In the past, the Kremlin has discredited the idea of global warming as international media hype. ++ Russia’s ruling elite has regarded the climate debate as nothing more than “an invention of the West to bring Russia to its knees.” ++ The current heat wave forces Russia’s rulers to rethink. ++ Even President Medvedev now admits that a link between global warming and the
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The annual Science Congress 2009 has taken place in India, following a tradition which started in 1967 and projected technology as the means through which to achieve greater ‘’social, gender and economic equality.” ++ Indeed, in the northeast region of India, where rich bio-resource exploitation is impaired by poverty and unemployment, development may depend on technological progress. ++
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