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Ethnic minority students in Romania may now take university entrance exams in their native tongues and the Hungarian-language Bolyai university in Cluj, closed since the late 1950s, is to be reopened.
The Kremlin closed its eyes to Kadryov’s amnesty of former guerrillas and their inclusion in his paramilitary units.
Like Britain and the US, France remains deeply divided between those who favor a liberal, open society and those who seek closed politics and borders, between supporters of European and global integration and proponents of nationalism and protectionism.
But now America’s debt ceiling has become the subject of intense political posturing and touch-and-go negotiations behind closed doors.
Half of Russia's banks closed, and many Russians lost their savings, while living standards fell by some 30%.
Fortunately, they seemed to have a temperament closer to Colin Powell’s than to either Than Shwe or Maung Aye , the two closed military minds who have cut off Myanmar from the world.
The US economy is still rather closed (imports and exports account on average for only about 15% of GDP), and historically exports have never been the main engine of its growth.
I defined its objectives as opening up closed societies, making open societies more viable, and promoting a critical mode of thinking.
Recognizing that an open society is a more advanced, more sophisticated form of social organization than a closed society (because in a closed society there is only one blueprint, which is imposed on society, whereas in an open society each citizen is not only allowed but required to think for himself), the foundations shifted from a subversive task to a constructive one.
Instead of a simple dichotomy between open and closed societies, I see the open society as occupying a middle ground, where rights of the individual are safeguarded but where there are also some shared values that hold society together.
Privatization, market liberalization, the opening of closed professions, and government downsizing involve conflicts with powerful vested interests, such as businesses in protected industries, public-sector unions, or influential lobbies.
Those ties have been strained since 1993, when Turkey closed its border with Armenia in solidarity with Azerbaijan in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
The border remained closed.
Keeping the border closed will not solve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Nor have small and micro enterprises, the backbone of India’s economy, many of which closed because of demonetization and never reopened, throwing millions out of work.
He claims that “cases like this should be closed from all sides,” because “they contain state secrets.”
The Too-Quiet AmericanNEW YORK – It is now apparent that the United States is the main culprit in preventing the ten-year-old multilateral trade negotiations known as the Doha Round from being closed this year.
They still remember the suffering of the Mao years, when China headed in the wrong direction – and tried to do too much too quickly – and they vividly recall how the Tiananmen protests brought the regime to its knees, and how urban labor unrest erupted when centrally managed state businesses were merged or closed down in the 1990’s.
Specifically, the agreement would have given US businesses access to markets that had long been largely closed.
We should understand that this time-tested script for establishing or enforcing a dictatorship exists – but so does a counter-strategy for opening up a closed society.
Will the continent’s voters be presented with a choice between a closed and an open society?
But it is now starting to look like that window has already closed.
Between 2004 and 2013, African states closed just 158 financing deals for infrastructure or industrial projects, valued at $59 billion – just 5% of the total needed.
Japan, Germany, and Russia all saw large outflows of their populations before the First World War, but these flows slowed to a trickle as countries like the US closed their doors to immigrants in the wake of the Great Depression that began in 1929.
Car dealerships are being closed.
Financial stability was obviously a smokescreen: taxpayers were forced to repay even the debts of a bank that had already been closed (and thus systemically irrelevant).
A greater sense of regional identity exists even if regional cooperation is limited and most people think it should not take the form of a closed bloc or union.
In the aftermath of the attacks, the schools are usually closed, with the students left to roam the streets.
But this presupposes that the possession of such data does indeed imply a competitive advantage, and that a closed operating model is financially sustainable.
Some of the media outlets that supported the probe have been closed down and taken over by the government.
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