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...sides are still unhappy. Putin has portrayed Ukraine as a flaky transit country, while Ukrainians say Russia is simply a bully. Over the next few weeks, Moscow and Kiev still have to agree on a price for Russian gas deliveries, subsidized since Soviet times. And even if that happens, there's no guarantee this same dispute will not flare up again in the coming months, as it regularly has over the past few years...
...Europe depends on Russia for about a quarter of its total gas supplies. Some 80% of these are pumped via Ukraine, which also counts on hefty transit fees. The E.U. sees this latest episode as further proof that it needs to diversify its energy, something that it must do anyway if it is to meet its ambitious climate-change targets...
...violence, Odinga and Kibaki created a coalition government, leaving Kenyans to wonder what they had been fighting for. On Monday, the Kenyan Red Cross said it was still feeding 250,000 people and that at least 100,000 were still living in refugee camps, now euphemistically called "transit camps." That does not include the thousands who still live with relatives and friends...
...program so that audiences could experience the piece without interference. Dorsky clearly intended the viewing experience to be completely undisturbed. “Sarabande,” the first film shown, was a montage of clipped, obscured, and often beautiful passages ranging in focus from anonymous people in transit to flowers and vegetation. More frequently than not, it was unclear exactly what the objects were—whether because the shot was too tight, too dark, or simply with too foreign a subject—leaving the viewer with little more than free-associative and mnemonic inference. But this...
...during a Dec. 6 confrontation, protesters rioted in the Greek capital for nearly a week, battling law enforcement, setting cars ablaze and torching the city's Christmas tree (above). Fueled by frustration over unemployment and official corruption, thousands of Greeks smashed storefront windows and cars as union and transit workers staged a national strike. "It's very simple: we want the government to fall," a member of the Socialist Workers Party said on Dec. 9 as 10,000 people marched on Parliament...