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Shadings of difference have come to light between Medvedev and Putin. In 2003, Medvedev was less than gushing in his approval of the arrest of oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky. This was when Putin's hunting down of the post-communist business "oligarchs" was in full spate. Medvedev has also frequently railed against corruption in Russian public life. He has made a point of saying repeatedly that the country badly needs to protect newly emerging small businesses. His career is apparently devoid of any postings in the Federal Security Service (FSB, the successor to the KGB), whereas several Kremlin leaders, including...
...says. “We’re kind of Children of the Corn-y”—Krahel and his roommate moved from Adams House into the Dudley Co-op to recapture that large-family vibe. The quirky atmosphere, with vegan cooking, Communist kitsch decorations, and naked study breaks suit Krahel just fine. “It’s like a really big family. It’s very back-home to me,” he says. “It’s nice to be around other crazy people...
...State elections in India are usually decided on very different issues than national elections; the country is vast and in many ways fragmented. But with the ruling Congress Party suffering from a deadlock with its own Communist allies over a controversial nuclear deal with the U.S., the Gujarat vote will give Congress leaders a good idea of what popular support they still enjoy. If Congress does well - polls suggest that the election is too close to call - it would embolden the party to call a national poll early in 2008 to break the impasse with its coalition partners. If Congress...
...declining birth rates, Japan knows it must import workers if it is to remain the world's second-largest economy. And so the deluge of highly educated Chinese is challenging Japan to re-evaluate its attitude toward foreigners - particularly those who hail from what was once dismissed as a communist backwater but today is crucial to Japan's economic prospects. In 2004, trade between the two countries reached $205 billion, with China for the first time overtaking the U.S. as Japan's largest trading partner. With their bilingual skills and transnational degrees, Japan's new class of Chinese immigrants...
...poets like E. E. Cummings, Class of 1915, and T. S. Eliot, Class of 1909. It remains one of only two not-for-profit bookstores in the country. The Globe Corner Bookstore at 90 Mt. Auburn St. specializes in travel, while Revolution Books at 1156 Mass. Ave. sells primarily Communist literature. And Schoenhof’s Foreign Books, at 76 Mt. Auburn St. #A, founded in 1856, has the largest selection of foreign language books in the country, according to their Web site. Daniel Eastman, the store’s general director, said, “We import books from...