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This month, the country closed the United States’ military transit center near Bishkek, and declared its intention to join the customs union that preceded the EaEU by the end of this year.
That December vote on the EU Constitutional Treaty closed this parenthesis: by approving of it, the Socialists consciously accepted a reformist, social democratic, European identity.
The world economy would heal, but in a slow and uneven fashion, as advanced economies muddled through while the more dynamic emerging world gradually closed today’s income and wealth gaps.
In 2007, when Estonia’s government moved a World War II statue commemorating Soviet war dead, hackers retaliated with a costly denial-of-service attack that closed down Estonia’s access to the internet.
“Second, though we have closed the prisons, we must seek the forgiveness of our fellow nations for the horrors that we committed or with which we colluded by engaging in state-sanctioned torture and “extraordinary rendition” of detainees to countries that torture.
With its current levels of immigration, America is one of the few developed countries that may avoid demographic decline and keep its share of world population, but this might change if reactions to terrorist events or public xenophobia closed the borders.
They have a rather closed system of big corporations and big labour unions loosely directed by an interventionist government with the collaboration of big banks.
At the same time, regulators increased inspections, closed down some 180 food manufacturers and now post the names of violators on their Web site.
For centuries, Japanese minds, and Japanese borders, were distinctly closed.
For one thing, the US, like some parts of Europe, is now at risk of entering its own period of closed minds and closed borders.
And it is very possible that, behind closed doors, Chinese officials are already testing their ability to manipulate some of the shadowy figures surrounding Kim, who appears increasingly paranoid about the possibility of a coup.
Moreover, it is a pattern that has closed the gap (now roughly 40%) between per capita income in America’s poorest and richest states, as labor and capital continually adjust by moving to areas where productivity is higher.
Enlargement of the European Union to include the first batch of applicant countries is now within reach as more and more chapters are closed in the bilateral negotiations.
Several hours after the polls closed, it turned out that Likud was the big winner, gaining 30 of the Knesset’s 120 seats, compared to 24 for the Zionist Union.
The election is not until November 2016, and very few candidates have formally thrown their hats into the ring, but the competition to promote and develop ideas – both behind closed doors and publicly – is in fully swing.
As opportunities appeared, we began to re-privatize assets, and within a few years Securum was closed.
Equally important, no newspapers were closed, stories suppressed, or journalists harassed, as occurred in earlier Kazakh elections.
Yet Sridevi’s death became the subject of ghoulish stories, particularly on television, about what might have happened behind the closed door of her bathroom, with one TV anchor even attempting to enact a bathtub drowning.
That deficit, which threatens the futures of these kids and their societies, can now be closed at low cost.
The convention of taking sex-crime testimony from alleged victims behind closed doors, under conditions of anonymity or confidentiality, only serves institutions like universities or the military that are intent on covering up criminal behavior.
Presumably, Putin would not object to the infliction of such damage behind closed doors, during a debriefing with the Russian security services.
In both countries, demonstrations have been banned; places of worship have been closed; and hundreds of people have been detained and interrogated for having voiced an unconventional opinion.
Some non-democratic systems seem to evoke deeper support, because they are based on religious or national communal solidarity, and because closed societies minimize doubt, drift, and criticism.
Now, these deported criminals can go to the previously closed big cities and kill rich people instead of poor Siberians.
Moreover, the minds of many hospital directors are as firmly closed as the institutions themselves.
We have learned the hard way that closed political systems breed resentment and extremism aimed against the interests of America, the West, and, indeed, the entire world.
Closed economic systems also pose a danger.
But attempting to live a closed life in an open society is bound to be self-defeating and not something a liberal society should encourage.
For liberals, the question is never whether borders should be completely open or closed; a society open to all would have no rights worth protecting, while a society closed to all would have no rights worth emulating.
For young citizens, particularly Islamists, normal channels of political participation have been closed off.
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