1. Italy: the ungovernable nation
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...tal hour. His slogan Si Puo Fare ("Yes we can") is taken from Barack Obama's Democratic campaign in the United States - signifying that Veltroni, an admirer of John F Kennedy and many other foreign...

2. Georgia?s democratic stalemate
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...001, this party was the Citizens' Union of Georgia. In November 2004, a new "party of power" called the United National Movement (UNM) was formed from a merger of then prime minister Zurab Zhvania'...

3. Battling KGB Inc, by Garry Kasparov
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...e promised to help with the North Koreans, and now they have missiles capable of reaching the continental United States. As a result of endless negotiations with Russia, Iran is more belligerent than ...

4. When will the Chinese People be Free?
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... 1991 to 0.46 in 2000. (A higher number means less equal; it is 0.30 on average in Europe and 0.45 in the United States.) Income differences have also widened within urban areas, symbolized by reports...

5. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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... congressional vote to hand eighteen-month "special powers" to the president; the creation of a united ruling party (the Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela / PSUV) that entails the effect...