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...talking publicly about revising their Russian investment strategies in the wake of the war with Georgia, and Russia watchers are sharply divided over whether there will be a medium- or long-term impact on economic ties with the West. BMW, for one, is proceeding apace with building its sales network there: by the end of this year, it aims to have a dealership in 47 Russian cities with populations of more than 300,000. One of the biggest corporate-investment programs, by Italy's Enel - which has spent about $6 billion on an effort to become a player in Russia...
...fighting in South Ossetia is filled with important messages for the West. Among them: Putin's central role, even after ceding the presidency to Dmitry Medvedev, and Russia's apparent attempt to bomb an oil pipeline to the West, one of several new alternatives to the Russian-controlled network. It was a warning shot, he and others argue, against those who would try to challenge Russia's dominance of oil and gas supplies to Europe...
...Indian human-rights organizations are now studying donations made to the suspect agencies. "Payment sustains the whole trafficking network," says Sujatha Mody, a lawyer who runs the Malarchi Women's Resource Centre. "Some people say, Why are they bothered about one child? But [payment for] one child sustains the whole philosophy of making children a commodity...
...without enlisting in the culture wars, he gains credibility as something new. That in turn might keep him from becoming mired in the trap of identity politics. Branding himself as the face of the future can neutralize the issue of inexperience. And if he can build his own political network strong enough to win a national election, he will lend credibility to his almost mystical belief in the power of organizing...
Twitter was, perhaps, inevitable. It's a Web 2.0 service that allows users to let their social network know exactly what they're doing (or feeling or thinking or eating) at every minute of every...