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“He once said that the storms of war would glorify Russia,” Mr Putin told the crowd. “That is how it was in his time; that is how it is today and will always be!”
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open octagonal structure
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The legitimacy of the state is now grounded not in its public good, but in a quasi-religious cult.
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“the Russian world”, a previously obscure historical term for a Slavic civilisation based on shared ethnicity, religion and heritage.
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“If Russia wins, there will be no Ukraine; if Ukraine wins, there will be a new Russia.”
slogan of Ukraine
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The Ukrainians want to embrace many, if not all, the values held dear by other European nations.
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TITLE: West does not understand how Russia funciton
CONTENT: Former head of the CNN bureaue in Moscow summarises the following misunderstandings about Russia and current crisis:
- lack of property rights and legal certainty makes the political power the main power in Russian society;
- oligarhs are much less important for Russia than it looks form outside.
- siloviki hold the most of power in Russia. They are part of Putin's inner circle originating from KGB and Military. They keep their money in Russia.
Pressure on Putin's regime can work via sanctions
- on oil as the main source of wealth in Russia;
- on high tech which is used by Russian military industry.
These sanctions can become effective only with support of China and Indi.
Source: New York Times
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they must encourage India and China to do the same.
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the Russian military lacks the vital hardware and software used by other modern forces to gather real-time field intelligence,
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by limiting access to technology.
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If European countries were serious about affecting Mr. Putin’s thinking, they would spend less time seizing oligarchs’ yachts and more lessening their dependence on Russian energy.
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they believe give Russia its superpower status: its oil and its military.
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he word literally means people with force — the power that comes from being in the security forces or military.
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saying “they can’t get by without oysters or foie gras” and that they do not mentally exist “here, with our people, with Russia.”
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But the lack of properly defined property rights and a legal and institutional framework to protect them meant these oligarchs still depended on the Kremlin, occupied since 2000 by Mr. Putin.
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These oligarchs may hold wealth that connects them to power and can be used by Mr. Putin, but in Russia, that does not mean that they wield any power over him or those in the Kremlin.
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In Western capitalist democracies, wealth often equates to access and influence.
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Russian scholars have long noted that the absence of private property rights and impartial legal authority lead to state actors holding the power that determines the lives of Russians in every way.
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CEO of Black Rock, one of the biggest global investment fund, declared the end of globalisation we know as an impact of the Ukraine war.
On 24 March, Larry Fink wrote in his letter
'companies and governments will also be looking more broadly at their dependencies on other nations. This may lead companies to onshore or nearshore more of their operations, resulting in a faster pull back from some countries.'
He said that
“Mexico, Brazil, the United States, or manufacturing hubs in Southeast Asia could stand to benefit”
Black Rock will be focusing on digital currencies in the rapidly changing global economic environment.
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Digital currencies can also help bring down costs of cross-border payments, for example when expatriate workers send earnings back to their families.
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But the Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have experienced over the last three decades.
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Initially, the search for alternatives to Russian oil and natural gas “will inevitably slow the world’s progress toward net zero [emissions] in the near term”, he wrote.
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||Pavlina||||StephanieBP||||sorina|| Trans-Atlantic Data Security Framework is an interesting development that we should follow.
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After long negotiations, U.S. & EU agreed to establish Trans-Atlantic Data Security Framework. This framework is designed to facilitate data transfers across the Atlantic.
This Framework addresses EU concerns about surveillance of EU citizens' data by
- introducing principles of necessary and proportionate measures of surveillance.
- companies will have to adhere to the Privacy Shield Principles including 'the requirement to self-certify their adherence to the Principles through the U.S. Department of Commerce.
- oversight of signals intelligence activities (mainly NSA)
- an independent Data Protection Review Court that 'would consist of individuals chosen from outside the U.S. Government who would have full authority to adjudicate claims and direct remedial measures as needed;'
Next is the adoption of the Framework via legal mechanisms in U.S.A. or EU of the Framework. It will be done in the U.S. through an Executive Order.
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will be included in an Executive Order that will form the basis of the Commission’s assessment in its future adequacy decision.
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o translate this arrangement into legal documents that will need to be adopted on both sides to put in place this new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework.
