Word: authoritarianism
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...about the frigid feelings between Moscow to Kiev lies beneath: retaliation for last year’s Orange Revolution, which was built on the premise to take the country away from the Kremlin’s spheres of influence. Former Soviet republic Belarus, on the other hand, has an authoritarian government keen on close relationships with Moscow and still enjoys cheap energy. Thus, gas from murky companies like Gazprom flows with political scents—and according to Putin’s desires...
Oddly, Russia will chair the Group of Eight this year, at a time when its president behaves like another authoritarian leader sitting on vast fossil fuel reserves—Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Furthering his “Bolivarian” revolution and profiting from his oily dollars, Chávez is buying military equipment from Spain and AK-47s (guess where from) for his growing “security forces.” As the Bush administration turns its eyes away from Latin America, Chávez buys influence in the region by aiding Caribbean economies...
...White House helped raise Chvez's profile when Washington was widely believed to have backed a failed coup in 2002 against the democratically elected revolutionary (a charge the Bush Administration denies). Since then, despite what critics call Chvez's penchant for authoritarian rule, his popularity has risen--not only in Latin America but also in some parts of U.S. cities like Boston and New York, where the Venezuelan government--owned company Citgo is providing low-income residents with cheap heating oil this winter. Chvez has surpassed his good friend Fidel Castro as the anti-U.S. idol...
...resign," Illarionov told Time on Saturday. "I was invited to take part in it to explain why the price hike, and everything else in our bilateral relations, are liberal economic policies. But the factors that led to this decision have nothing in common with liberal economic policies." The increasingly authoritarian style of Putin's leadership poses a dilemma for the West. European governments are anxious to purchase Russian natural gas and oil (roughly half of the European Union's gas supplies currently come from Russia), and the U.S. and Japan want to expand business there. So far, political unease hasn...
...influential liberal bloc in parliament and a serious contender to succeed Mubarak in the next election in 2011. To U.S. officials pushing democracy in the Middle East as well as to many Egyptians demanding change, Nour and his Al Ghad (Tomorrow) party offered a promising liberal, secular alternative to authoritarian Arab rulers and their Islamic fundamentalist opponents...