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...would like Russia to endorse and enforce tougher action to combat the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea and to quit bullying democratic neighbors like Ukraine and Georgia. Russia would like the U.S. to recognize that it has its own sphere of influence in the "near abroad" - the territory of the old Soviet Union - and halt NATO's expansion to the east. More generally, Moscow would like some respect. "The Russians want to belong. They want to feel big," says Finland's Foreign Minister, Alexander Stubb, who has met with both Medvedev and Putin since Obama's Inauguration. "There...
GEOPOLITICS The Near Abroad Just as Russia won't help much on Iran, Obama will likely tell Medvedev and Putin that America's ties with Ukraine and Georgia are based on shared values - they're both democracies - and strategic interests, including the protection of vital oil and gas supply routes. To underscore that point, Biden plans to visit Kiev and Tbilisi shortly after the President's trip to Moscow. The Vice President's visit, says Blacker, will "demonstrate to the Russians that we have equities in the region." (See pictures of Joe Biden...
...Egyptian government, too, of claiming Sherbini's tragedy for its own purposes. The attention the government has given the case - called a "bloodbath" in the state-sponsored press - strikes many in Egypt as contrived, given Egypt's dismal track record in protecting its citizens both at home and abroad. Human-rights organizations and the local press point to abuses suffered by Egyptian migrant workers in the Persian Gulf states as the government seemingly turns a blind eye. "The government is also trying to hijack the campaign and trying to present itself as patriotic in defense of Egyptians abroad," says journalist...
...news that les français had kept their crown as the world's most troublesome tourists provoked a collective Gallic shriek. "The French Are the Worst Tourists on Earth," blared the website for Libération above a story on this year's survey. "Do French Tourists Abroad Do Their Country Honor?" radio-news station France Info asked as it invited listeners to debate the survey's findings online. (The consensus? Not really, though despite the poll's contention, forum posters concurred that few tourists of any nationality ever impress locals as model visitors...
...streets of Urumqi there are many different views of why racial violence exploded this week. Some support the official explanation that forces at home and abroad plotting to split the western region of Xinjiang from China encouraged minority Uighurs to riot. Others say that discrimination of the Muslim group has created a deep reservoir of anger that can be ignited with little provocation. Among the competing views, two facts seem abundantly clear: animosity between Hans and Uighurs in Xinjiang's capital city is unlikely to fade, and the threat of further violence is never far away. (Read a brief history...