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Europe's Challenges In the wake of the Georgian weekend war this summer, and amid the usual bellicose speechifying by Russian leaders, finding common ground between Russia and Europe will not be easy. But it is important to make a start, because the risk of alienating Moscow is a real and dangerous one. And as Joe Joffe argues in the accompanying essay, when talking to Russia, Europe is stronger than its behavior would often suggest...
Russia has a European strategy, but Europe does not have one for Russia - unless you want to call "Let's not rile the Bear" a strategy. Nor is "Let's annoy him a little bit" the epitome of statecraft. The latest example is Georgia. In the wake of the Russian invasion this summer, the European Union froze talks about a new economic partnership. But on Nov. 14, that killer sanction was lifted after just 10 weeks when the E.U. and Russia embraced at a summit in Nice...
...does not take a Putinologist to figure out the three basics of Russian strategy: court Western Europe, intimidate Eastern Europe, and split both off from the U.S. "Divide and conquer" is a classic of Russian policy, and the courtship always centers on Germany, the strategic fulcrum of the continent...
...magazine - a best seller in Britain - appear on newsstands worldwide. And foreign versions of the program are next. In September, Australian broadcaster SBS aired the first of eight episodes of its own edition of Top Gear. A pilot of a U.S. version is already in the can, and a Russian series is set to air early next year. With a live arena show about to tour the globe, the aim is to "create the world's biggest motoring entertainment brand," says Wayne Garvie, director of content and production at BBC Worldwide, the broadcaster's commercial...
Most of Israel's older gang families are second-generation Mizrahi Jews whose parents were refugees from the Middle East and North Africa. Ya'acov was one of 11 brothers, the son of a milkman who fled Egypt. A second wave of gangsters appeared in the 1990s: Russian Jewish criminals who control the prostitution rackets, often smuggling Eastern European women into Israel across the Sinai desert, using Bedouin guides. "The Russians are smart - and very violent," says Amir. In a model of entrepreneurial cooperation, some Jewish and Arab gangs hook up to smuggle drugs, stolen cars and arms between...