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China’s Walt Disney
Syriza hits the ground running,
backwards
Teachers can be a class act
Arctic life comes out of the freezer
FEBRUARY
14TH
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20TH 2015
Economist.com
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Putin’s
war on
the West
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The world this week
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Leaders
View from the Kremlin
Putin’s war on the West
Global imbalances
American shopper
Greece and the euro
Hitting the ground
running—backwards
Teacher recruitment
Those who can
China’s army
Lifting the veil
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Asia
Indian politics
A new opposition
Politics in Australia
Abbott survives, just
American forces in Japan
Trouble at the bases
Vietnam’s migrant
labourers
Working abroad
Animals in Vietnam
Pet soup
Banyan
Malaysia’s dark side
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February 14th 2015
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On the cover
It is time to recognise the
gravity of the Russian threat,
and to muster the resolve to
counter it: leader, page 9.
Russia’s aggressions in
Ukraine are part of a broader,
and more dangerous,
confrontation with the West,
pages 19-22. Who backs Putin,
and why, page 21. The film
that has outraged Russia,
page 73. Britain’s strategic
ambition has fallen even
lower than its defence budget,
page 49. How businesses
linked to blacklisted oligarchs
avoid Western sanctions,
page 59. Europe worries
about warm Hungarian-
Russian ties, page 47
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Venezuela
Mismanagement,
corruption and the oil slump
are fraying Hugo Chavez’s
regime, page 31
Letters
14 On meritocracy, Aquinas,
suicide, state pensions,
cancer, Greece, hyenas,
cannabis
Briefing
19 What Russia wants
From cold war to hot war
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Russia’s European friends
In the Kremlin’s pocket
United States
Private schools
Pro-choice Republicans
Cigarette smuggling
Nannies v Al Capone
The economy
At last, a proper recovery
Farm subsidies
Milking taxpayers
Presidential power
A law for limited war
Gay marriage
Now in Alabama
Bondage at the box office
All tied up in the Bible belt
Lexington
David Axelrod meets reality
The Americas
Venezuela
The revolution at bay
Bello
Whose oil in Brazil?
Colombian flower growers
Peso power
Electoral reform in Chile
Tie breaker
China
39 Military corruption
Cleaning up
40 Film
Unusual talent
40 China’s economy
The new-year effect
Middle East and Africa
Arab media
Flowering, then withering
Israeli politics
Battling in print
Palestine’s cuisine
The king of cauliflowers
South African tourism
Killing the golden goose
Chad and Senegal
A pan-African trial, at last
Nigeria
Counting votes before they
are cast
Europe
The German economy
Not enough investment
Turkey and its Kurds
Dreams of self-rule
Hungary and Russia
Viktor and Vladimir
The DSK trial
Bad days in Lille
Charlemagne
Frans Timmermans,
Europe’s Dr No
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The People’s Liberation Army
Xi Jinping is bringing a corrupt
army to heel. Now he must
make it behave responsibly:
leader,
page 12. Rooting out
corruption
is only the start of
attempts to modernise the
PLA, page 39
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Teachers
How to turn teaching
into a job that attracts
high-flyers: leader, page 11.
Programmes that place the
best graduates in poor schools
are spreading around the
world. They show what it takes
to make a difference, page 53.
Why are countries failing so
badly at teaching English?
Page 54. In America Republicans
are resurgent, so school
vouchers are back, page 23
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February 14th 2015
Britain
49 Foreign policy
Muscle memory
50 Tax evasion
Hiding Sir’s Black Cash
52 Bagehot
The Milibandwagon
International
53 Teacher recruitment
High-flyers in the
classroom
54 Teaching English
The mute leading the mute
Business
Dalian Wanda
It’s a Wanda-ful life
Fashion designers
Strutting their stuff
Crowdfunding
The stars are the limit
Sanctions against Russia
Fancy footwork
Schumpeter
Authorpreneurship
Finance and economics
The Greek crisis
Smoking out firebrands
Buttonwood
Hot property
Private equity and energy
Refilling the pipeline
India’s economy
On the dragon’s tail
Zimbabwe’s economy
Nothing for money
American wealth
management
Survival of the least fit
Inequality in Japan
The secure v the poor
Free exchange
The problem with
price-match guarantees
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China’s Walt Disney
The country’s biggest property
tycoon wants to become an
entertainment colossus,
page 55
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Science and technology
The Arctic Ocean
Awakening
Satellites
Tough old birds
Oceanography
Acid test for the high seas
The evolution of violins
Making sweet music
Holographic movies
The end of a tunnel
Books and arts
”Leviathan”
Russia’s Book of Job
The origins of money
Means of exchange
T.S. Eliot
Time present and time past
T.E. Lawrence
Enigmatic mystery
Love songs
My funny Valentine
Race in the theatre
Grey area
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The Arctic Ocean
Earth’s
northernmost sea is stirring.
The consequences are both
good and bad, page 69. The
latest XPRIZE is for a better
way of monitoring the ocean’s
acidity, page 71
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Greece
Unless Syriza changes
course, Greece is heading out
of the euro: leader, page 11.
Greece’s government must
satisfy its voters as well as its
creditors, page 63
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