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Arab spring News : Feb 27, 2012

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Russia rising inspired by Arab Spring, says jailed dissident
Sydney Morning Herald
THE Arab Spring has inspired Russians to stand up to Vladimir Putin and sweeping political change is possible if voters reject him at the ballot box in next weekend’s presidential elections, says jailed opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Sydney Morning Herald
Israel Meets the Arab Spring (Cont’d)
The Atlantic
By Robert Wright Fadi Quran, the Palestinian activist whose arrest I wrote about on Friday, had his day in court today. It didn’t go as well as I had hoped (and predicted). Here is part of an email I got this morning from Assaf Sharon, an Israeli human
ITU supremo offers top tips on thwarting next Arab Spring
Register
By Bill Ray • Get more from this author MWC 2012 The International Telecommunication Union’s general secretary reckons the Arab Spring spate of revolutions is pretty much over, except possibly in Syria, and to keep it that way we need better-connected
Jordan: tourism loses USD1 billion after Arab spring
Ammon News
One year into the first spark of the Arab spring, Jordan stands amongst the countries to have suffered from lack of interest among European and other western tourists. Speaking during a visit to the rock engraved cit of Petra, Tourism minister Nayyef

Ammon News
How the Arab Spring has Transformed Journalism
Egypt Unplugged
Regarding the number of revolutions erupting around the Middle East, he credited the rise of the Internet with helping to inspire the Arab Springthrough introducing young people throughout the Middle East to an explosion of democratic concepts.

Egypt Unplugged
Russia ready to work with Arab Spring leaders – Putin
The Voice of Russia
Russian PM Vladimir Putin believes that the almost simultaneous events of the so-called Arab Spring were encouraged to a certain extent by someone’s interest in a re-division of the commercial markets rather than a concern for human rights.

The Voice of Russia
Has the West got hegemonistic ambitions in Syria?
News24
This by the way was said at a “friends of Syria” summit or conference in Tunisia,indecently where the Arab Spring all started. Neither Russia nor China had any of their “bigwigs” represented at that gathering. Both Western and Arab leaders calls what’s
Is Sub Sahara Africa due for an ‘Arab Spring ‘?
The Statesman Online
What is now popularly termed the ‘Arab Spring‘ is indeed an ‘African Spring’ in the sense that it started in Tunisia spreading through Egypt, Libya all in Africa and then also to parts of the Middle East. So far though, it’s only in Africa that the
Arab Spring brings gold-buying rush to a halt
The National
Remittances to the Arab Spring countries have increased significantly from the Gulf countries, said Ashwin Shetty, the head of global treasury operations at UAE Exchange in Abu Dhabi. “The depreciation in currencies of those countries has caused a

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