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Oddly, the country's economic coherence of the past 15 years has gone hand in hand with political fractiousness. There have been 12 governments since 1991. And the nation still nurses deep wounds. Ethnic Russians make up about one-third of the population, many of them the families of people shipped in by the Soviets to tame its breakaway tendencies. Since independence, thousands of these Russians have passed an exam to become naturalized Estonians. But some 130,000, almost 10% of the population, haven...
...this generation is uninterested in ethnic rivalries. It's one of Estonia's characteristics that many of the top jobs in politics and business are held by people under 40, who are too young to have been tainted by the Soviet legacy. They are also the ones buying the new homes that are shooting up on the outskirts of Tallinn. Much of the building is being done on credit, leading bankers to worry about a bubble economy. "Some people think they have discovered the never-ending hockey stick," frets Erkki Raasuke, chief executive of Hansabank, Estonia's biggest...
Most notoriously, China has consistently used its place as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council to dilute resolutions aimed at pressuring the Sudanese government to stop the ethnic slaughter in Darfur. A Chinese state-owned company owns 40% of the oil concession in the south of Sudan, and there are reportedly 4,000 Chinese troops there protecting Beijing's oil interests. (By contrast, despite the noise that China made when one of its soldiers was killed by an Israeli air strike on a U.N. post in Lebanon last summer, there are only 1,400 Chinese troops serving...
...billion) to save the least among us and did not even garner a nod in your People Who Mattered profiles, but I get top honors for watching viral videos on YouTube and reading self-important diary entries on MySpace? I suppose the moral relativism that rationalizes genocide and ethnic cleansing around the world now includes something we could call footprint relativism-everyone impacts humankind differently, but all contributions are equal. In a year when you tried to recognize everyone as special, you made sure no one was. Patrick Pugh Wilmington, Delaware...
...billion) to save the least among us and did not even garner a nod in your People Who Mattered profiles, but I get top honors for watching viral videos on YouTube and reading self-important diary entries on MySpace? I suppose the moral relativism that rationalizes genocide and ethnic cleansing around the world now includes something we could call footprint relativism - everyone impacts humankind differently, but all contributions are equal. In a year when you tried to recognize everyone as special, you made sure no one was. Patrick Pugh Wilmington, Delaware...