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Interestingly, an ivory statue of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi, dating back to the first century BC, was found during excavations of the ruins of Pompeii in southern Italy.
A World of UnderinvestmentMILAN – When World War II ended 70 years ago, much of the world – including industrialized Europe, Japan, and other countries that had been occupied – was left geopolitically riven and burdened by heavy sovereign debt, with many major economies in ruins.
Yugoslavia’s enmities, and the ruins of its economy, need to be addressed in a similar spirit.
Indeed, Turkish foreign policy is now far more proactive and multi-dimensional than at any period since Kemal Ataturk founded modern Turkey out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire.
So, while it might be time to rethink the world order built by the US on the ruins of WWII, the Trump presidency is unlikely to bring this about in a careful and orderly manner.
New groups constantly emerge from the ruins of old ones.
The End of 1945NEW YORK – On May 8, 1945, when World War II in Europe officially ended, much of the world lay in ruins.
From the ruins of another empire, Russia's, I would add: There is nothing more conspicuous than an absent monument.
The country remains in ruins, and reconstruction has yet to begin.
And yet the disconnect between this reality and the Poland “in ruins” or “on the verge of catastrophe” perceived by many voters was too strong to ignore.
Decades of neglect coupled with foreign intervention left the country in ruins, with reverberations across the world.
In our hamlet, there is one small working farm, a couple of holiday houses and the ruins of seven or eight other houses.
Putin is wary about relinquishing this asset, so he vested its supervision in the loyal hands of Sergei Shoigu, who is in many ways a Putin clone, for he used the ruins of the old Soviet civil defense system to construct in a short space of time a secretive empire of his own.
But the liberties of Europeans will not be better served by blowing up the institutions that were carefully constructed in the ruins of the last calamitous European war.
This is where we stand: Aleppo, besieged and in ruins, exhausted and abandoned by the world, yet defiant – dying with its boots on – is our shame, our crime of omission, our self-abasement, our capitulation in the face of brute force, our acceptance of the worst in humanity.
Turkey’s highest courts rationalize these harsh measures against veiling by invoking the country’s constitutionally mandated secularism, which Kemal Ataturk imposed when he created modern Turkey out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire.
The system was dead already, and it is to Yeltsin’s great credit that he was able to bring Russia out of the ruins in one piece.
In 1987 he had been stripped of all party jobs; his political career lay in ruins.
He recounted entering the still-smoldering ruins of the mall last week and seeing bodies hanging from hooks.
It was a crime, she said, without trace (no written orders; no official directive, ever, anywhere); without graves (her father, brother, and mother became smoke and ash, with no marker but her own memory and, later, her autobiography); without ruins (Auschwitz, when she returns to it years later, is becalmed, neutralized, cleansed); without exit (Sarajevans, Rwandans, and Cambodians could, at least in theory, flee, whereas the hallmark of the Holocaust is that the world itself was a trap); and, finally, without reason (given the choice of expediting a troop train headed for the front or a train carrying Jews to the ovens, the Nazis always chose the latter).
But, in order to succeed, he will have to save some of their ideals from the ruins of their disastrous policies.
Imagine the scene: Bucharest, le petit Paris, a city of three million people with wide boulevards and grand bourgeois villas, stands now a city half in ruins.
The problem is that stagnation ruins investment prospects.
If we want to build something better on the ruins of multicultural indifference, our dialogue must become more profound.
But it is a very different world from the one left in ruins in 1945.
Britain’s New InternationalismTOLEDO, SPAIN -- With President George W. Bush’s grand strategy for the Middle East in ruins, his administration has, however hesitantly, begun to put greater emphasis on resolving conflicts by peaceful means.
Amid the ruins, learning endured, as 15 young Syrians prepared for their university exams.
A de facto Pashtunistan, long sought by Pashtuns, has now grown up on the ruins of an ongoing Islamist militancy, but without any political authority in charge.
They did not glorify historical battles, because they could see the ruins of those battles all around them – images that inspired them to build a different kind of future.
The liberal world order that arose from the ruins of World War II to help prevent future catastrophes is facing its most difficult test yet.
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