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Bad news from Latvia raises fears of contagion across eastern Europe
From Economist.com

The patient emerges from intensive care, hurls the medicine at the doctors and bites his blood donor. That may be an unfair characterisation of the recent news from crisis-stricken Latvia, but it is pretty much how outsiders see it. The prime minister, Valdis Dombrovskis, is refusing to make the spending cuts mandated by international lenders and has floated a new law that would partially expropriate foreign banks’ loan books.

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The reverberations of Soviet totalitarianism in Finland: Sympathies and contradictions (II) (1)
Translated from Imbi Paju’s article in “Maailma Vaade” (View of the World).

This year 70 years have passed since the signing of the ...
 
How to Liberate an Economy
Entrepreneurs understand the importance of freedom in the workplace

Guy Sorman, TCS Daily

Brian Carney and Isaac Getz's Freedom, Inc. is a ...
 
Lessons from Estonia: Protecting the West from a computer attack
Väino Reinart, National Post, October 22, 2009

The cyber attacks carried out against Estonia in the spring of 2007 served as a wake-up call about ...
 
Opening statement by Mark Carney Governor of the Bank of Canada Press conference following the release of the Monetary Policy Report 22 October 2009
Good morning. Paul and I are pleased to be here with you today to discuss the October Monetary Policy Report, which we published this morning.

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It is high time to abolish the concept of ethnic minorities
Europe.view column, Oct 22nd 2009, from Economist.com

Should the Polish ethnic ...
 
Moscow Patriarchate’s efforts to subordinate ‘alternative Orthodox’ undercut Russia’s future, Regelson says (2)
VIENNA, October 22 – The Moscow Patriarchate’s drive to subordinate all independent Orthodox bishops and believers to its own power vertical, an ...
 

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