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including through alternative dispute resolution and binding arbitration.
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he requirement to self-certify their adherence to the Principles through the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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a new redress mechanism with independent and binding authority;
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a new mechanism for EU individuals to seek redress if they believe they are unlawfully targeted by signals intelligence activities.
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signals intelligence activities are necessary and proportionate in the pursuit of defined national security objectives
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Then on Thursday, the Department of Justice unsealed indictments against four Russians accused of mounting state-sponsored cyberattacks against the US, publicly releasing details of a highly sophisticated hacking campaign involving supply-chain software compromises and spear-phishing campaigns against thousands of employees of companies and US government agencies.
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The centrality of agency in human security strategies in the Anthropocene context
||aldo.matteucciATgmail.com|| Aldo, following our telephone chat, here is a link to the section of the recent UNDP report which puts AGENCY in the center of the human security.
It echoes concepts that you refer to from the book of Thomas Snyder 'The Road to Unfreedom'.
Let us dive deeper on this interplay between human agency and security from different perspectives: political theory, human psychology, historical dynamics, etc. We can identify some crucial questions. I will annotate this report around the question of human agency and security.
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The pandemic further exposed the gender digital divide, showing that women and girls are at a dis-advantage in digital skills,
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Inequalities in access to digital technologies have widened inequalities in education during the Covid-19 pandemic, as the reliance on digital technologies for education has grown.
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both the potential benefits and potential threats of technol-ogy for children, but the effects are unequal.
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Some digital technologies can facilitate illicit eco-nomic transactions and tax evasion, as they allow for anonymity and untraceable transactions.
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Examples of these institutional arrangements are open-source platforms for software applications (such as Apache Hadoop, Nginx and Github), accessi-ble by digital and nondigital firms at zero cost. Many firms and developers use Github, an open-source re-pository of tools, software and application programs.
Importance of open source platform
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Digital labour platforms have given rise to an infor-mal labour force, in developed and developing coun-tries, creating new forms of insecurity in the world of work
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web-based platforms
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Digital labour management is transforming the world of work
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in digital social networks can diminish people’s wellbeing.
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quantum com-puters have considerable computing power and can revolutionize whole fields that require such power. But they could also be used to crack encryption al-gorithms of internet sites
Using word 'but' always with technologies.
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Digital technologies are altering the dynamics of conflict.
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new technolo-gies may serve as digital public goods,
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cited technological risks—such as digital inequality, cy-berattacks, data fraud and theft, and concentrated digital power—among the most imminent threats.
We should include these elements into our risk analysis.
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can also affect agency directly
here is an interesting aspect of 'agency'
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But efforts remain largely compartmentalized, dealing separately with climate change, biodiversity loss, conflicts, migration, refugees, pandemics and data protection.
Need to overcome silos.
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Title: “New threats to human security in the Anthropocene: Demanding greater solidarity” | 2022 Special Report on Human security by the UNDP.
Description:Despite people on average living longer, healthier, and wealthier lives, these advances have not succeeded in increasing people’s sense of security. This is true for countries right across the development spectrum, with perceptions of insecurity worsening most in several high-income countries, even before the Covid-19 pandemic. The report links new threats with the disconnect between people and planet in pursuit of development, arguing that they are deeply entwined with increasing planetary pressure. The report examines a cluster of threats that have shifted to become more prominent in recent years including those from digital technologies, inequalities, conflicts, and the ability of healthcare systems to tackle new challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Figure 1.4 Where human security is higher, trust tends to be higher, regardless of satisfaction with one’s financial situation
Link between human security and trust.
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fewer than 1 in 7 people at the global level feel secure or relatively secure.
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not only by meeting basic metabolic needs but also by individual aspi-rations and relative assessments of what people in a community are expected to achieve.
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but also from stigma.
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Dignity.
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beliefs are important elements influ-encing people’s choices, values and commitments.
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a consensus that human security would be considered, “The right of people to live in freedom and dignity, free from poverty and despair. All individuals, in particular vulnerable people, are entitled to freedom from fear and freedom from want, with an equal opportunity to enjoy all their rights and fully develop their human potential.”7
Definition of human security by the United Nations.
