[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Claus Vistesen at Alpha Sources notes that the Italian economy has slipped back into recession. blogTO identifies ten secret things in Toronto. Centauri Dreams looks at gas giants with very unusual, even misaligned, orbits around their local suns. The Dragon's Gaze links to one study on the internal ...
Ukraine lawmakers approve EU pact, offer autonomy to rebel regions - Los Angeles Times
Ukraine lawmakers approve EU pact, offer autonomy to rebel regions Los Angeles Times Lawmakers in Ukraine endorsed an association agreement with the European Union on Tuesday, making a decisive turn in favor of closer relations with Western neighbors in spite of the 10-month-old conflict that shift ...
EBRD warns of erosion of post-Cold War "peace dividend"
(4-traders.com) LONDON (Reuters) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development warned on Thursday that the crisis with Russia and Ukraine could erode some of the "peace dividend" eastern Europe gained when the Cold War ended.... http://www.4-traders.com/news/EBRD-warns-of-erosion-of-post-Co ...
Свежести самарской культуры от 18 сентября 2014 года. Часть 2
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Strung Out: Chekhov’s Neurasthenics, Trauma, and Nineteenth Century Models of Nervous Shock
Anya Hamrick-Nevinglovskaya giving her Noontime Scholars Lecture. On September 9, 2014, Anya Hamrick-Nevinglovskaya, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative and world literature at the University of Illinois, gave the first REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture of the 2014-2015 academic year. Her talk, entitled ...
Estilistas que Influenciaram a historia da Moda no Mundo - Christian Dior
Nascido em Granville, Normady em Janeiro de 1905. O trabalho de Dior se iniciou realmete apos a segunda guerra mundial, quando em 1947 Dior teve a sorte de estar no lugar certo na hora certa e percebeu a necessidade da mulher se tornar feminina depois dos horrores e sofrimento com a Guerra. O Postwa ...
We Are NOT the Indispensable Nation!
Anti-Empire Report Ukraine and neo-Nazis By William Blum September 17, 2014 “ ICH” – Ever since serious protest broke out in Ukraine in February the Western mainstream media, particularly in the United States, has seriously downplayed the fact that the usual suspects – the US/European Union/NATO tri ...
Russia’s Economy’s in Trouble, but That Doesn’t Mean Russians Will Turn on Putin
Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. All contents © 2014 The Slate Group LLC. All rights reserved. Sep 17, 6:09 PM - DAVID WEIGEL - Weigel Here's Who Voted to Fund Syrian Rebels and Get This ISIS Conflict Really Cooking Sep 17 ...
Bank sees even sharper contraction for Ukraine and Russia ahead
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development says that conflict in eastern Ukraine will lead to an even sharper contraction its economy than first expected this year, with the decline in output set to continue into 2015, when Russia’s economy ...
Russia’s Gazprom to supply Egypt with liquified natural gas shipments
A few days ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that Ebola viral disease outbreak is moving too fast to be... There were news about proposals to allow granting the Egyptian citizenship against a sum of money that starts with US$... NBC News is ...
Russia and Egypt Reportedly Strike $3.5 Billion Arms Deal
A top Russian military official said Wednesday that the country had made a sizable preliminary arms deal with Egypt to sell $3.5 billion worth of weapons to the North African nation. Alexander Fomin, head of Russia’s Federal Service for Military ...
Billionaire Placed Under House Arrest in Russia
MOSCOW — The house arrest of a billionaire sent shock waves through the Russian stock market on Wednesday in a case that for its sheer size, if nothing else, was already drawing comparisons to the jailing of the oil tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky.
EBRD Sees Sharper Economic Contractions in Russia, Ukraine
LONDON—The conflict in eastern Ukraine will lead to an even sharper contraction in the troubled nation's economy that first expected this year, with the decline in output set to continue into 2015, when Russia's economy will also shrink, the European ...
