyer
China, which relied on Soviet aid during the era of Joseph Stalinand Mao Zedong, has turned the tables as Russian PresidentVladimir Putin visits Shanghai.
The Russian leader starts a two-day visit to China today, seeking to complete an agreement on natural gas supplies to the world's second-largest economy, held up for more than a decade because of a debate over the price. The contract is "nearly finalized," Putin told Chinese media in aninterview published yesterday.
Putin is looking to cement ties with China as the conflict in Ukraine alienates him from the U.S. and its European allies. The relationship with China, Russia's biggest trading partner after the two-way volume surged sevenfold in the past decade to $94 billion last year, is becoming even more important as escalating sanctions threaten to tip the economy into recession.
"As Russia's relations with the West deteriorate, its ties with China will need to grow stronger," Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, said by e-mail. "Beijing, rather than Moscow, will be the senior power."
That role reversal is underscored by the disparity of the two countries' economic development during the past 35 years. In 1979, as Deng Xiaoping started an economic overhaul, China's output was 40 percent of the Soviet Russian Republic's — the present-day Russian Federation, according to astudy published this year by the Center for European Reform. By 2010, China's economy had become four times the size of Russia's, it said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-19/stalin-mao-roles-reverse-as-cold-shouldered-putin-courts-chinese.html
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Genre is the New Literature
Once upon, literature told us about what it meant to be human. Tales of struggles amongst the under class (or ruling class), in the modern day or distant past explored love, jealousy and the power of the human spirit to overcome all challenges.
At the same time, genre fiction was the stuff of boy's adventures and women's romance. The same shallow stories told repeatedly in different times and locations—the high seas, desert cities, make believe kingdoms.
Then something happened. Reviewers and prizes continued to hail literature as superior to genre, but literature became boring. Plot became inconsequential and/or a burden. Real literature, it seemed, eschewed pacing, multi-act structures and climaxes. These elements of story craft restricted a writer's ability to comment on life, which itself is often boring. It was as if its ability to entertain readers became secondary to how accurately a story reflected life. In other words, escapism was no longer the goal; readers should be grounded in a story that was as boring or brutal as their life.
Then something else happened. Genre fiction became important. No longer just romance or adventure, genre began using the "other" as a symbol of something in our society or in ourselves. While the Overlook Hotel in The Shining is terrifying, if you take away Jack Torrance's alcoholism the story falls apart. The possession of Regan McNeil is terrifying, but at its heart The Exorcist is about Chris McNeil's juggling being a single mom (in the 70s, no less) and a movie star.
In today's genre fiction, we are seeing fabulous science fiction, fantasy and horror stories that are about something. The Other of genre fiction is used to magnify a problem in our society or in our psychology and demonstrate its effects. And not just plot, but the pages of top genre anthologies and magazines are full of stories with rich characters, clear themes, immersive settings and strong narrative voices. These stories matter not just because they are excellent stories, but because they have taken over the role of literature: Telling tales that offer both an escapist experience and commentary on the human condition.
Canada, especially, is on the forefront of this movement. Edge Publishing's Tesseracts Thirteen is an all-horror/dark fantasy anthology, but with nary a gore-soaked, mad slasher story to be found. (Full disclouse: I have a story published in Tesseracts Thirteen.) Michael Kelly's new anthology Chilling Tales, also from Edge, continue the theme from Tesseracts Thirteen as an all-Canadian anthology of horror and dark fantasy. Rose Fox of Publishers Weekly commented "I don't know what's in the water up in Canada, but it's turning out some great writers" when it comes to speculative fiction.
It's for this reason why it's heartening to see things like the campaign to save the Sunburst Award (in which I took part) and the SpecFic Colloquium in Toronto this weekend. These are just two examples I know of, but imagine there must be many more going on around the world—events and awards that recognize speculative fiction has something to say.
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How can I share folders between one or more accounts?
Yes, when creating an account via the web administrative interface you must specify the default login directory for each account. To have accounts share the same directory simply specify the same root login path for each account.