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Human security is about living free from want, free from fear and free from indignity.
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The chapter identifies the neglect of agency as a major blind spot and suggests making agency a central focus of atten-tion for decisionmakers.
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gency (the ability to hold values and make commitments, regardless of whether they advance one’s wellbeing, and to act ac-cordingly in making one’s own choices or in partici-pating in collective decisionmaking) lies at the core of this framework (figure 4)
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to systematically consider the interdependence across all people and between people and the planet.
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Digital technologies can help meet many of the Anthropocene challenges,
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It highlighted the close connection among security, de-velopment and the protection and empowerment of individuals and communities.
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has neglected our embedded-ness in nature
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we confront biodiversity losses and threats to key ecosystems, from tropical forests to the oceans
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have produced stark and grow-ing inequalities and destabilizing and dangerous planetary change.
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And the HDI, adjusted for Covid-19, had yet to recover about five years of progress, according to new simulations (figure 2
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the Anthropocene—a term pro-posed to describe the era in which humans have become central drivers of planetary change, radically altering the earth’s biosphere—people have good reason to feel inse-cure.
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China and the others need not lift a finger, one by one the fruits of history will fall into its basket, and the US system will crumble.
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All this – all this – will be made impossible by the West’s destructive energy, cold war philosophy, conversion to a kind of war economy, and total lack of positive Realpolitik vision in even a 20-year horizon.
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So the future ice-cold war in the world could be between the declining Occident and the rising Orient, to simplify.
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More hatred brings satisfaction, inward solidarity and strengthen the sense of shared values. And so who will be the next object of hate?
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it is futile to try to have a reasonably trusting relationship with the US, NATO and the EU after this
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Terrorist groups of various kinds will undoubtedly feel drawn; I imagine that the terrorist groups that Russia has helped to defeat in Syria will see Ukraine as a golden territory for revenge against Russians.
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a de facto war between NATO/EU and Russia.
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is to ensure that a war with Russia is fought on European soil, not US soil.
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It is called over-extension, and the economy, as in the old Soviet Union, will collapse under this burden.
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The US will impose itself militarily and politically on Europe to a perhaps unprecedented extent.
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the EU will blame the US for demanding that the EU impose these suffocating sanctions whose human consequences will only affect Europe, not the US.
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the focus is now 100% on strangling the Russian economy and effectively collapsing the country like the old Soviet Union.
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These poor, innocent people are victims of Western sanctions that were imposed without a time limit.
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Nazism could spread precisely because its supporters were seen as heroes in the fight against Russia.
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That way this hellishly complex conflict over decades with at least 50 parties can be reduced to issues of one person’s mental health.
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What kind of suffocating, very hard, broad, unconditional and unlimited sanctions like those the US and EU – not the UN – have decided can possibly be compatible with international law?
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It has broken the promises not to expand NATO an inch, made to Gorbachev in 1989-90. It has set up The Ballistic Missile Defence that deliberately undermines Russia’s ability to respond to a nuclear attack. It has waged war in Yugoslavia, treating both Russia and the UN and international law as inferior.
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The boomerangs will come back to us.
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“We are coming to get you!” – President Biden said in his State of the Union address.
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an orgiastic heat of self-righteousness.
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when this collective psychosis, this mass hysteria with a single focus, will end generations from now?
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they are being punished because they are Russian.
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Germany decides – again without analysis – to immediately rearm up to US$ 112 billion per year. Russia’s is US$ 66 billion!
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For example, Switzerland and China are working to create favourable conditions for smaller private-sector actors to access the digital market in order to avoid excessive market concentration
This could be an interesting 'entry point' as China is keen on supporting SMEs in digital realm. Last few years Chinese authorities were reducing power of big tech platforms (Alibaba, etc.). Thus, digital economy and SMEs including work of Geneva-based organisations (ITC, WTO, UNCTAD) could be an interesting angle for practical and impactful cooperation between China and Switzerland.
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International Geneva:
The main challenge is how to keep China interested in Geneva. Will Geneva remain global hub or mainly European or Euro-atlantic.
China can be vital partner in ensuring global coverage of Geneva as compared to other competitors (Singapore, Doha, Dubai).
