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...land a battalion, train for a couple of months with a host nation, leave and then come back six months later," said Jones. "We want a family of bases that can go from cold to warm to hot." Whatever the call, Eastern Europe is ready: Bulgaria's fractious parliament last month approved a proposal in principle to station U.S. troops on its soil. For poor countries only recently emerged from communist rule, the prospect of closer ties with Washington is a powerful enticement: "I have been waiting for the Americans since I was a child," says retired engineer Corneliu Ribu...
...Tbilisi, supporters of opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili, a U.S.educated lawyer, stormed the Georgian Parliament after weeks of demonstrations against blatantly rigged parliamentary elections. The next day President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned, and this month Saakashvili was elected President with over 90% of the vote. TIME's Paul Quinn-Judge caught up with him last week. the events of Nov. 22 seemed very organized. How long had you been planning your strategy? We'd been prepared for the past two years. It was obvious that Shevardnadze would go the oligarchic route of succession - the group around him would transfer power to someone...
United Russia did obtain 37.5% of the Party List vote, but that only elects half of Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma. When we take into account the full vote from Dec. 7, 2003, Party List and Single Seats vote, United Russia was four seats short of majority: 49.1% Furthermore, between Dec. 7 and Dec. 30 (the inaugural session of the new Duma), no less than 54 independents and deputies of other parties joined United Russia to give it precisely 300 seats. 300 out of 450, that’s two thirds, so United Russia alone...
...president—won the largest share of the vote of any electoral faction in the history of post-Soviet parliamentary politics, 37.5 percent. With the other solidly pro-Putin deputies added in, the ex-KGB officer has enough votes in Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, to alter the Russian Constitution, a scary prospect in a country still shaking off centuries of despotic rule. Putin could use this constitutional majority to give himself a third term, or to extend his power to rule by decree, or to do whatever the hell he wanted with...
...Finance Minister Singh points out that India's Parliament passed a new fiscal-responsibility act that directs the government to trim its expenditure each year so that by 2008 it will spend no more than it receives in revenues. "We're moving in the right direction," he says. Singh is also moving to fix the country's tax system, which suffers from loopholes and evasion. This year, the government plans to introduce a single, uniform value-added tax to replace India's jumble of state and local sales taxes; economists expect the new tax regime will widen the government...