Alternatively, you can create virtual paths for each user that point to specific directories. This is useful in situations where you want user A to see user B files but user B should not see user A files, or where you want both user A and user B to see a shared directory but still have their own jailed login directory.


I finally got off of the waiting list at the library for the audio book of Lady Midnight!! I am already loving it, which is no surprise since I have loved all of the other books in this epic series.
I got The Love Letter from NetGalley as an e-ARC and I like it so far. I'm only a couple of chapters in, but I am already intrigued by how the past and present are going to tie together. The publication date for this is approaching quickly, so I need to get a move on with this one!
I absolutely loved To Kill A Kingdom! This is definitely one of my favorite books I have read so far this year! It was dark, but also funny, and it had you rooting for two characters who were trying to kill each other, which is always a fun time 😉 A review for this one will be coming soon, so keep your eyes peeled for it.
The Strawberry Hearts Diner was such a cute and heartwarming story! I listened to it on audio, and the narrator, Brittany Pressley, was great! She had the cutest southern accent, and had very different voices for all of the female characters, which eliminated any confusion as to who was speaking. If you are looking for a sweet, light, romantic book, that will also make you incredibly hungry, this is a great pick!
I have been so excited to read Suitors and Sabotage, and I'm hoping it will be a fun and fairly quick read. I am a huge fan of the Regency era, as well as Jane Austen, and I've heard this is a great marriage of Austen and mystery!
For the time being, I'm going to have to put Dragonfly in Amber on the back burner, at least until I get the majority of my NetGalley books read and reviewed. But soon!!
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Fighting for a Dream: MMA INDIA Documentary
MMA India short documentary
MMA India is an independent film about the sport of MMA, and highlight some of the connections and stories that link India to the sport. Mixed Martial Arts is a full-contact combat sport, widely reported as the fastest growing sport today.
Initially designed to determine the most effective fighting style in the world. MMA today has captured the imagination of combat sports aficionados and transformed the lives of thousands of fighters.
With the American based organization, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, currently dominating the MMA world. Much attention has been lavished on the American MMA movement, but Indian MMA has its own story to tell.
The film explores the scope and depth of the emerging MMA revolution in India, from its humble origins in small towns and villages across the country. To its meteoric and sudden rise as an urban phenomenon. With money and fame being dished out, MMA has become the inheritor of India's famed combat traditions.
Attracting national champions from Kushti, boxing and wushu, for example. The tensions surfacing because of this transition are explored, as are the dynamics of this social change sweeping the country's martial traditions.
By listening to the people involved in this movement in India, speaking through this film. The viewer will be able to peel away the layers of uncertainty and vagueness that surround Indian MMA. As well as discover surprising connections to Indian popular culture, some of them going way back, like Amitabh Bacchan portraying a cage fighter in the 1981 Hindi film, Naseeb.
So get ready for a ride through the world of India's brave new fighters, men and women bravely representing India on this new platform. Their stories might help you find the conviction and motivation, to fight for your own dream…


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Jhanak Shukla is an Indian child prodigy who starred in well-known films such as Kal Ho Na Ho (2003) and Deadline: Sirf 24 Ghante (2006).
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Jhanak Shukla as seen in a picture that was taken in October 2022 (Jhanak Shukla / Instagram)
Jhanak attended Bhavans College from 2014 to 2017, where she pursued her Bachelor of Arts degree in History. After that, she studied at the Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute in Pune, Maharashtra from 2017 to 2019, graduating with a Master's degree in Ancient Indian History Research and Archaeology.
On the other hand, she also attended NMIMS Global from 2020 to 2022, where she earned her Master of Business Administration in Business Administration and Management.
Actress, Archaeologist
Father – Haril Shukla (Film Director)
Mother – Supriya Raina Shukla (Actress)
Siblings – Damia Shukla (Younger Sister)
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Swapnil Suryawanshi (2019-Present) – Jhanak is engaged to a man named Swapnil Suryawanshi. The couple started dating while she was in college doing her master's degree.
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Through her social media, Jhanak has either endorsed or promoted various brands including Eclat Superior.
