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Does Obama have the worst first-year ratings?

21:18 19/01/2010

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - Barack Obama finishes his first year as president on January 20. The results are not too bad, but not too brilliant, either.

Russian government calls for crackdown on alcohol
17:51 19/01/2010
MOSCOW. (Vlad Grinkevich, RIA Novosti economic commentator) - Last weekend marked 90 years since the notorious Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed banning the sale, manufacture, and transport of alcohol for consumption.
Yushchenko recognized as inadequate - five years too late
14:03 19/01/2010
The reaction of western countries to the first round of the presidential elections in Ukraine is a more interesting phenomenon than the elections themselves. Wishes and reality clash in the reports and editorials of Polish, British and U.S. newspapers.

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United Nations Security Council

UN Security Council ‘Tired, Out of Step’ – Amnesty International

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.

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy speaks during a joint press conference with European Commission President after a meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels on May 24, 2012

EU Wants Greece to Stay in Euro Zone - Rompuy

EU leaders want Greece to remain in the euro zone, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has said.

Following the December 2011 parliamentary election, Russia was hit by a wave of unprecedented street protest

Russia Faces Full-Scale Political Crisis – Report

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.

An assistant shows the block with a red button marked "reset" in English and "overload" in Russian that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting in Geneva on March 6, 2009

Russia May Toughen Foreign Policy to Boost Domestic Support – Report

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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