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same hymnal, and most influential outlets reflected a variety of opinions about government policies, including the Kremlin's conduct of the war in Chechnya. Putin moved quickly to change these conditions. He reorganized and exerted tighter political con- trol over state-owned television stations, broug
National League for Democracy (NLD), a remarkable turnaround in a country that until recently ranked among the world's most repressive. Voters in Sri Lanka ousted their increasingly author- itarian and divisive president Mahinda Rajapaksa, in favor of Maithripala Sirisena. Upon taking office, Sirisena
t organization with unseen but munificent benefactors, probably in Saudi Arabia. They have long acted as recruitment networks for causes in Bosnia, Chechnya, and Afghanistan during the Soviet war (1979-89). Today they have ties to the Sunni insurgents in Iraq, who in turn have ties to Iraqi refugees in
Their development is a complex project, and the missiles' only public manifestation was a single test that the Israelis conducted off the coast of Sri Lanka. The submarines are the military response to the threat in a region "where there is no mercy for the weak," Defense Minister Ehud Barak says. They
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er National League for Democracy (NLD), a remarkable turnaround in a country that until recently ranked among the world’s most repressive. Voters in Sri Lanka ousted their increasingly author- itarian and divisive president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, in favor of Maithripala Sirisena. Upon taking office, Sirisena
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