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In 2003, Jhanak was cast in the Bollywood blockbuster film Kal Ho Na Ho, alongside the likes of actors Shahrukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, and Preity Zinta, where she portrayed the role of Gia Kapur, an adopted girl of Jenny Kapur played by actress Jaya Bachchan.
From 2000 to 2004, she made several appearances as Princy in the kids' series Son Pari.
Jhanak played the role of Anishka Goenka, who in the film Deadline: Sirf 24 Ghante (2006) was the kidnapped daughter of actress Konkona Sen Sharma and Rajit Kapur. The film also saw the likes of actor Irrfan Khan in the lead.
One of her earliest jobs was as a research intern for Pathil Heritage from September 2019 to November 2019. Later, she began an internship in event management at TIFA Working Studios for a month that year.
From February 2022 to May 2022, she worked as a gallery manager for Fidelitus Gallery.
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Better Evidence, Better Choices, Better Schools, a recent report from the Center for American Progress and the Knowledge Alliance, focuses on the evidence-based research provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). ESSA provisions ask districts and schools to consider various sources of evidence, make judgments about the strength and reliability of that evidence, and use that evidence to justify their choices of interventions. Contrasting these new standards with the scientifically based research requirements featured in previous federal legislation, the report aims to provide guidance for the state and local education agencies now tasked with implementing evidence-based school improvement practices. The guidance consists of eight recommendations for implementing evidence-based reform strategies: defining roles, using evidence clearinghouses, supporting robust decision-making, ensuring high-quality service providers, promoting communication, partnering with intermediate organizations, facilitating effective implementation and promoting continuous learning. While helpful general pieces of advice, these recommendations remain relatively vague and are grounded in neither the existing research literature nor the empirical study featured in the report. The nebulous idea of evidence-based policy is easy to agree about, but skims over more challenging questions. For instance, what counts as evidence, and who is able (and authorized) to determine what kinds of evidence are most relevant to local contexts? While this report raises a number of important issues, it leaves these more difficult questions unexplored.


The first module of the Kitsap branch Intermediate Climbing Course, which includes an evaluation of basic skills, leadership, anchors and the first part of self rescue training.
Registration closed on Dec 31 at 5:00 PM. Contact leader to be added or removed from roster.
This course is the Intermediate Essentials Module of the Kitsap branch Intermediate Climbing Course. If you are signed up for the intermediate package course, you do not need to sign up for this course. You will be automatically enrolled your first year as part of the package course. Continuing students should contact the course admins to be added to field trips.
The Kitsap Mountaineers' Intermediate Alpine Climbing Course is a leadership development course that will teach you the techniques necessary to safely lead climb rock, snow, and alpine ice (not water ice). Course graduates will have the knowledge and skills to organize and lead basic-level climbs and to participate in intermediate-level alpine, rock, and ice climbs. If you want to sign up for the entire intermediate course please do not sign up for this course, rather, sign up for the intermediate package course.
Mountaineering Oriented First Aid or Wilderness First Aid or equivalent (needs to be current by the Rescue Methods field trip of the Intermediate Essentials Module).
Students who register for the full intermediate package course will automatically be registered for this module their first year in the course. For continuing students, contact the course admins to be added to individual field trips (as students) or register as an instructor to assist with field trips.
Students who wish to take this module separately, register and pay on line at Mountaineers.org. Note that you are not officially admitted to the course until you successfully complete the Intermediate Evaluation field trip. You have one week after the Intermediate Evaluation to drop the course and request a partial refund, after which no refunds will be given.
Equipment needs will be discussed at the first classroom session.


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Micah 6: 6-8; Mark 11: 15-19 Part of a sermon series "Facetime with Jesus" immersing us into a story of encounter with Jesus from which the listener is invited to deeper life.