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The inclusion of all stakeholders in their respective roles is essential for the development of this digital space.
This year China plans to run IGF China which is the major shift in Chinese digital policy. So far, China has ignored IGF as multistakeholder space.
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Security:The security and protection of digital networks are of utmost importance for Switzerland and its interna-tional standing. Switzerland is paying close attention to data security and protection with regard to the emergence of 5G technology and the Internet of Things
China is digital 'status quo' power. They managed to get, for them, ideal interplay between filtered local Internet (censorship via local tech giants) and participation in global Internet for economic and societal reasons (supply chains, link with big Chinese diaspora).
Apart from cyber-attacks targeting USA mainly for economic gains (economic espionage), China tends to play constructively on cybersecurity issues as 'status quo player'.
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for example to what extent the use of technology provided by Chinese firms could endanger Swiss companies’ proprietary knowledge or competitive advantage
It is important but bit 'retro' argument as China is now the biggest generator of IPR, including patents and trademarks. It is especially the case in the field of AI, quantum and other advanced technologies.
Thus, the framing will be less on China's previous practice of taking others' intellectual property but on 'others' gaining from Chinese intellectual property in AI and other related fields.
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If the West not only thwarts Moscow on Ukraine’s battlefields, but also does serious, lasting damage to Russia’s economy, it is in effect pushing a great power to the brink. Mr Putin might then turn to nuclear weapons.
The main challenge is to develop exit or face-saving options for Russia (not necessary for Putin). If it is not possible, use of nuclear weapons is becoming more realistic.
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that Putin now sees as “akin to a declaration of war”.
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Mr Putin may have misjudged Russia’s military capabilities, the effectiveness of the Ukrainian resistance and the scope and speed of the Western response, but one should never underestimate how ruthless great powers can be when they believe they are in dire straits.
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Russia demanded a written guarantee that Ukraine would never become a part of NATO and that the alliance remove the military assets it had deployed in eastern Europe since 1997.
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The article provide analysis of linkages between the IMF policy and the Ukraine crisis.
It frames the current war in the wider context of the IMF policy of economic conditionality.
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There’s a close intermingling of US foreign policy interests with the IMF.
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But capital must come in also to take control of the sources of raw materials. And in the case of Ukraine also take control over the land area. Capital would like to own the entire land of the planet.
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So, I think these countries are going to remain highly indebted and in that sense they would be like Greece. And forever there would be these measures of austerity which will be imposed on the people. That means they will be excluded from the benefits of these loans or whatever.
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Eastern Europe is a part of the latter.
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But there are other places where globalization takes the form not of supporting and sustaining and promoting the productive apparatus but rather the productive apparatus gets completely destroyed and of course people then start migrating.
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these are the countries to which a lot of the activities are shifting from the metropolis.
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Firstly, it slashed the gas subsidy by half. Therefore gas prices went up for the consumers. Secondly, you know there was a ban on the sale of land area in Ukraine to Big Capital, to foreigners and so on under Yanukovych. And that had been one of the things demanded by the IMF that the ban should go. And immediately when the government came in that ban went. So, you had the opening up of Ukraine, not just Ukrainian resources, but even land area to the penetration of foreign capital, foreign Big Capital.
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Prominently, the unwillingness of Yanukovych to cut government subsidies on Ukrainian gas provided to domestic consumers, so the Ukrainian people.
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And that is when Yanukovych, who was the President of Ukraine at that time said that, no, this is something which is not possible. So, at that point therefore, IMF ended up deciding that if the conditions are not being met in that case, it’s not going to provide any more loans to Ukraine. That’s when Yanukovych started negotiating with Russia.
This is new info.
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They cannot really pay back that kind of debt particularly when their productive apparatus is not really generating much.
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And that is something where again, you have the emergence of these oligarchs who simply appropriated state property as their own. Now, to some extent in Russia itself there was some check on it that was introduced after Boris Yeltsin left the scene.
End of Soviet economy was the biggest transfer of the wealth in the history.
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And as far as Russia is concerned, it was for a very long time during the Yeltsin period, virtually run by a group of persons from the United States. In fact, they surrounded Yeltsin and they were the main economic architects of that kind of collapse of the Soviet Union and of Russia.
