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Russia
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Niall Green , WSWS
1 October 2009
AvtoVAZ, Russia’s largest car maker, announced last week that would axe more than one quarter of its total workforce—throwing 27,600 workers onto the unemployment lines or into early retirement. The week before, Aeroflot, Russia’s main international airline, announced that it plans to cut 2,215 staff over the... » read this article
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Chris Hedges , Truthdig
This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency. It marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it signals the last gasp of the American imperium. That’s over. It is not coming back. And what... » read this article
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Alex Lantier , WSWS
8 November 2008
The New York Times on Friday carried a front-page article headlined “Accounts Undercut Claims by Georgia on Russia War.” The article cited a report by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a multinational association of 56 member states whose monitors were in Georgia when... » read this article
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Stefan Steinberg , WSWS
Despite intense pressure from a number of Eastern European states, supported by Western European powers such as Great Britain and Sweden, the declaration issued by European Union (EU) foreign ministers meeting in emergency session in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss the conflict between Georgia and Russia refrained from any criticism... » read this article
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