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...last stop of a five-day, four-country trip that also included visits to Russia, Latvia and the Netherlands, Georgia provided the most lively illustration of the main narrative of Bush's trip: tying the democratic movements in the former Soviet republics to his vision for democracy in the Middle East and around the world...
Prepping the ER is a simple business; there is not much to get ready. Apart from their stethoscopes, the only diagnostic tool available to the surgeons is a Soviet-era X-ray machine. Ultrasound equipment? No. CT scans? No. MRI? No. There are two thoracic surgeons for chest wounds, the most common kind of injury in bomb blasts, but the hospital lacks the equipment needed to perform actual surgery. Pleas for funds and tools have been ignored by an Iraqi health ministry that doctors say is underfunded, mismanaged and corrupt. "There are days when we don't even have enough...
...party too. Bird and Sherwin conclude, with an air of mystery, “we do not, and we cannot, know the extent of his commitment” to the Communist Party, except that it was short-lived. Stalin’s purges clearly left him disillusioned with the Soviet experiment...
...London, pop stars and celebrities will perform in a concert for 15,000 people in Trafalgar Square. Berlin will host the "Day for Democracy" celebration, a series of speeches and concerts, around the Brandenburg Gate. In Russia, the victory over fascism was the high-water mark of Soviet achievement. But that triumph came at the loss of well over 20 million lives, largely because Stalin's purges had destroyed the Red Army's officer class before the war started. Until June 1941, Germany and Soviet Russia were allies, and Moscow had seized the Baltic states as part of a carve...
...fact, Shleifer speculates that the magnitude of Russia’s post-Communist economic collapse has been greatly overstated because official Soviet statistics were quite inflated. Shleifer further argues that Russia’s woes closely resemble those of middle-income countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia, and Mexico, which all have per capita GDPs that hover around Russia’s of $8,000. Hardly exceptional, the economic problems that addle Russia—from capital flight to debt defaults—are standard fare for these middle income countries...