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...soft loan to its SCO allies, including Russia, which has been hit particularly hard by the fallout of the world's financial crisis. Few will raise thornier questions of political reform. After all, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, can hardly hold the moral high ground and chide Ahmadinejad for jury-rigging the democratic process. (Watch a video on a Russian road trip...
...fabrication of Serb politicians. Washington is less certain. The U.S. State Department's Country Reports on Terrorism 2008, released on April 30, says competing intelligence agencies in Bosnia are failing to share information. As a result, the report states, Bosnia is "vulnerable to exploitation as a potential staging ground for terrorist operations in Europe...
...Horseback odyssey takes place Aug. 10-24 and is designed for the more experienced horseback rider. It includes visits with nomadic families and with Tsaatans - members of the Turkic-speaking Tuvinian ethnic group known as Dukha, who herd reindeer. Rates start at $3,415, including meals, guides, horses and ground transportation...
...sign of Bibi's Obama-ization. "It was a brilliant speech, but Netanyahu surrendered to American pressure. We will act with all our power against a Palestinian state," said Dany Danon, a Likud party leader. The hard-line Prime Minister didn't seem eager to deny his common ground with Obama. "I share the President of the U.S.A.'s desire to bring about a new era of reconciliation in our region," Netanyahu said...
...Islamist threat has often worked in favor of the region's governments. After 9/11, U.S. Central Asian strategy was dictated largely by the Department of Defense under Donald Rumsfeld. Uzbekistan, ruled its entire independent life by the iron-fisted Islam Karimov, was brought into the fold as a staging ground for American operations in Afghanistan, as well as a willing accomplice in the renditions of suspected terrorists. That cozy partnership ended in 2005 when the Uzbek army gunned down hundreds of civilians protesting for reform in the Ferghana Valley under the pretense that it was curbing an Islamist revolt...