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Recipe for modernization

23:34 12/11/2009

President Dmitry Medvedev devoted the first and longest part of his address before the Federal Assembly to the long-term economic prospects. His main idea is that it is no longer possible to delay structural reforms; it is necessary to start the modernization and technological re-equipment of industry without further delay. Now it is a question of Russia's survival in the modern world.

Medvedev says Russia must rise higher on civilization ladder
19:47 12/11/2009
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Nikolai Troitsky) – President Dmitry Medvedev’s second state of the nation address sounded more like a report by a business leader at a large economic conference. Avoiding unnecessary pathos, he enumerated the basic problems in all spheres of life in Russia and possible ways to resolve them.
Fighting pirates is fighting phantoms
18:34 12/11/2009
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) - On November 12, 2008, the Russian frigate Neustrashimy and the British frigate Cumberland repelled a pirate attack against the Danish vessel Powerful. This was the first time the Russian navy had participated in navigation safety off the Somali coast. How have things changed since then, and how secure is shipping in these waters now?

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The United Nations Security Council is suffering a failure of leadership and looks "tired, out of step and increasingly unfit for purpose," the human rights organization Amnesty International said in a report issued on Thursday.

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Russia is facing a full-scale political crisis which may lead to a radical transformation of the country’s ruling system as a result of the growing rivalry between the government and opposition, a report issued by the Moscow-based Center for Strategic Research (TsSR) said.

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The Russian leadership may take a harder line on their foreign policies in a bid to improve their damaged popularity at home, a report prepared by the Center of Strategic Research (TsSR) said.

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