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Russia and its people can triumph only if Kremlin loyalists seeking his successor leave with him.
So powerfully do his ideas resonate that high ranking officials such as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, successor to Ayatollah Khomeini and now Iran's Supreme Guide, increasingly frame public remarks to take account of, and respond to, Soroush's articles and speeches.
Indeed, Berezovsky intended to continue ruling the country from behind the scenes, first as Yeltsin’s health failed in the final months of his presidency, and then by controlling the successor he had helped to choose.
Before Zubkov’s nomination, reports swirled that the next prime minister would become Putin’s presidential successor, with Sergei Ivanov, a current deputy prime minister, dubbed the most likely candidate.
The only question now is whether Zubkov, or his successor, will eventually succeed in turning Czar Vladimir into the same sort of non-person that Putin’s rivals have become.
As Yeltsin prepared to stand down as Russia’s first democratically elected president, he sought a successor who would protect his personal safety and wealth, and that of his family, in his dotage.
And whereas past presidential directives have been reversible, either immediately or within a very short timeframe, the commitment that Obama made under the Paris agreement has a four-year withdrawal process that is binding on his successor.
When Putin made the most important appointment of his life – the choice of his successor – one can be sure that his calculations were thorough.
Viktor Chernomyrdin says one day that he is willing to cooperate with his successor as prime minister, the free marketeer Sergei Kirienko, but huffs the next about dealing with his reform-minded predecessor, Yegor Gaidar.
The China-US Climate DuetBEIJING – Without active collaboration between the United States and China, not only will the odds for successful negotiations in Copenhagen this December to secure a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol be diminished, but it will be unlikely that any meaningful remedy will be found in time to arrest rising global temperatures.
Judgment Day for the EurozoneMUNICH – Europe and the world are eagerly awaiting the decision of Germany’s Constitutional Court on September 12 regarding the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the proposed permanent successor to the eurozone’s current emergency lender, the European Financial Stability Mechanism.
His successor, Jiang Zemin, undertook internal reevaluation of the CCP and expansion of its base through the “Three Represents.”
In Pittsburgh, with the clock ticking on talks to adopt a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol this December in Copenhagen, the G-20 will have a real opportunity to show that the color of serious money to meet both climate and development goals really is green.
It may be his last before he hands over power to his apparently designated successor, Vice President Xi Jinping, in 2012 – coincidentally the same year that President Barack Obama will be campaigning for a second term in the White House.
As a result, the victory of Umaru Yar’Adua, the candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and President Olusegun Obasanjo’s hand-picked successor, is now hotly disputed.
This conundrum will lie at the heart of the diplomacy next year to find a successor to the Kyoto agreement.
Other political factors deterred Britain and France – and Bush’s successor, Bill Clinton – from intervening until another three years of killing had taken place.
Quite the contrary, it may have been Mugabe’s possible successor – his wife, Grace.
Ironically, Mujuru was once viewed as a potential successor to Mugabe.
From one perspective, Milton Friedman was the star pupil of, successor to, and completer of Keynes’s work.
Obama’s Blunder at the BankNEW YORK – The selection of a successor to Robert Zoellick as President of the World Bank was supposed to initiate a new era of open meritocratic competition, breaking the traditional hold that the United States has had on the job.
But, with no single all-powerful leader, it will be hard for any successor to force through the difficult decisions required by such an orientation.
Arafat not only left no successor, but no order.
Indeed, the country could be facing catastrophe, as Hollande’s actions risk miring the economy into sustained stagnation and driving an increasingly angry French public to elect the far-right National Front party’s Marine Le Pen as his successor.
His challenge will not only be his cavalier attitude to the truth, but also his record of insulting many of those – including US President Barack Obama and his possible successor, Hillary Clinton – with whom he will need to do business.
Obama is still fighting back home for his healthcare initiative, and is hamstrung from acting on climate change in time for the Copenhagen summit, which is to agree on a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol.
It also supported a successor to the Commission, the High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress.
That same day in Argentina, former president Nestor Kirchner was defeated in a mid-term election that many people viewed as a test of whether or not he or his wife Cristina, Argentina’s current president and Nestor’s successor, would continue as president after the vote of 2011.
After a run of growth, Brazil’s economy collapsed under Lula’s successor, former President Dilma Rousseff, whose “new economic matrix” entailed disruptive, interventionist, and protectionist policies.
Without US backing, it is unlikely that the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its successor, the World Trade Organization, could have gained sufficient authority to deepen and safeguard the post-war trading system.
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