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...Meanwhile, America’s strongest allies in Western Europe??particularly Germany—have been reluctant to criticize the post-Soviet oligarchy (or “managed democracy”) that supplies them with vital natural gas. This divide has persisted even in spite of a recent announcement by President Dmitri Medvedev that Russia would embark on a massive new spending and modernization scheme for its outdated military. Therefore, a new energy security policy—one that effectively minimizes the risk of overt dependency on Russia while investing in alternative and renewable technologies—should...
...course, given today’s universal economic problems, Western European countries will face both economic and political difficulties in sending money abroad. Even Europe??s strongest economy, Germany, is predicted to shrink by two to three percent this year, the worst performance since World War II. The recession has hit every country in Europe and has given rise to an upsurge in nationalist sentiments. Both the UK and Germany are due national elections in the next year or so, and leaders are astutely aware of the demands of their public. Nevertheless, politicians must do their utmost...
...surreal and vividly eroticized, simultaneously reminiscent of Kesey and Orwell. Through his eyes, Vilnius is “a dead city, and above it hangs a fog of submissive, disgusting fear.” It has become a landscape “where Russia’s expansionism and Europe??s spirit went to war,” and one that has anticlimatically subsided into an achromatic wasteland. To Vargalas, Vilnius is the worst kind of hell—an inferno devoid of flames and full instead of gray—made in the likeness...
...girl: sexy, preferably exotic, and with a name that makes you wince. Enter Valentina—daughter of the head of environmental protection in Ukraine—played by Natalya Rudakova. She and Martin predictably fall in love while stuck in the same car on a drive across Europe??a romance made laughable by Rudakova’s appalling acting. In her defense, her lines would be challenging for even the most talented of actors to deliver convincingly. In her first moment of seduction, adjusting Martin’s tie after a scuffle, Valentina delivers the line...
...solve the economic crisis, they agreed that they would work to stimulate their countries’ economies and stabilize financial markets. According to Rogoff, the statement put out by the G-20 after the meeting reflected both the United States’ desire to maintain open markets and Europe??s desire for more heavy-handed regulation. The G-20, established in 1999 and made up of 19 countries and the European Union, represents 90 percent of the world’s gross national product. The group will reassemble in London next April. —Staff writer Lauren...