George W. Bush and his Republicans suffered a crushing defeat in elections to the Congress - by
Eugene Bay (Washington), Helen Shesternina

At the elections in the U.S. Congress, that in fact became rehearsal of presidential election-2008, George W. Bush ’s Republican Party suffered a crushing defeat. Democrats for the first time in last 12 years, returned to regain control of the House of Representatives, won in the most of states, where held governors’ elections, and have every chance to ensure a majority in the Senate.
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On Monday in Moscow with official visit will arrive U.S. Secretary of the State Condoleezza Rice and the head of the U.S. Department of Defense Robert Gates. It is planed to meet with Vladimir Putin.

I do not think that here were taken some breakthrough fateful decision - in effect that the current U.S. president and will spend less than a year on his post. In such situation the president of America is called ‘lame duck’, and also his personal popularity rating is low. In these circumstances, a maximum of what can be expected from this meeting is that the parties agree not to take any steps that could further harm US-Russian relations. I do not see any issues on which the parties could on the basis of this meeting conclude convergence or agreement.
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Analysis of the dynamics of the main political orientations of massive groups of Russian society and the state of contemporary Russian elites suggests the two most probable scenarios of the evolution of the political regime that exist in contemporary Russia.
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The problem of efficiency and dynamism of democratic institutions is very relevant for many countries, including Russia. As we know from the history, democracy has often degenerated into different types of autocracies with previous form, but not on the content of political institutions, which gradually lost its democratic nature and acquired a totally different character. Considering the fact that during the democratic process in 1970 – 1990 a lot of countries in the democratic institutions fostered on the top of existed form, not relying on a strong agreement (pact), the main political forces, the probability that in a crisis situation, these institutions may be ineffective.
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The development of democracy in a global dimension, as well as processes related to transit in a democratic country is closely intertwined with other global and civilizational processes, particularly with the processes of globalization and information society development. In doing so, as the experience of recent years, globalization and informatization is not always conducive to the development of democratic institutions and processes of democratic consolidation, especially in countries with incomplete modernization and the unfinished democratic transit, which in terms of world-systems approach to include the periphery and demiperiphery.
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Today will start working the tenth plenary meeting of the Senate of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan. One of the important issues on the agenda opens the tenth plenary session of Senate of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan is the consideration of laws of the introduction of amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan in connection with the abolition of the death penalty and the transfer to the courts to issue sanctions on detention.
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