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...presides over the stability of squalor. Burnt cars and blown-out windows litter the outskirts of Tskhinvali, South Ossetia's largest town and self-styled capital. Kokoity's government received 10 billion rubles - $324 million at the current exchange rate - from Moscow to reverse the damage wrought by the five-day war. But residents have seen little evidence of any such spending. (See pictures of Russia's war with Georgia...
...voted in as the district’s new superintendent on April 7, his formal selection was contingent upon the establishment of a contract that would satisfy both Young and the school committee. Young is scheduled to begin his term on July 6, 2009, but will begin a five-day transition period before that date, during which he will be taking vacation time from his post at Newton. According to the contract, Young will be paid an annual beginning salary $215,000, an amount which will increase after each subsequent year of service. After one year, his salary will...
...limitations of both equipment and men became obvious during Russia's five-day war with Georgia last August. Despite Russia's superior firepower and its bigger army, its ground offensive was not the overwhelming success it should have been. Moscow's military arsenal lacked anything to match Georgia's Israeli-made spy drones, according to Paul Holtom, senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Indeed, Russian troops operated with no modern surveillance or night-vision equipment at all, according to Russian Duma hearings last October. Says Vadim Kozyulin, head of the conventional-arms program at the Center...
...last year before January's constitutional referendum, which gave Bolivia's majority indigenous more political power but had many worried that Santa Cruz and other resource-rich eastern provinces might try to secede from the poorer highlands, where the capital, La Paz, is located. Morales himself went on a five-day hunger strike last week to get Bolivia's Congress to pass an electoral law that gives the indigenous more legislative seats...
...member nations are reluctant to commit blood and treasure. During the 1990s, the Alliance began expanding, inducting nine new members from Eastern Europe's former Soviet territories and satellites that sought protection from Russian power. But that program seemed to hit a wall last August, when Georgia fought a five-day war against Russia for control of South Ossetia. Georgia, whose bid to join the Alliance had been strongly backed by the U.S., was viewed by many Western officials as having provoked a senseless fight that would have obliged NATO to get involved had Georgia been a full member. Last...