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The narrow cabal of four KGB officers that controls Russia under Vladimir Putin has a brutally Manichean view of power. They do not believe in mutually beneficial negotiations, but only in the effective wielding of control. Thus they are a dangerous factor in the international community since any success for the West, by definition, must imply a loss for Russia. Even worse, Putin has a grievance against the current world order: he explicitly laments the fall of the USSR and intends to reconstruct the old power relationships whether using the power of Russian resources and money or- as in Georgia and Moldova- using Russian military power. Having acquired power by underhand means- planting bombs that killed 300 people- it was always clear how ruthless the Putin clique was. Yet, in the end this very ruthlessness was part of his... [read full story]
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Prague, Nov 24 (CTK) - Czech health care will lack billions of crowns in 2011 unless a health reform is introduced, Pavel Horak, head of the VZP major health insurance company, told yesterday's daily Hospodarske noviny. Without...
ČTK The developer company ECM's loss may reach EUR 26.39 million (CZK 684 million) for January-September, compared to EUR 21.8 million (CZK 563 million) a year earlier, according to a survey among analysts by ČTK.
