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io Free Europe and the National Endowment for Democracy. The same kind of determination has yet to be mustered in response to Stalin's imitators in Belarus and Central Asia, not to mention his star pupil in his old Kremlin stomping grounds. Article 7. EFTA00700306 The National Interest Why Russia R

toward the end of the last century and into this one, many people assumed that history moves in only one direction. The tide of freedom had lifted East Asia and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Indonesia. In an era of global trade and communications, the rest of the world surely would follow.

send them its intelligence." Protests After Belarus Bars Election Challengers. BBC World News (UK) (7/14, 3.28M) reports, "Protests have erupted in Belarus" after President Alexander Lukashenko's main rivals, Valery Tsepkalo and Viktor Babaryko, were barred from next month's presidential election. The

atin America, the Middle East, South Asia and Africa are bearing a growing share of the caseload, even as wealthier countries in Western Europe and East Asia enjoy a relative respite after having beaten back the worst effects through rigorously enforced lockdowns." The US, "which leads the world in new c

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ts over Japan and Taiwan. According to the article, using data analysis from artificial intelligence company Synthetaic, images of balloons crossing East Asia have been found, with suspicions that they are launched from China. The balloons are believed to be equipped for signals intelligence, capable of co

e Central Asian countries as full members, with Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Iran and Mongolia holding "observer" status. Today Turkey—along with Belarus and Sri Lanka—rates as a "dialogue partner." Certainly Russia and Central Asia are important markets for Turkish construction, food and tourism ind

Security and its Strategic Foresight Initiative. He previously served in the US State Department as a senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary for East Asia and the Pacific (1989- 1993), on the Secretary's Policy Planning staff (2004-2008) and on the National Intelligence Council Strategic Futures Group

w EFTA00585487 8 "guests" in Egypt's most famous prison, provides little encouragement for leaders like Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov or Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko to follow a similar path. As Stephen Walt noted, other authoritarian leaders may be learning the wrong lesson from

's leaders more than to see the United States dithering about whether Arab democracy is in American interests. The ripple effects are felt even in East Asia, where a former U.S. ambassador says he's heard that the North Koreans are telling the Chinese "if this is the best the Americans can do in Libya,