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...year for Spanish art," says Maria Porto, director of the Madrid branch of Marlborough, a London-based gallery. The fair was launched in 1982 by a small group of artists and curators eager to make the international connections that were denied them under the previous 40 years of authoritarian rule. Since then, ARCO has also emerged as an intellectual forum. This year, visitors can sit in on discussion panels featuring 200 artists, collectors, academics, curators and gallery owners. So wear comfortable shoes - there's a whole world of art to see. Daily admission fees range from...
...President George W. Bush was likely including North Koreans when, in last Thursday's inaugural address, he vowed: "When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you." Some residents of the authoritarian state may not need much encouragement: earlier in the week, a Seoul-based human-rights group released an anti-regime video that it says was produced by dissidents in the North. Following some jerky shots of a market, a high school and a factory, the camera pans across a poster that declares: "Down with Kim Jong Il!" in Korean characters scrawled in red ink. "People...
...diplomacy,” and lamented that the White House seemed untroubled by these concerns. The report warned that Washington’s “messages should seek to reduce, not increase, perceptions of arrogance, opportunism and double standards.” It is these perceptions that help authoritarian regimes that deflect criticism of their rule by demonizing the Satanic West...
...That sort of doom-laden analysis is an extreme minority view - but the fact that it is being aired at all is remarkable. The Russian political system is authoritarian and secretive, but there's no sign that Putin's supporters are preparing to abandon him. In the past, Putin has shown himself ruthless in imposing his authority - as Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Yukos founder who tried to challenge Putin's power by funding rival political parties, discovered to his cost. Khodorkovsky has been in prison since October 2003, charged with offenses, which he denies, including tax evasion, embezzlement and theft...
...Rosneft, bought its main oil producing unit, Yuganskneftegaz, for a knockdown price, "demonstrated the state's unwillingness to guarantee private property." And Yushchenko's victory in Ukraine showed that Russia wanted to pursue "an imperialist foreign policy but couldn't even achieve that." Shevtsova believes Putin is building an authoritarian system that "contains not only colossal menace for Russian society, but could escape from the control of those who created...