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    Putin Is Losing the Battle for Russia’s Future

    Andrei Kolesnikov

    Since arresting Alexei Navalny on his return from Germany and hastily packing him off to prison, the Russian authorities have turned the country's politics into a binary affair: you are either with Navalny or with President Vladimir Putin. And that is a contest that Putin is no longer confident he can win. 

     likens the Kremlin's attacks on protesters to a war – one that betrays the regime's lack of confidence.
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    Calls by US President Joe Biden and others to “build back better” after the COVID-19 catastrophe have attracted widespread support, raising hopes of far-reaching changes in policymaking and business. But which new norms and concrete measures lie beyond leaders’ hortatory appeals, and who should implement them?

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  1. Nurul Izzah Anwar Nurul Izzah Anwar ,
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Calls by US President Joe Biden and others to “build back better” after the COVID-19 catastrophe have attracted widespread support, raising hopes of far-reaching changes in policymaking and business. But which new norms and concrete measures lie beyond leaders’ hortatory appeals, and who should implement them?

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Global inequality has unexpectedly declined during the pandemic – not because poorer countries became richer, but because richer countries became poorer. Many emerging and developing economies remain as fragile as ever, and the nature of the current convergence potentially threatens their future growth prospects.

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Rich-country governments, desperate to revive their economies, are pursuing vaccine nationalism and turning their backs on the developing world. But a healthy, peaceful, and prosperous Africa is in their interests, too, and can be achieved by implementing the vision and policies needed to boost the continent’s global standing and economic prospects.

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