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Russ Ettinger doesn't know why the delicate young woman he found gasping for breath at the side of the road disappeared so abruptly—or even what her name is. We regularly check this is a fully automatic process the availability of servers, the links to which we offer you. I tried to be patient, but I was still annoyed that Dana made such a big, big deal about her having asthma. But he did know she aroused in him an overwhelming urge to love, cherish and protect. She wondered if Russ, or anyone, could possibly do that. Dana wanted was to be loved as the strong, independent woman she'd become. There has to be a deeper purpose behind his Samaritan act, because never has anyone so powerfully and immediately filled him with such an overwhelming desire to cherish and protect.
Russ Ettinger doesn't know why the delicate young woman he found gasping for breath at the side of the road disappeared so abruptly—or even what her name is. What he does know is he must find her again somehow. But Dana Madison is tired of being protected. Back to Shop for this title - in association with amazon. Really liked Russ and his attitude toward his skiing accident and the way he had lived in his past.
I went to summer camp through my fifteenth year in Maine, which explains the setting of so many of my stories , then spent my sixteenth summer learning to type and to drive two sk I was born and raised in suburban Boston. After three months of researching, plotting, and writing, she sold her first book. As fate would have it, she was out for a run and had a asthma attack as she was recovering along came Russ offe Dana Madison was a sheltered child and even as a woman her parents and brother protected her from everything physical. What she wants is to be respected and loved as the strong, vital, independent woman she has worked so hard to become. I became an actual writer by fluke. I'm an everyday woman writing about everyday people facing not-so-everyday challenges. I took ballroom dancing lessons.
What he does know is he must find her again somehow. What she wants is to be respected and loved as the strong, vital, independent woman she has worked so hard to become. There has to be a deeper purpose behind his Samaritan act, because never has anyone so powerfully and immediately filled him with such an overwhelming desire to cherish and protect. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. During her college years, she spent a watershed summer here.
She has also been published under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass. There has to be a d New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky delights with a compelling story of chance, fate, and perfect timing, first published in 1998. She'd gotten quite enough of that from her parents. They were always in fear that she would have an asthma attack. There was her desire to run races and be healthy and that was a bit simplified too.
Bestselling Author As a child psychologist, Dr. that's when things really heat up. And so she flees from a chance first meeting with a considerate stranger, a man who could possibly play a very important role in her future. Sometimes building a home can become a labor of love… Gideon Lowe has a unique vision: to develop Crosslyn Rise into one of the finest condominiums on the Eastern seaboard. The novel opens with a memorial service for. From Publishers WeeklyCassandra Casey Ellis, 34, a single, successful psychotherapist, is the newest of this prolific writer's heroines.
Delinsky married Steve Delinsky, a law student, when she was very young. Modern smartphones and computers can read files of any format. . Does the electronic version of the book completely replace the paper version? But Dana Madison is tired of being protected. She wondered if Russ, or anyone, could possibly do that. Her biggest dream was to run a race and to be independent. And so she flees from a chance first meeting with a considerate stranger, a man who could possibly play a very important role in her future.
Every cent has gone to my charitable foundation, which funds an ongoing research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Now, she only uses her married name Barbara Delinsky, and some of her novels published under the other pseudonyms, are being published under this name. Typical romance where each person has something they are not telling the other. Russ Ettinger didn't know the name of the delicate woman he found gasping for breath by the side of the road,or why she'd disappeared while she was fetching his car. Following graduate school, I worked as a researcher with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald. What he does know is he must find her again somehow. He's the most stunning male model Leslie has ever seen.


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The Inspiring Life of Terry Fox, Canadian Athlete and Humanitarian
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Who is Terry Fox and what has he done? Information about Terry Fox's promising run and determination in cancer research, his inspiring life.
Terry Fox was born on July 28, 1958 in Manitoba Winnipeg. His family moved to Surrey, British Columbia in 1966, then settled in Port Coquitlam in 1968. His father mentions that Terry hates losing and has a personality that lasts until he succeeds.
He was an avid sportsman playing football, rugby and baseball, but his main passion was basketball. He became a regular player in the ninth grade, and a point guard in the tenth grade. In the 12th grade, he won the athlete of the year award in his high school.
