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...with trade of $76.3 billion last year, the E.U. is Russia's top partner. But this beauty is largely skin deep. The country's economy depends almost entirely on exporting raw materials, and its recent success owes more to higher oil prices than to market reform - which helps explain why its growth is slowing. Other businesses are propped up by price controls that amount to a $5 billion subsidy. And the whole system, according to a recent report, is lubricated by $33.5 billion a year in bribes. Russia is, after all, a developing economy, and the European Bank for Reconstruction...
...National Front could split the vote for the right, allowing the Socialists to capture parliament. That would saddle Chirac with another five years of cohabitation, during which he would be virtually powerless to influence the domestic issues on which he campaigned: security, sweeping tax reductions and business-friendly economic reform. To prevent that, Chirac's allies may be tempted to think the unthinkable: cut a deal with the far right. The National Front's potential of playing king-maker has come about due to the appeal of its anti-immigrant, fear-mongering messages in places like the Gard. Last month...
...boats and 7,000 fishing jobs; Italy could lose 3,000 boats, representing 18% of the commercial fleet. Fischler listed "dwindling fish stocks, diminishing catches, too many vessels chasing too few fish, steady job losses and a lack of effective control and sanctions" as the reasons for the reforms, adding: "You can't be a friend of the fishing industry without first being a friend of the fish." Overfishing is the primary cause of the near collapse of a range of species that have been culinary staples across Europe, including cod, haddock, mullet, herring, tuna and swordfish. Fish populations...
...Under extraordinary scrutiny from Congress, the White House and the public, the FBI is struggling to simultaneously introduce reform and hold its ground against potential terrorists. That determination is evident in the agency's new top priorities: protecting the United States from terrorist attack and against foreign intelligence operations and espionage. "The FBI can't act as traffic cop any longer," Mueller said, "we must develop the capability to anticipate and prevent future attacks." That capability depends on upgrades in many areas, including training staff to perform more incisive analyses, hiring agents with needed language skills, developing more sophisticated intelligence...
...Even Arafat's talk of reform, elections by year's end and a new cabinet within a week, has done nothing to ease the plight of ordinary Palestinians. For the residents of the West Bank, Arafat's new freedom of movement contrasts with the Israeli chokehold on their own daily lives, and ability to earn a living - and the blockade on many of those towns is tighter than ever. Half of the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza now lives below the poverty line, and even middle class residents of established West Bank towns are reduced to begging...