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...Still, nationalist elements in both countries are opposed to any kind of rapprochement. Deniz Baykal, leader of Turkey's Republican People's party, said he would prefer to see President Gul attend a match in Baku instead. Devlet Bahceli, leader of the Nationalist Action party, said it was a mistake to travel to Yerevan before Turkey and Armenia had solved their problems...
...from Ukraine, and in the past several years we have traveled extensively in Ukraine, Russia, and other former Soviet states. Most of these new nations are in effect banana republics, run by wealthy elites. They treat their Russian minorities very poorly. Russians in these countries feel abandoned by ardently nationalist politicians. They see no advantages in democracy - quite the opposite, in fact. In focusing on politics and the machinery of democracy, the West is forgetting about these people, which only fuels their humiliation and resentment. If a Russian leader should emerge who says he will save the Russian people...
...power their military expansion across Europe; during World War II, Germany was producing 125,000 bbl. of synthetic fuel a day at 25 plants. After the war, a South African entrepreneur called "Slip" Menell bought the South African rights to Fischer-Tropsch, and in 1950 the new white supremacist Nationalist Party government formed Sasol--an acronym for Suid-Afrikaanse Steenkool en Olie (South African Coal and Oil)--to produce gasoline from South Africa's vast coal deposits...
...allegation follows a protest on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, where a small minority of nationalist militants has agitated for greater autonomy from France for decades. On Aug. 30, a group of 50 or so activists occupied the luxury villa of comic actor and Sarkozy intimate Christian Clavier. The protest, which sought to highlight the "colonization" of the island by wealthy French mainlanders, was clearly also designed to embarrass Sarkozy by targeting his film star buddy's sumptuous vacation abode. Protesters stayed about 90 minutes, just long enough to help themselves to some of the cellar's best bottles...
...many, China is no longer the communist bogeyman that it once was for those living in the former British colony. "Hong Kongers are caught in the fervor of the Olympics," says Ma Ngok, a political analyst at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. "Even if they're not nationalist, they won't be inclined to be sympathetic toward Tibetans." Even Chan herself thinks self-determination for Tibetans is a "lost cause," but she intends to soldier on regardless...