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177523
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I AM PREPARED to assert that there is no idea so wonderful that it cannot be brought to the point of absurdity, or even turned into its exact opposite. Worse yet, lots of wonderful ideas often just end up reaching an ignominious end.
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177528
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AT THE TURN of the 1990s, when the bipolar world order had fallen apart and the U.S. and the EU had launched their expansionist foreign policy, the West simultaneously formulated the "soft power" concept1 and reissued, so to speak, the philosophical idea of civil society.2 It was a new form of substantiating democracy designed to apply Western patterns in post-socialist societies through nongovernment organizations (NGOs) as agents at the middle and low levels.
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177538
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STUDIES of various aspects of mass communication have lately become one of the most common fields of scholarly research in humanities. Researchers have been taking up subjects such as information revolutions, information wars, the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in international affairs, digital diplomacy, and transnational communication networks. However, any of these forms exists in a specific context, is governed by specific norms and rules, and may be institutionalized and legitimized by a specific government agency and/or international organization. We may sum up by saying that they all are regulated by specific communication orders and regimes and influence those orders and regimes.
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177530
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177541
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INTERNATIONAL PROTESTS against burning forests and indiscriminate tree felling in the Amazon revived the risk of political pressure, boycott of goods and economic sanctions imposed by great powers on the culpable states that do not pay enough attention to ecological problems. This might threaten their sovereignty: the world has increased its attention to the Brazilian Amazon and put forward unprecedented political demands. While fires were spreading across the Amazon rainforest. President of France Emmanuel Macron said at the G7 summit held in France in August 2019 that "the Amazon should be given an international status." France has not yet moved in this direction, yet its president did not exclude a possibility that this idea would become part of the international agenda: "We should predate our actions by legal and political efforts. This is an open subject that will develop in the next months and years."1
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177527
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ON OCTOBER 10, 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) marked its 75th anniversary. This specialized structure of the UN with a global mandate in food, agriculture, fisheries and development of rural areas predated the "big UN" (which celebrated its jubilee on October 24) by a week.
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177532
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FRIENDLY RELATIONS between Laos and Russia have existed since the Soviet days. They are based on friendship, mutual understanding, trust, and the readiness to help each other. Geographic remoteness; cultural and linguistic differences; differences in customs, as well as the major political changes that have taken place in our countries, the region and the world, do not impede the development of our traditionally friendly ties. On the contrary, our friendship has not only survived the durability test, but has grown stronger, gaining a new impetus for its steady, productive development. Our countries established diplomatic relations on October 7, 1960. This year will mark the 60th anniversary of this notable event.
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177529
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THE COLONIAL EPOCH not only shaped history, geography, the system of international relations but also and to a great extent, distribution of cultural valuables on the planet. In its colonial rage, Western Europe was capturing territories across the world which explains why the treasure troves of the biggest European museums look very impressive at the expense of cultural valuables brought from other continents.
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177531
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A CENTURY is a very long period not only for one person but even with regard to relations between Mongolia and Russia. During the past century, a lot has changed in Mongolia, Russia, and the world as a whole. Life goes on, with economic upturns followed by crises, technical innovations changing our way of life, and care about the future generation and the country taking up all the time. Our peaceful life today did not come easily, and amid our everyday problems, we must remember our heroes of the past, especially now, 75 years after the end of World War II.
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177525
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IN 2020, Germany - currently the leading European member of NATO - celebrated 30 years since the completion of the unification process of the FRG [Federal Republic of Germany] and the GDR [German Democratic Republic]. A year prior marked 70 years since the creation of NATO itself. On the eve of that anniversary, James Mattis, then American Secretary of Defense, speaking at a meeting of defense heads of this bloc in Brussels, called it "the most successful military alliance in modern world history" [1].
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177539
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THE WORLD has changed in the blink of an eye in 2020 after being struck by a new virus that triggered a pandemic, put people all over the planet under enormous stress and confronted many countries with social and economic problems needing urgent solution. One way or another, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected practically everyone in the world. There have been prompt large-scale suspensions of business in many economic sectors, including manufacturing, tourism, air transportation, hospitality, and entertainment. Other sectors have been adapting to the new reality. The latter sectors include education - the pandemic has affected more than two billion learners in 192 countries [12] and has forced schools and universities to go over to distance learning.
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177536
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ALL TROUBLE in society stems from failure to reach agreement. Social contract theory, which is the basis of law (and has been somewhat oversimplified since it was first propounded), sees primitive society as what Thomas Hobbes describes as bellum omnium contra omnes (the war of all against all).1 This made people realize the need for an arrangement where one needed to limit their own freedom in respecting the life and freedom of others. That realization gave birth to law.
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177540
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THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT of the nuclear industry in the 20th century, the widespread use of radioactive isotopes in medicine and in military programs, the usage of nuclear submarines, as well as the operation of radiochemical plants, factories, nuclear power plants, and scientific research centers all around the world are accompanied by a constant accumulation of radioactive waste (RW) and spent nuclear fuel (SF). Mishandling of RW and SF could possibly inflict significant damage on the whole planet, not merely a single nation. Thus, the question of placing RW and SF in storage is the main component of an environmental issue shared by the whole planet due to the use of nuclear energy.
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177535
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A STUDY of the cultural policy of a country should involve studying the connection of the cultural life of that country with the political strategy of its government. Undoubtedly, the political course of a country is seriously affected by sociocultural factors that have evolved historically.
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177526
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REGARDLESS of where it moves to from now on, the COVID-19 pandemic has clearly had an unprecedented impact on the world economy. There have been various epidemics in the past that evolved into pandemics, but the current coronavirus pandemic is the first one to be handled by the international community in such a coordinated way. Many countries have been taking preventive measures, e.g., travel restrictions and suspension of industrial facilities, but those measures have caused serious economic underperformance.
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177544
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Historically, Russia and the West (countries of Western Europe, but now also of Central Europe) are connected by a relationship based on a long-running and complex dichotomy. The great classic novel War and Peace initially exudes a sense of admiration that high society in the Russian empire had for all things foreign (Western), including the ubiquitous use of French in small talk, but in the end, there was the Patriotic War with Napoleon, the largest war in the 19th century. Russia (later the USSR) instinctively tried to catch up with the West, to overtake it in some respects, and to participate in its affairs, and vice versa, but Russia almost always was either at war with it or joined its coalitions. It so happens that over the past 200 years, the most horrible and devastating wars have come from the West. In the Soviet days, the West was anathematized at the official level, while there was nothing cooler for members of the younger generation than to wear American blue jeans, own a U.S.-made portable audio system, listen to American music, and smoke American
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177542
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IN FEBRUARY 1828, Emperor Nicholas I (1825-1855) signed the draft law Institution for Administering the Bessarabian Region that discontinued the experiment with the autonomy for the Pruth-Dniester interfluve. The "rights and freedoms" that Alexander I (1801-1825), his predecessor on the Russian throne, had granted to the local elite were replaced with the status of a province within the newly formed Novorossiyan-Bessarabian Governorship General, a new administrative unit in the South of Russia.
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177522
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177543
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SWEDEN is a small and, in many respects, unique country with a specific historical experience. Indeed, it managed to remain outside the mess of World War II (WWII) and the Cold War. Two very different monographs* reviewed here offer new approaches to the specifics of Stockholm's foreign policy and practical realization of its neutrality during WWII and the protracted Cold War that followed it. These works have acquired special value and special importance in the light of the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. May 9 is an axiological and meaningful date, the U-turn and the fundamental foundation of national awareness amply confirmed by contemporary Sweden.
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177533
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