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Russian Deputy Defense Minister Discusses With Pedersen Situation In Syria

Russia and the UN have discussed the strategy to create normal living conditions in Syria, writes SANA. Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin has met with UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen. “The two sides exchanged points of view on the situation in Syria within the framework of the …

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Cities and towns of eastern Ghouta | Iranians expand their influence purchasing real estate, and regime confiscates hundreds of properties by “provisional seizure” decision

SOHR sources from inside eastern Ghouta say that members of the branch “277”, known as “Military Security”, have seized hundreds of apartments, shops and farms again in several areas in eastern Ghouta, under the decision of “provisional seizure.”

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ISIS resurgrnce | Cells target SDF military patrol, east of Deir ez-Zor

SOHR sources say that gunmen, believed to be ISIS cells, targeted with machine guns a military patrol of the Syrian Democratic Forces in the village of Al-Zar in eastern rural Deir al-Zour, but no casualties have been reported so far. Yesterday, Syrian Observatory activists documented the death of an SDF …

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When the Appointed Overrules the Elected: an Overview of the Decline of Democracy within the European Union.

Towards the end of 2012, the Constitutional Court of Slovenia issued a decision in regard to a referendum meant to consult the population on the establishment of a so-called “bad bank”. The bad bank was to be a state-owned institution meant to take over bad loans made by private banks …

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Is the Decline of the West Inevitable?

Abstract: This essay was written as part of an examination for an MA course in International Relations and Organizations. The assignment came with two supporting articles, that of Andrew Moravcsik, (Europe: Rising Superpower in a Bipolar World) and that of Cynthia Roberts, (Polity Forum: Challengers or Stakeholders? BRICs and the …

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Was Imperialism the “Belle Epoque” of Globalization?

General Notions The imperialistic ideas of the 19th century might in many ways be interpreted as Universalist, from the notion of the civilizing mission of the white man to the “transplantation” of political systems to the colonized areas. But was imperialism truly globalizing and was the age of imperialism really …

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The Wilsonian Moment and Socialist Alternative. Influence Over Anti-Colonial Movements.

Historical background It is without a doubt that the attitude of the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, towards the First World War had global consequences, many of them unintended, according to his own words. His infamous Address to the Congress, made in January 1918, stirred up the hopes …

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Dnevnik: Nobody wants Bulgarian passports

SKOPJE The liberalization of the visa regime stopped the applications of Macedonian citizens for Bulgarian citizenship, the number of which assumed dangerous proportions, the Macedonian Dnevnik newspaper writes. Over the last days the announcements in media about mediation in acquiring Bulgarian citizenship are few and the number of people, who …

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Politică, media și cenzură în RM (Interviu cu Vitalie Călugăreanu)

Sursa: stelapopa.unimedia.md „Dacă jurnaliştii au ajuns să se teamă, de dragul slujbei, să anunţe, naşterea sau moartea unui poet român, „pentru a nu supăra pe nimeni”, e foarte grav” (Vitalie Călugăreanu). Intervievatul meu de astăzi se deosebește de restul colegilor săi de breaslă prin câteva caracteristici distincte: este unul dintre …

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Iran, Pakistan Agree on New Terms in Gas Deal

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran and Islamabad have agreed on a revised price formula and a new price review mechanism for Iranian gas that will be piped to Pakistan, a senior Iranian official said. The new formula and review mechanism update terms reached in 2006 during the long-running negotiations on the project …

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