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MIDDLE-EAST (Dialogue): Arab League - A comprehensive Study

• The Arab League officially called the League of Arab States, is a regional organisation of Arab states.
  

MIDDLE-EAST (Dialogue): Arab Spring

• The series of protests and demonstrations across the Middle East and North Africa has become known as the "Arab Spring", and sometimes as the "Arab Spring and Winter", "Arab Awakening" or "Arab Uprisings" even though not all the participants in the protests are Arab.

  • To date, there have been revolutions in Tunisiaand Egypt; a civil war in Libya resulting in the fall of its government; civil uprisings in Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen, the latter resulting in the resignation of the Yemeni prime minister; major protests in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan,

EURO-RUSSIA: (Dialogue)

Mood shift in Russia

• The winds of change blowing in the Arab East appear to have reached Russia. The ruling United Russia party has suffered big losses in Sunday's parliamentary elections in a sign of dramatic shifts in the public mood in Russian society.
• United Russia polled just under 50 per cent of the popular vote, almost 15 percentage points lower than it did four years ago. It will still occupy more than half the seats in the 450-member State Duma