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    The Russians Rethink Democracy

    As their standard of living goes from bad to worse and uncertainty about the future increases, the Russian people have soured on democracy. By a margin of 51% to 31% Russians say they now favor a strong leader, rather than a democratic form of government to solve their country’s problems. Only 17 months ago, as […]

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    1991 Pulse of Europe

    After fifty years of world war, cold war and communism, Europeans are in the process of resuming the twentieth century. The end of communism in the East and the immanent economic integration in the West have unleashed forces of nationalism and ethnicity contained for the last 45 years by the exigencies of the Cold War. […]