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Ukrainian Peninsula of Crimea: gambling game for Russia and reliability test for International Organizations

Any strategic game starts with a map. The territory of Ukraine seems to be one of the most attractive regions for Russia in the post soviet area. The bloody “Arab Spring” have already past when Russia boasted of its diplomatic abilities and president Putin has evidently decided to recall his falling into a tyrannical habit of aggressiveness now regarding its freedom-loving neighboring country – Ukraine. The plausible reason for choosing Ukrainian Peninsula of Crimea as an object for imperial…

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The publication of the new issue of the literary journal of the UN
United Nations Society of Writers

On Friday 24 January 2014 the United Nations Society of Writers held its 18th annual salon hosting 61 literature enthusiasts and 12 readers from the UN, UNCTAD, UNHCR, OHCHR, ILO, PEN Club and the Société Vaudoise des Ecrivains. Participants declamed poetry and epigrams in Arabic, English, French, German, Latin, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Aline Dedeyan performed her funny sketch “tax evasion”. We celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of the American poet William Stafford, and the 150th anniversary…

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