On November 12, 1976, while Terry Fox was driving home in Port Coquitlam, he was distracted by the nearby bridge construction and crashed into the back of a pickup truck. There was pain in the right knee after the accident. By March 1977, the pain increased and he eventually went to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with a type of cancer that often started near the knees. He learned that his leg had to be amputated and would require chemotherapy treatment, and in light of recent medical advances, he had a 50 percent chance of survival. Terry Fox learned that if he had been two years ago his chances of survival would have been only 15 percent, and that the improvement in survival rates was the result of cancer research.
Battle for Life Despite Cancer
Terry Fox walked with an artificial leg three weeks after amputation. Sixteen months endured chemotherapy. He monitored the condition and deaths of other cancer patients at the Columbia Cancer Control Agency facility. Terry Fox felt that he owed his survival to medical advances and wanted to live his life in a way that encouraged others.
Prior to cancer surgery, Terry Fox was given an article about Dick Traum, the first amputee to complete the New York City Marathon. The article inspired him. He started a long training program by telling his family that he also planned to compete in the marathon. He finished in last place ten minutes behind his closest rival, but his effort was met with tears and applause by the other participants. After the marathon, he announced to his family that he was planning to run across Canada in hopes of increasing cancer awareness.
The marathon started on April 12, 1980. Terry Fox Atlantic Ocean Newfoundland, St. Near John's, he filled two large bottles with ocean water. After completing his journey in Victoria, British Columbia, he intended to keep one as a souvenir and pour the other into the Pacific Ocean.
The physical challenge of running marathons every day harmed Terry Fox's body. He often had knee pain. He developed cysts in his legs and experienced dizziness. Terry Fox denied calls for him to have regular medical check-ups and warnings that he would put his future health at risk.
The Painful End of the Marathon
Terry Fox realized he was tired before he started running towards the end of August. On September 1st, he had to stop for a short time after he had an intense bout of coughing and chest pains outside of Thunder Bay. After a few miles, he was taken to the hospital with shortness of breath. The next day, Terry Fox held a tearful press conference in which he announced that his cancer had returned and had spread to his lungs. He had to finish his run after 143 days and 5,373 kilometers.
In the following months, Terry Fox received multiple chemotherapy treatments. However, the disease continued to spread. As his condition deteriorated, Canadians hoped for a miracle and Pope II. John Paul sent a telegram saying he prayed for Terry Fox. He was re-admitted to the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster on June 19, 1981 for chest congestion and pneumonia. He fell into a coma and died at 4:35 am on June 28, 1981.
Terry Fox remains a prominent figure in Canadian folklore. His determination supports his run by connecting the nation with people from all walks of life, and his memory awakens pride in all regions of the country.
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Internal schisms are impairing Narendra Modi's foreign policy.
New Delhi: The success of a country's foreign policy is directly proportional to its internal strength, unity and coherence. Internal strength, unity and coherence are partly located in the natural characteristics of a nation and partly fostered by statesmanship. It is a classical theorem of people and leadership. Each is dependent on the other. But a failed leadership cannot promote internal strength, unity and coherence however well-endowed the natural assets of a country; and this deficit will ipso facto produce an infirm and failed foreign policy.
Dramatically weakened by social unrest, and the 1905 defeat to Japan serving as a psychological shock to Imperial Russia, it was in no position to successfully participate in the First World War, in whose midst it collapsed in disarray and revolution. In this denouement, the failed leadership of the last Tsar was self-evident. In the case of contemporaneous Hohenzollern Germany, the state was strong and the people united, these being the singular contributions of the Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck; but the leadership that succeeded him was disastrous. Germany endured one world war after another and withstood foreign occupation, but it was no longer possible for it to become a Great Power again when a long peace was established in Western Europe after 1945.
The people-leadership theorem was tested in the United States as well and it produced no different results. While the Vietnam War was not initiated by Richard Nixon, he having inherited the conflict from his predecessor, Lyndon Baines Johnson, he faced its worst effects nevertheless. The Peace Movement virtually nullified Nixon's foreign policy, compelled the Congress to choke US defence spending, and indirectly resulted in massive expansion of the Soviet footprint across the globe. At its core, American strength remained unimpaired; the leadership failed. In not very different circumstances and perhaps in an even tougher climate, Ronald Reagan united America and gave coherence to its foreign policy. The Soviet collapse became unavoidable and indeed shocked everybody with its speed and irreversibility.
