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Edition 102.5

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Russia-Georgia relationship

Georgia & Russia: it's over

A long, intimate if rough partnership is going badly wrong. Donald Rayfield explains why Tbilisi and Moscow fell out of love

The cost of freedom in the digital age

Creative Commons logo

Creative commons, open source and open access are the buzzwords of the digital age. But are they a just reward for creative endeavour, asks Ehsan Masood

Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kozzak/142662881/

Bosnia: after the post-war

The Dayton agreement has frozen Bosnian divisions. Nicholas Walton in Sarajevo sees an election glimmer

Image: L'Unione party logo

A fourth way for the European left?

Italy's new Democratic Party could pioneer a realignment of Europe's political landscape, says Denis MacShane

Image: http://static.flickr.com/68/180188112_f615613743.jpg?v=0

Budapest rising

The true scale of 1956's epic revolution puts Hungary's 2006 protests in perspective, says Patrice de Beer

Image: Shopping for Bombs book cover

Pakistan's bomb broker

The unknowns surrounding Abdul Qadeer Khan's nuclear network suggest the scale of its damage, writes Gordon Corera

Rupert Murdoch

All hail the Sun King

Tom Burgis crowns Rupert Murdoch the monthly Bad Democrat, and introduces October's nominees

Image: Girls carrying water home, Gojam, Ethiopia, May 2006; Carlos Reyes-Manzo

Digging for blue gold

Carlos Reyes-Manzo documents the effects of drought in Ethiopia in a powerful photo slideshow

Lula and Brazil flag

The green and yellow phoenix

Brazilians have said "yes, but…" to Lula. Arthur Ituassu explains why

Image:peace talks

Darfur: so near, so far

The peace agreement is broken, says Alex de Waal, who helped mediate it. Creating a new one will be hard. But there is no other way

US soldier

Cheney, Iraq and the laws of war

The US vice-president has justified pre-emptive war. Leading legal scholars respond in an open letter: "Congress must say no - law matters"

Turkey flag and building

The future in the past

Turkish writers – Orhan Pamuk, Hrant Dink, Elif Shafak – are prosecuted for speaking freely. It's Europe's problem too, says Daria Vaisman

street vendor, china

China's food fears

In our final Ulysses prize extract, Zhou Qing exposes the underbelly of Chinese food production, from opiates in soup to pesticides in pickles

Plus: Juanita León documents youth protest music in Urabá, Colombia

Image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:N%C3%A9stor_Kirchner_y_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez-Venezuela-Julio_2004.jpg

Dictators or democrats?

Evo, Hugo, Lula, Nestór - Latin America's leftist leaders are products as well as agents of history. This will shape their fate, says Ivan Briscoe

 
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Quote of the day

"You can't spin the planet"





What they say about
Brazil's election fallout

"Victory will just take a little longer, that's all"

"I doubt a (Geraldo) Alckmin presidency would differ significantly from a second-term Lula government"

"The last few years were a big deception, scandal after scandal. We had to show our discontent"






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