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4 weeks ago | 
lasvegassun.com | Serge Schmemann
President Donald Trump’s efforts to mute Voice of America and other U.S.-government-funded international broadcasters carries serious consequences: It strips the United States of one of its most venerable and effective instruments of soft power. The order to eliminate the U.S. Agency for Global Media “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law” was tucked into a measure also shutting down several other small government entities.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Eyad Abu Shakra |Ghassan Charbel |Serge Schmemann |Faisal Saleh
Even the most seasoned among us journalists are currently witnessing a historic moment. I believe that we have not seen anything like this since the emergence of the new world order following the Cold War... perhaps even since the end of World War II. We have not seen the foundations of international relations crumble, the spirit of international law undermined, and concepts such as state sovereignty and national self-determination so blatantly disregarded, since the 1990s.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Eyad Abu Shakra |Ghassan Charbel |Serge Schmemann
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2 months ago | 
qoshe.com | Serge Schmemann
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2 months ago | 
japantimes.co.jp | Serge Schmemann
It was March 1994, more than two years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the debates within the U.S. Embassy in Moscow were heated. Diplomats in the economic section, backed by the Treasury Department in Washington, argued ardently that radical free-market reforms were the only path for post-Soviet Russia and that democracy would surely follow.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Ghassan Charbel |Serge Schmemann |Faisal Saleh |Emile Ameen
Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's choice of Saudi Arabia as the destination of his first foreign visit aimed to deliver blunt messages inside Syria and beyond. This isn’t only about Saudi Arabia being an economic and political heavyweight on the Arab, Islamic and international levels, but also about the new Saudi Arabia, which in a handful of years has become more open and witnessed rapid reforms and advances.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Serge Schmemann |Faisal Saleh |Emile Ameen |Mamdouh al-Muhainy
It was March 1994, more than two years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the debates within the US Embassy in Moscow were heated. Diplomats in the economic section, backed by the Treasury Department in Washington, argued ardently that radical free-market reforms were the only path for post-Soviet Russia, and that democracy would surely follow.
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2 months ago | 
clarin.com | Serge Schmemann
Era marzo de 1994, más de dos años después de la desintegración de la Unión Soviética, y los debates en la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Moscú eran acalorados. Los diplomáticos del sector económico, respaldados por el Departamento del Tesoro en Washington, argumentaron ardientemente que las reformas radicales de libre mercado eran el único camino para la Rusia postsoviética, y que la democracia seguramente vendría después.
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2 months ago | 
sanjuandailystar.com | Serge Schmemann
By Serge SchmemannIt was March 1994, more than two years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the debates within the U.S. Embassy in Moscow were heated. Diplomats in the economic section, backed by the Treasury Department in Washington, argued ardently that radical free-market reforms were the only path for post-Soviet Russia, and that democracy would surely follow.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Serge Schmemann
It was March 1994, more than two years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the debates within the U.S. Embassy in Moscow were heated. Diplomats in the economic section, backed by the Treasury Department in Washington, argued ardently that radical free-market reforms were the only path for post-Soviet Russia, and that democracy would surely follow.
