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20 September 2012
Globalization, the tech revolution and the middle class
One of the paradoxes of our age is that we are simultaneously living through a time of positive economic innovation and also a time of the painful erosion of the way of life of many middle-class families.
20 September 2012
YES, we like it
With Ukraine’s hopes for integration with the European Union going nowhere amid President Viktor Yanukovych’s authoritarian leanings, one event devoted to the cause keeps getting better. Viktor Pinchuk’s 9th Yalta European Strategy, which took place on Sept. 14-15 in Crimea, is truly becoming a plus for a nation still lacking in international identity, stature and respect. Billionaire Pinchuk has managed to turn this seaside gathering into something unique and beneficial.
«The sanctions' regime has failed utterly, partly because no one was serious on either side of the Atlantic about cutting off revenues to Russia from its exports of fossil fuels. But also because of a massive hypocrisy by European states that have continued to export to Russia via third countries.»