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...Trouble with Putinomics It's difficult to get an accurate picture of the economic disruption in Russia, where reliable information and open public discussion remain rare. This is the other side of Putinomics: TV and many major press outlets are firmly under state control, and media outlets that aren't have become nervous about printing the truth. As a result, the very word crisis is only now starting to enter the official vocabulary, and even then in a relatively muted...
...debts - including Oleg Deripaska, a metals tycoon who until recently was Russia's richest man. It is also playing an increasingly intrusive role in the private sector. At a meeting in Moscow on Nov. 25, for example, Igor Shuvalov, Putin's First Deputy Prime Minister, told the nation's major retailers that the Kremlin would ensure they gained access to credit on condition that they demonstrated "social responsibility" by not raising prices...
...agree that public schools are in dire need of intervention and that one solution is to improve the quality of teachers. But you miss a major roadblock: parents. Even the most gifted teachers cannot inspire students whose parents do not instill in them the importance of education. Parents need to take responsibility by reading to children when they are very young, turning off the television and video games when they are older, making sure they are completing their homework and demanding that they respect not only their teachers but the concept of education as well. Cara A. Tonn, ROSEVILLE, MICH...
...coin as far as American culture and attitudes go. I don't think Bush ever took the opportunity in all his travels to see America or, for that matter, the rest of the world. He was never in touch. Thank you for your piece. It struck a major chord with me. Gregory S. McCoy, GUERNEVILLE, CALIF...
...summit earlier this year, a handful of member-states called for the suspension of Zimbabwe from the AU. Yet by the end of the summit, the AU had failed to pass any strong sanctions against Zimbabwe, and instead merely resolved that the country’s two major parties ought to come together and negotiate their differences. The AU has specifically stated that force should not be used in ousting Mugabe. While we admire this aspiration toward diplomacy, we believe that in this case the sentiment is ill-advised. Thousands of Zimbabweans continue to suffer and die at the hands...