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So this is really very different from the role that was originally envisaged for it under the Bretton Woods Agreement.
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So, so it actually started suggesting an alternative economic regime quite different from the economic regime that either Keynes or Harry Dexter White would have approved of.
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But all that was still within the regime.
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OK you may have balance of payments problems. A country can get into balance of payments problems. And some of these problems may not be easily solved. In such a case you would have to borrow from an organization and the IMF was meant to be such an organization.
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the government’s role in providing education, in providing healthcare, in providing employment, all this must actually be wound up.
As governments are loosing their role in health, education and other areas, it remains to be seen how responsibility of other actors will be introduced since we are speaking about 'social contract' functions.
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the government’s role in the economy on behalf of the people: that means the government’s role in providing subsidies and essential goods whose prices remain low;
this is longer tendency initiated by Von Misse, Austrian economist. Sometimes, this approach is framed as 'Geneva consensus' as it was developed between two wars in Geneva. It received full applications after the end of the Cold War. For details of the origins of the current approach to governance of economy you can see https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979529
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to create these enormous cleavages inside the society through its so-called investor-friendly policies.
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But what has happened in Russia is the growth of tremendous inequality.
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these oligarchic structures that blocked any path to a functioning democracy from the outset,
It is common for almost all transition economies. In transition states that joined EU, it was slightly corrected by the rule of law imposed by Brussels. But structurally speaking, role of oligarchs remains the same.
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This and absurd privatization attempts orchestrated by the West paved the way for an oligarchy that was initially hailed by the West as a “private solution” to the structural problem, but which proved fatal for the countries’ development chances.
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Probability in Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Origins of modern theory of probability that has been influencing modern AI.
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This digital experience tool wants to show you why people leave your site.
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rage clicks and thrashing mice?
Imiportant terminology
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Mouseflow does funnels. This shows you a visitor’s journey from page to page.
what is the journey of user at our website?
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It displays things like a visitor’s mouse movements, where they click, and how far down the page they scroll.
What does heatmpa software do?
- mouse movemnet
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Another tool fo heatmaps
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Dependence on Russian oil, gas and other raw materials weighs heavily geopolitically.
What is dependence on Russian oil?
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we can play the role of mediator.
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mobilize ourselves alongside the actors of global security policy in order to find solutions to this terrible conflict
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Russia has massively violated the prohibition on the use of force, a principle anchored in international law.
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Neutrality does not mean indifference.
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The Federal Council therefore adopted the EU sanctions in their entirety.
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Russian threats to hit NATO military aid convoys to Ukraine could drag in the neighbours and lead to major escalation involving Western forces.
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the White House is digging in for a long-term conflict to weaken and destabilise Russia, regardless of how ambitious or limited its war objectives.
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By demonising Putin as a “war criminal”, Washington made it clear that it will accept no compromise as long as the Russian leader rules over the Kremlin, and is ready to continue the fight against Russia until the last Ukrainian standing, alas.
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If the Communist Party’s objective was to take Chinese tech down a peg and neutralise a perceived rival power centre, it has succeeded in spades.
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if Mr Liu’s conciliatory message was intended to signal displeasure with the cac’s recent heavy-handedness, or instead to praise the agency for having done a good job.
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The agency declared that the “rectification” of large Chinese technology companies would soon come to a close.
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Human security does not entail the threat or the use of force or coercive measures. Human security does not replace State security;
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3. Agrees that human security is an approach to assist Member States in identifying and addressing widespread and cross-cutting challenges to the survival, livelihood and dignity of their people. Based on this, a common understanding on the notion of human security includes the following: (a) The right of people to live in freedom and dignity, free from poverty and despair. All individuals, in particular vulnerable people, are entitled to freedom from fear and freedom from want, with an equal opportunity to enjoy all their rights and fully develop their human potential;
Definition of human security
3. Agrees that human security is an approach to assist Member States in identifying and addressing widespread and cross-cutting challenges to the survival, livelihood and dignity of their people. Based on this, a common understanding on the notion of human security includes the following: (a) The right of people to live in freedom and dignity, free from poverty and despair. All individuals, in particular vulnerable people, are entitled to freedom from fear and freedom from want, with an equal opportunity to enjoy all their rights and fully develop their human potential;
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Description: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched last month a Special Report on Human Security. The report, entitled, “New threats to human security in the Anthropocene: Demanding greater solidarity” finds a development conundrum. Despite people on average living longer, healthier, and wealthier lives, these advances have not succeeded in increasing people’s sense of security.
