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Latest publications from 15-21 November, 2009

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latest publications from 2009-11-15 to 2009-11-21

2009-11-18
Igor TOMBERG
Hidden Agenda in IEA Forecasts
“Generally, World Energy Outlook 2009 can be regarded as a PR initiative of importers seeking dominance over natural gas markets. Though it must be recognized that the IEA advanced data-gathering system positions its reports among the best sources of information about the state of the energy sector, the IEA estimates and conclusions cannot be taken uncritically due to serious inaccuracies and bias in them…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2587

2009-11-17
Viktor PIROZHENKO (Ukraine)
“Ukraine`s Security Service and Commission on Morality as Organs of Political Inquisition”
“Modern Ukraine is the country where people’s rights to speak their native languages and profess any religion are being rudely violated. And all this, I think, can be perfectly described as the ‘Galician ethnic dictatorship’. In the country with almost 17 million of Russians and where about 70% of the population speak Russian, this language lacks an official status…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2593

2009-11-20
Aleksandr SHUSTOV
Uzbekistan: drifting West
“Uzbekistan’s foreign policy is becoming more West-oriented. In late October the EU removed the sanctions it had imposed on Uzbekistan after the massacre in Andijan in May 2005. Uzbekistan is one of the US’ key partners of the US and Central Asia again… After the launch of “Northern network of supplies”, intended to replace route via Pakistan which became too dangerous, Uzbekistan has become especially important for the US, because all the transit routes agreed with the Russian authorities end at a check point in Termeze in Uzbekistan…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2595

2009-11-19
Joanne NAIMAN (Canada)
Combating Anti-Semitism or Shielding Israel?
“The reality is that what is repeatedly being referred to as new anti-Semitism is actually an escalating critique of the policies of the State of Israel… It is not surprising that as the criticism of Israeli government policies has increased worldwide, so have cries of the growth of a global resurgence of anti-Semitism…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2597

2009-11-20
Rafe MAIR (Canada)
How About Some Free Speech About Free Speech?
“The London Daily Telegraph reported recently that every phone call, text message, and website visit made by private citizens is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies. In Britain where a man s home is his castle it can now invaded by a snooping government without the need for a warrant! George Orwell s only mistake was to call his book 1984 instead of 2009…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2600