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...most Western eyes, the political comeback of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych would seem to be a major setback for the celebrated Orange Revolution that brought President Viktor Yuschchenko to power in late 2004. It was the Russian-backed Yanukovych, leader of the eastern-leaning Party of the Regions (PR), who helped trigger the peaceful democratic uprising after initially winning a rigged Presidential election...
...didn't advertise at all, both events were total sellouts." Last month, the city hosted its biggest Pecha Kucha yet, with 1,500 aficionados greeting such creative luminaries as Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Tunisian-born designer Tom Dixon. "It's new, it's improvised and chaotic," says Viktor Oldiges, organizer of the recently launched Shanghai evenings. That certainly doesn't sound like any presentation we've sat through before. To find a Pecha Kucha Night near you, visit pecha-kucha.org...
...didn't advertise at all, both events were total sellouts." Last month, the city hosted its biggest Pecha Kucha yet, with 1,500 aficionados greeting such creative luminaries as Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Tunisian-born designer Tom Dixon. "It's new, it's improvised and chaotic," says Viktor Oldiges, organizer of the recently launched Shanghai evenings. That certainly doesn't sound like any presentation we've sat through before. To find a Pecha Kucha Night near you, visit pecha-kucha.org
...ethos will be: "If you have a lot of resources, and I need them, I may use my gun to take them." Moscow's heavy-handed interference in Ukraine's 2004 orange revolution hints at how easily discrepant views about the near abroad could flame up. The West viewed Viktor Yushchenko's victory as the triumph of people power over a malign Soviet-style government; Moscow saw an anti-Russian plot by the cia acting through democracy-promoting ngos. Should Ukraine go further by applying to join nato, Russia could apply crippling economic sanctions, including cutting off energy supplies...
...next sector ripe for state consolidation may be the pipeline business. According to official documents seen by Time, there are moves afoot within the Kremlin to create a huge oil and gas pipe-line monopoly based on an existing pipeline operator, Transneft. In February, Russian Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko submitted a report to Putin suggesting that Transneft acquire Russia's stake in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), a company partly owned by the governments of Kazakhstan and Oman, which operates a 1,500-km oil pipeline from western Kazakhstan to a marine terminal in the Russian Black...