Date: 17 March 2022 at 14.00 pm Venue: GCSP- Geneva Organisers: GCSP, UNDP
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Russia works on 'Polar Express' project as the shortest link across Euro-Asian land mass. The fiber optic cable will pass 12.650 km around Russian Artic sea coast.
'Polar Express' aim to support a few priorities of Russia:
- military activities in Artic space
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- making the shortest link for time-sensitive communication (e.g. stock-exchagnes).
Previous Finish project 'Megafon' failed in laying Internet cables across Artic region.
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a new, minimal, multistakeholder mechanism,
It is important to start this process/mechanisms as consultation process. However, one should be clear about very serious limitations due to geo-political nature of most of sanction issues.
Tech community should provide an input especially on the questions of risks for interoperable and integrated Internet. 'Sliding' into geo-politics would be extremely risky for the future of the Internet.
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the moral imperatives
It is always risky when we introduce 'moral considerations'. Apart from a few ones such as protection of human life and dignity, many other 'moral imperatives' could be (mis)interpreted diffierently.
I would be very prudent here and rely on international law which should be - anyway - 'minimum of morality' (UN Charter, Human rights instrumetns).
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unintended consequences or collateral damage.
A very noble and important principle which is difficult to achieve in reality. The reason is that it is difficult to have 'precision sanctions' in highly inter-twined society.
Most of sanctions work by increasing pressure on society that lead towards 'change of social contract' (population changing elite that cannot deliver on economy and societal stability.
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in the face of humanitarian crises.
It is not only humanitarian crisis. It is security and geo-political crisis with huge ramifications for the future of humanity.
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Hi Sorina. Shall we focus on this Forum.
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Breton pointed to the example of Galileo, the EU-sponsored navigation system that applied to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to access smartphone applications. However, the application was rejected “due to influence from other players.”
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identifying strategic areas for the EU agenda on the green and digital transitions, with chips certification and data standards explicitly mentioned as cases in point.
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that position has been challenged by American and Chinese companies, which have taken over the majority of votes even inside European standardisation organisations.
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to put standards at the heart of European economic success and societal progress,”
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can entail prohibitive costs, regulators worldwide have increasingly looked at the strategic nature of the standard-setting process.
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Industry standards allow companies to reduce the compliance costs with legislative requirements, for example, Wi-Fi frequencies, and enable the interoperability of products and services, such as the USB ports for laptops and charges.
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circleid.com circleid.com
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There were many views as to how long the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 would take, from an optimistic six-month rapid cutover to a hopelessly pessimistic view of a protracted ten-year transition.
||VladaR|| Here is an interesting system.
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A.Knowledge reuse and retention
Here is an important reveiw of the UN knowledge and reuse and retention policy.
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Figure1-Data, information, knowledge: conceptual differences
How to manage this hierarchy of data-information-knowledge
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establish norms and procedures for the retention and transfer of knowledge
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knowledge management skills and knowledge-sharingabilities in their respective staff performance appraisal systems
It is important action.
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should develop knowledge management strategiesand policies
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Severing ties with Russian network operators could still degrade data-intensive video services. Cogent generates a large share of its revenue by moving data for streaming-video customers like Netflix Inc.
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Cogent commands a powerful position as a network operator and estimates that at times it carries up to a quarter of the data crossing the global internet. It is among a small group of operators that handle unusually high volumes of international traffic.
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||dejand|| sent me this link. I like Kahneman's framing with System 1 (our daily thinking in solving problems - sort of mix of inertia and intuition) and System 2 (deep logical and analytical thinking).
This AI system tries to combine two. As soon as we get out of this 'daily tasks', analysis of this paper and approach could be an interesting framing of both our research and teaching on AI.
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On the other hand, current AI systems are very sensitive to edge cases, situations that they haven’t encountered during training.
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