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Reuters Magazine: The Elephants in the Davos Ski Lodge (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? The epic global shifts of 2011 transformed the political, economic, and social landscape from Shanghai to Sao Paolo, Washington to Cairo. No leader (not even Vladimir Putin) is safe from the vagaries of social unrest; no economy (not even China’s) is unaffected by contagion from an over-leveraged, under-managed euro zone. No country (not [...]
2 Russian media officials are fired (AP)
MOSCOW ? The owner of Russia’s top media holding company has fired an editor and a senior manager over what he described as an “ethical breach.” Alisher Usmanov, one of Russia’s richest men, didn’t provide details about what had happened, but some observers described the move as an attempt to muzzle coverage that had criticized [...]
Putin’s party losing support in parliamentary vote (AP)
MOSCOW ? Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s party struggled to hang onto its majority in Russia’s parliamentary election, results showed Monday, suggesting Russians were wearying of the man who has dominated Russian politics for more than a decade. Rival parties and election monitors said even a result of around 50 percent was inflated, alleging ballot-stuffing and [...]