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Except for the Palestinians, they have never known their countries other than as independent and comparatively stable states.
In her articles for one of the few remaining independent papers in Moscow, Novaya Gazeta, and in her books “Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy” and “A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya,” Politkovskaya wrote of the vanishing freedoms that are the signature characteristic of Putin’s presidency.
This was a war with no witnesses, as the government barred independent journalists and observers from the war zone.
In fact, Putin’s efforts to recapture Russia’s former territory have overshadowed his stifling of non-governmental organizations, repression of independent media, and silencing of opposition voices.
Women are among those most vulnerable to the impacts of unsustainable practices and climate change, because they often have no independent income or land rights.
Whereas the Central Asian republics’ rulers wished to keep the Soviet structure, it was Yeltsin and the Russian government which wanted to put an end to the Soviet Union and create an independent Russian Federation.
In Chechnya, we are seeing the tactics Russia has developed against the newly independent states utilized against a republic of the Russian Federation.
In the spirit of scientific cooperation, Folta offered to collaborate with Ayyadurai on university-based testing of genetically engineered corn and soy samples (along with appropriate controls), with analysis by an independent lab.
So democracy in an independent Palestinian state is possible.
In January, 69% of Russians supported the Kremlin’s policy in Ukraine, according to a poll by the independent Levada Center.
The current de-centralized supervisory framework, with several independent “host” supervisors for subsidiaries and the parent bank’s home supervisor as primus inter pares , is clearly unsatisfactory.
Without impersonal, general norms and their enforcement by independent judicial authorities, according to this view, little development, if any, is possible, because the risks facing both labor and capital – including corruption, arbitrariness, and rigid traditions – will be too high.
Spain, too, is in serious trouble, owing to the budget deficits of its traditionally independent regional governments, the weakness of its banks, and its need to roll over large sovereign-debt balances each year.
Even the principal Kurdish parties are facing a challenge from an independent party, Goran, and are likely to incur some losses to it.
The other factions thought that he deserved the hostile criticism that followed in the wake of the Kremlin’s bumbles, and the liberals hoped that this debacle would reinforce independent media.
In Bangladesh, the government is officially exploring measures that independent economists from there and around the world concluded would do the most to increase prosperity and wellbeing.
But for countries like Bangladesh and Haiti, it provides a vital, independent injection of data on which sound decisions can be based.
Khamenei has never been willing to tolerate a president with a large independent power base.
Since 1800, the global economy has endured several such cycles, with the share of independent countries undergoing restructuring during any given year oscillating between zero and 50% (see figure).
Financial contributions will always be welcomed by the media, and especially by cash-strapped independent outlets.
In 2012, a cash injection from Serbian authorities into the state-controlled news agency, Tanjug, gave it a massive competitive edge over the independent news service Beta.
In Hungary, too, independent journalism is struggling to keep pace with state-funded behemoths.
If even a fraction of the budgetary windfall received by state media was redirected to independent news organizations, journalism would thrive and the public would be better informed.
Social impact bonds, or SIBs, require that private investors and other non-government actors cover most or all of the upfront cost of a pilot project, to be reimbursed by the contracting government agency only if independent evaluators conclude that the project achieves its goals and saves taxpayers money.
Indeed, last month, independent evaluators concluded that the program had not met New York City’s targets.
Rather than control the economy outright, Arab governments should foster the emergence of independent yet accountable regulators that can help ensure improved economic outcomes.
Creating an independent fiscal institution that provides its own budget forecasts works, insofar as it reduces the bias in deficit projections.
When forecasting while in violation of the eurozone’s Excessive Deficit Procedure, eurozone members with an independent budget-forecasting institution have a mean bias that is 2.7% of GDP smaller at the one-year horizon than members without such an institution.
It would be better still if governments were legally bound to use these independent forecasts in their budget plans (borrowing an innovation from Chile).
These institutions include independent fiscal-forecasting agencies, combined with the cyclically adjusted budget targets that the eurozone’s fiscal compact mandates.
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