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• Seeking Reformers in Ukraine

  
  CIPE Development Blog — Authority: 128
  What makes a good reformer? In many countries, it seems, populist promises are enough. Lay out an agenda, criticize your opponents, make enough TV appearances – what else a politician needs? The problem with personality politics, however, is that it focuses too much on an individual and too little on concrete ...
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• Is Russia Finally Getting Serious About Iran?

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 136
  In recent weeks, Barack Obamas foreign policy has been  derided  by  critics  who say he has almost nothing to show for his first 10 months in office. But on one of his most important priorities--stopping Irans relentless march towards a nuclear weapon--he may be quietly reaping a critical diplomatic ...
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• First Woman High Representative of EU Appointed

  
  Vital Voices Blog — Authority: 428
  On Thursday, November 19th, 2009 the European Union chose the leaders who would represent the EU to the rest of the world. In a great feat for women, Baroness Cathy Ashton, a former UK Labour Party member in the House of Lords, was chosen as the European Union’s Foreign Minister and the Vice President of [...]
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• ART: YEREVAN GOES MODERN: $35 MILLION MUSEUM TO PROMOTE CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE CAUCASUS (eurasianet.org)

  
  GEORGIA & SOUTH CAUCASUS — Authority: 139
  Marianna Grigoryan and Anahit Hayrapetyan 11/13/09A EurasiaNet Photo StoryThey have built roads and hospitals; schools and factories. And now, with the recent opening of Yerevan’s $35 million Cafesjian Center for the Arts, members of Armenia’s deep-pocketed Diaspora has moved into modern art.The 1,100-square meter ...
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• Kyiv Conference: Highlights of Day 1

  
  CIPE Development Blog — Authority: 128
  Despite the H1N1 fears, the majority of those that registered for the conference were in Kyiv today. We were very glad to welcome about 70 people from 20 countries this morning. Today was quite exciting with three panels engaged in very lively discussions on lessons from successful and unsuccessful transition, ...
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• Today’s Ancient Warfare: Facts vs. Beliefs

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 482
  By Jeff Gates In unconventional warfare, manipulated beliefs are used to displace inconvenient facts. When waging war by way of deception, false beliefs are an oft-deployed weapon.  Recall Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda? Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories?Iraqi meetings in Prague ...
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• Countdown to Kyiv Conference

  
  CIPE Development Blog — Authority: 128
  Three more days till CIPE’s Kyiv conference marking 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall! While many around the world have commemorated the fall of the Wall this week by looking back at the economic and political developments during the transition, this conference will focus on the future of reform across the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Low Combat Readiness in the Russian Armed Forces Lowers Nuclear Threshold

  
  The Yankee Sailor — Authority: 140
  This week the Moscow daily Gazeta published extracts of a leaked defense ministry document describing the results of military training this year –providing a rare opportunity to know firsthand the actual battle readiness of the entire Russian armed forces. According to Russian military tradition, the military ...
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• Greatest Failures of Transitions

  
  CIPE Development Blog — Authority: 128
  We are continuing to reflect on the fall of the Berlin Wall – for previous posts, read here , here , and here . Next Question: What do you think have been the greatest failures of transitions? John Sullivan: Across the board, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe faced the challenges of building ...
  2 weeks ago

• Events

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 433
  November 16, 2009. U.S. Private and Non-U.S. Funding of Media Development, featuring: Anne Nelson, Author, Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development; Mary Myers, Author, Funding for Media Development by Major Donors Outside the United States. With comments by: Marjorie Rouse, Internews ...
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• Israel’s Role In Destabilizing Pakistan

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 482
  By Jeff Gates When waging war “by way of deception,” the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe. Thus the force-multiplier effect when staged crises are reinforced with pre-staged intelligence. ...
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• “Wind from the West” Brings a Storm to Russian Shipyards

  
  The Yankee Sailor — Authority: 140
  “The Wind is coming from the west up the Gulf of Finland.” Those who have read Alexander Pushkins Mednyi Sadnik (The Bronze Horseman) know that such winds bring with them long waves into the Gulf of Finland and powerful storms that flood St. Petersburg. In this case, the wind is a vessel, the French amphibious ...
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• Azerbaijan: bloggers’ sentences further proof of backsliding

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 433
  A Baku court today sentenced two opposition bloggers to prison in a case that has highlighted declining media freedoms and curbs on civil society in Azerbaijan. Emin Milli, 30, and Adnan Hajizada, 26, received sentences of two and two-and-a-half years, respectively.The verdict came on the same day as a round table ...
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• Kazakh activists’ prosecution politically-motivated

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 433
  The prosecution of leading Kazakh democracy and human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis is politically motivated, new reports suggest.Zhovtis, director of the Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy, was sentenced to four years in prison last month for accidentally ...
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• Russia’s human rights activists: harassed at home, honored abroad

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 433
  Moscow’s municipal authorities are refusing to renew the leases of two leading Russian human rights and democracy NGOs, a move being interpreted as “official retribution” for their role in recent anti-government protests. The move is a further reflection of the shrinking political space available to dissident ...
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• After the Wall: Lessons Learned and the Future of Reform

  
  CIPE Development Blog — Authority: 128
  Twenty years ago today the Berlin Wall was dismantled, providing the most visible and resonating image of the emergence of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Yesterday US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave the keynote address at the Atlantic Council’s gala dinner in Berlin commemorating the events ...
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• Dangerous Trajectories: Obamas Approach to Arms Control Misreads Russian Nuclear Strategy

  
  The Yankee Sailor — Authority: 140
  Russia still considers the United States its "principal adversary." Russia also relies on its nuclear weapons to compensate for its inferiority in conventional weapons relative to the U.S., NATO, and China. Russian political and military leaders are still captives of czarist and Soviet geopolitical thinking and ...
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• Destabilizing Baluchistan, Fracturing Pakistan

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 482
  A strong, stable, and powerful Pakistan, especially one that would be independent, is not looked at in good terms by the Pentagon and NATO for many reasons. Within an Orwellian framework, Pakistan and NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan are deliberately being destabilized while there is talk about stabilizing them. Many ...
  3 weeks ago

• Russia Accepts Pro-Western Candidate for Moldova’s Presidency

  
  The Yankee Sailor — Authority: 140
  Russia currently holds a greater degree of relevance and influence in Moldovan politics than at any time during the eight years of nominal communist rule (2001-2009) and indeed since 1991 in that country. Russia’s growing political role is a direct result of Moldova’s indecisive parliamentary elections held in ...
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• Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World War III Part 2 By Andrew Gavin Marshall

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 149
  Part 2 of this essay on “The Origins of World War III” analyzes the colour revolutions as being a key stratagem in imposing the US-led New World Order. The “colour revolution” or “soft” revolution strategy is a covert political tactic of expanding NATO and US influence to the borders of Russia and even ...
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