A. B. Vajpayee, one of the country's most reflective Prime Ministers, had some sensible observations to offer in the context of the second Gulf War. American intervention had occurred although its disastrous outcome was still some years ahead. Vajpayee used the Iraqi context to speak of internal unity and neighbourliness. In a peace message to Pakistan, he said disunity and tension invited foreign intervention. Vajpayee was clear what that meant for India: Its plural society had to be preserved at all costs. Pakistan took his message lightly. Not only did it spurn peace with India and wage terrorism, it looked the other way as sectarian groups indulged in wanton killings within Pakistan. Never very mindful of its sovereignty, Pakistan became a playfield for assorted Great and regional powers to pursue their dubious interests. The result is that Pakistan is no longer in control of its territory.
This short tour of history should give pause to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to evaluate the country's internal strength, unity and coherence. To this writer's mind, these have been damaged. The minorities feel threatened with the anti-cow slaughter vigilantism: Two men have been killed by mobs so far. The Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh says he will hang cow-slaughterers: When has cow slaughter, although illegal in some states, become a capital crime? The Rajasthan government has imposed a tax to save cows: It is so crude that it dishonours the purpose. In Bengal, the BJP opposition is encouraging public processions with weapons, which is downright illegal. In Hyderabad, a BJP legislator threatens to behead those opposed to a Ram temple in Ayodhya. And the urbane Tarun Vijay references South Indians in a lowly conversation on skin tone. Is the BJP serious about becoming a national party? Would schisms such as this strengthen the Prime Minister's foreign policy?
India has embarked on a contentious strategic course with China. The cause is just. But a disunited India would be at China's mercy. China will avenge the Dalai Lama card. Some joint naval action against pirates won't alter China's deep animus for this country. It makes good copy here but China has ignored it. The world has entered perilous waters. The Indo-Pacific region is primed for explosion. The US targeting of North Korea could lead to uncalculated Chinese actions against US partners, including India. India has to be on guard. The violence unleashed by sections claiming proximity to the Sangh Parivar must be put down with a firm hand. In no circumstances must a state permit vigilantism (including the anti-Romeo squads of Uttar Pradesh, which are scandalous). The state cannot secede from its obligations to uphold the law. Doing so would weaken the state. Its consequences should be amply manifest to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Internal turmoil is wrecking Indian foreign policy.
Editor's Note: The speed and secrecy of Kulbhushan Jadhav's death sentence by a Pakistan army court ties to Chinese pressure, with the aim to warn Baluch separatists who are impeding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Pakistani politicians have admitted there is no evidence of the charges of espionage and sabotage framed against Jadhav. India must most strenuously demand his safe return. This is a test of Prime Minister Modi's foreign policy resolve.


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The Baker Institute celebrates 15 years
Nearly 600 people turned out Thursday night to celebrate the 15th birthday of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at a black-tie gala featuring Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Rice congratulated the institute on its growth and success since its 1993 founding. She said that the work of the institute is crucial if public policy is going to address the important issues the United States will face going forward. In particular, she singled out immigration reform and education.
The theme of the gala was "Forward Thinking in a Changing World," and for the institute"s namesake, James A. Baker, III, the night was a chance to look ahead.
"Today, the Baker Institute enjoys a national and international reputation for excellence," said Baker, the 61st secretary of state and the 67th secretary of the treasury. "And it stands poised to deepen and broaden its research agenda on the most pressing domestic and foreign issues of our era."
Edward Djerejian, the institute"s founding director and a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Syria, thanked the audience for its support and generosity.
"The institute has been fortunate to have so many public-spirited and generous friends, and we have enormous appreciation for their support," he said. "I am very happy that many of our friends are with us tonight. Without your confidence, the past 15 years would not have been possible."
Watch a video from the 15th Anniversary Gala that includes remarks from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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