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...deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a gas pipeline linking the two countries, Schröder earlier this month stepped into the role of project chairman. Set to start piping gas into Europe in 2010, the $5-billion North European Gas Pipeline is controlled by Gazprom, Russia's state-run natural gas supplier. Schröder appears not to have broken any rules - there are none governing the conduct of former Chancellors - but his close relationship with Putin triggered charges of cronyism from German politicians, as well as claims that he's sold his country out. "Gazprom is Putin...
...back Lin Yudui, the public disciplining of a top police commander-unheard-of in previous confrontations between police and protestors-suggests that China?s authorities have realized that in an era of high-speed communication, killings in a remote village can?t be swept under the rug. Still, the state-run media has published only official accounts of the tragedy, and multiple roadblocks near Dongzhou ensure that journalists don?t investigate too closely. China?s future may depend on which aspect of the Dongzhou tragedy dominates its political system: Brute force by local police, or increasing accountability from higher-level...
...Batska's authority does not rest on a monolithic party but on a personal ideology, such as it is, based on his own proclamations. A sample: "Private property has the right to exist, but it must be under the state's control." Lukashenko has decreed his views must be taught at schools and universities, and ordered every company, state-run or private, to name a director for ideology who functions as the regime's political commissar. "The President," says a senior Western diplomat, "controls all levers of power in government as well as in society...
...event was so hastily arranged that nobody checked identification cards or invitations on the way in. As a vice-governor called the meeting to order, hotel employees were still adding chairs for those standing in the aisles. Attendees, who included county and city officials and executives from large state-run enterprises, had already been briefed and knew of pollutants in the river...
...explosion upstream had occurred at the Jilin Petrochemical Company, which is owned by the state-run China National Petroleum Corporation. It has not been revealed what contaminants might have entered the Songhua River. According to Chinese media reports, the plant produced aniline, which is used to make dye, fungicide and shoe polish. The Illinois-based National Safety Council considers it an "extremely hazardous substance." In small doses it causes lethargy, while larger doses can cause coma...