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So it is today, to some degree, with Pax Americana – a kind of imperial world order that was never a formal empire.
Never before either in Russia or in any other state, insofar as I know, was an election campaign so utterly dirty, with countless formal and factual violations of Russian laws and infringements of democratic norms.
Two out of the three most important TV channels (state channels from the formal point of view but are really controlled by the "family" around President Yeltsin, including the family oligarchs like Boris Berezovsky), transmitting across all Russia, almost completely prevented the two main opposition parties -- the Primakov and Luzhkov "Fatherland-All Russia”(OVR) and Yavlinskiy's "Yabloko" from getting their message broadcast.
Formal freedom of the mass media still exists, but only for trivial matters.
Ostensibly, he is an appointee of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, but in reality he is virtually independent of the Kremlin, which pays him substantial financial support, not only for his formal declaration of loyalty, but also for his public embrace of Putin.
But neither the Kremlin nor its North Caucasian allies are ready for formal separation.
In addition to formal public diplomacy mouthpieces like Russia Today and Sputnik, Russia employs armies of paid trolls and botnets to generate false information that can later be circulated and legitimated as if it were true.
Still, when representatives of the US and the EU meet for formal consultations, they arrive at the table with different perceptions.
Legal, regulatory, and social discrimination against women in many countries still prevents them from seeking paid work in the formal sector.
As a result, the authorities failed to adequately carry out their formal functions, obligatory under any circumstances, functions that are not politically determined, such as maintaining order and individual safety, preventing economic damage caused by massive strikes or, say, the "rail wars" of the last year.
Formal ceasefires or political solutions are inconceivable.
The first formal arms-control agreement was the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty, which can be considered mainly an environmental treaty.
Nonetheless, some institutions, both formal and informal, already govern the basic functioning of the Internet.
Democratic participation is the best way to integrate people into society and make them feel that their opinions count, regardless of whether they have formal citizenship and thus the right to vote.
This is an excellent suggestion, but such senior-level engagement should also occur at the outset, before the start of formal trade negotiations, which are expected to begin this summer.
Rather than working on-site at the company, students learn the skills to solve the tasks with their teachers and present their ideas to companies at formal meetings.
Indeed, almost half of the formal increase is not an increase at all, but merely recognition of rural workers who have been living and working in cities for some time.
This is a bleak reversal for the United States, a country that has historically set a powerful positive example with its formal and informal mechanisms for protecting freedom of the press and its robust culture of investigative journalism.
Informal was married with formal.
Although she lacks formal political or diplomatic experience, her personal connections, particularly to Obama, will have great significance for US-Japan relations.
The formal sessions played out predictably, placing great emphasis on the coming structural transformation of China’s growth model – a colossal shift from the all-powerful export- and investment-led growth of the past 32 years to a more consumer-led dynamic.
But the CDF’s formal proceedings never even hinted at the elephant in the chambers of Diaoyutai.
But, in their formal remarks to the CDF this year, China’s senior leadership – including Premier-designate Li Keqiang – dropped all explicit references to the risks of an “unstable” Chinese economy.
Successful multilateral responses, like the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, continue to be supported by more flexible global platforms, such as the Nuclear Threat Initiative, based on relationships and trust established outside the box of formal multilateralism.
In nearly every country, women and girls face systemic barriers that bar them from full and equal participation in the workforce and the formal economy more broadly.
While it is a remarkable achievement that one million Syrian children are now enrolled in formal or non-formal education programs in the region – including many in schools running on double shifts – one million more refugee children from that conflict are still awaiting their opportunity.
The charges – including hubris, neglect of social goals beyond incomes, excessive attention to formal techniques, and failure to predict major economic developments such as financial crises – have usually come from outsiders, or from a heterodox fringe.
Practitioners use a variety of formal and informal empirical methods with varying skill.
This should entail, first and foremost, broadcasting formal debates between the leading candidates across Europe – the model being the Eurovision Song Contest and the Champions League in football (soccer).
There were always suspicions of formal or informal banking cartels, which would agree on conditions and interest rates.
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