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...only the IMF that needs to be persuaded that things are getting better. Russians go to the polls in December to elect a new parliament and, notwithstanding its reported budget surplus, the Kremlin looks to be suffering a political deficit. It got more bad news Thursday as a new political alliance between presidential aspirant and Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov and a grouping of regional governors announced it had invited ousted prime minister Yevgeny Primakov to head its list of candidates. "The Kremlin is very threatened by Luzhkov?s new bloc, particularly if ? as is expected ? Primakov agrees to lead them...
Neelan, a member of the Sri Lankan Parliament and Vice President of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), was known as a moderate peacemaker in the country's bloody 16-year-old ethnic war between the dominant Buddhist Sinhalese and the Hindu Tamil minority...
Western planners contemplating the reconstruction of Kosovo might want to look at Haiti. In 1994 Haitians were dancing in the streets after U.S. troops restored democracy. Not anymore. Political squabbling has led to government paralysis, and Haiti's PRESIDENT RENE PREVAL suspended Parliament in January and rules by decree. Although donor countries pledged more than $1 billion in aid, the latest U.N. report notes that $570 million still hasn't been handed over because Haiti lacks the ministerial staff to draft programs for using the money. The report points out that 4% of Haiti's population still owns...
...poured out in unprecedented six days of confrontations with authority, in which students dared challenge the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini. But the reformers? strong suit is not street battles; it?s elections. Next March, Iranians go to the polls to elect the 270 legislators of the Majlis, or parliament. There are no political parties, and candidates deemed disloyal to the revolution can be nixed by a conservative-controlled Council of Guardians, but even with these obstacles, they?ve produced setback after setback for the conservative clergy. Three years ago the conservative core in the Majlis was reduced from...
...Iranian society," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Second to Israel, Iran may still be the liveliest republican democracy in the Middle East." Even though the conservative Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini ? who controls the security forces, the broadcast media and the religious bodies that vet laws passed by parliament and candidates running for election ? is appointed for life by a closed group of clergy, he still depends to some extent on the illusion of popular consent. "Electoral defeats are deeply troubling to the conservatives," says Dowell. "And as veterans of a revolution that overthrew the autocratic shah, they are well...