The Italian coast guard rescued almost 6,000 refugees from the Mediterranean last week. There does not seem to be any let up at all in the flow of migrants. Fortunately, the EU has decided not to abandon the refugees, although the EU still has not addressed the issue of what happens to asylum seekers in each European country.
Britain will hold general elections on 7 May and the two favorites, the Tory David Cameron and Labor’s Ed Miliband, are making an all-out effort to win the election. The election will be an important one as the fate of Britain’s role in the European Union seems to be the backdrop of many of the debates. Britain, like most other developed countries, is experiencing an significant widening of the gap between rich and poor, and that issue also pervades many of the discussions.
The Soviet Union employed a strategy called “Russification” in order to unite the many disparate nations comprising the Soviet Union. The process involved moving Russians into the many regions of the Socialist Republics in order to ensure loyalty to Moscow. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, however, these Russian speaking populations often do not share national loyalties to the newly independent states. These Russian speaking populations have created the problems in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. They are potentially a problem in the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. And the are surfacing as a problem in Kazakhstan.
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