“This is a very dangerous attitude to think that any politician is too high up to be involved in the basis of parliamentary democracy. I think we all have to start with at least a sense of humility” – Aung San Suu Kyi in defence of her decision to contest said that it is in [...]
Two years ago, on February 25, Viktor Yanukovych was inaugurated as the fourth president of Ukraine, as the nation of 46 million was struggling with both authoritarian and, many believe, colonial legacies. Earlier that month, he had narrowly won the second round of the elections, 49 to 46 percent, against the incumbent prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko. In real figures, however, he got almost half a million [...]
When Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez spent a long absence from his country in Cuba earlier last year, opponents and sympathizers alike wondered about his future as his nation’s undisputed commander in chief. But mounting speculations about the exact nature and implications of his ailment proliferated. Later, it began to circulate that Chávez was suffering from [...]
A good six months before the actual presidential election, it was virtually certain that Vladimir Putin would return to the presidency. Such is the strange “democracy” of Russia. The announcement was followed by Putin’s call to create a Eurasian Union. The plan, unveiled in a newspaper article on October 4, is to achieve EU-style economic [...]
The Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, the clear front-runner in the upcoming presidential elections, has been presenting his electoral agenda in the press and in public speeches in recent weeks. He offered a vision of the state analogous to the model seen in his second term in office as president: a strong government, state domination [...]
On Tuesday night, January 24th, 2012, President Barak Obama delivered his final ‘State of the Union’ address, before the November’s presidential election. He used the speech as a platform for his re-election bid. At the beginning and in the end of his address to the Congress, President Obama spoke about the US army as an [...]
The Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has committed himself to cut the Spain’s budget deficit to 4.4% of GDP in 2012 and further down to 3% of GDP in 2013. However, it seems that the target will not be achieved. Mr Rojoy’s government has already announced over a 15 billion euro emergency programme of [...]
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