22 marzo, 2024
por Felipe Sahagún
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–‘New climate reality’ stretches global freshwater supply
-US housing market belatedly wakes up to flood risk
–Climate change puts pressure on Kenya’s water resources
–Wave of innovation aims to make desalination sustainable
–Space agencies race to find water on the moon
–Climate investors see growing opportunities in water tech
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21 marzo, 2024
por Felipe Sahagún
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Prof. Robert Service, Siyurce: Hoover, v @Georgia Today, RFE/RL
Robert Service, one of the UK’s foremost Russian History specialists, biographer of Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Tsar Nicholas II, and chronicler of Putin’s first 20 years of rule, sat down with Radio Free Europe/RL’s Georgian Service to talk about the force that is Putin.
You write that Russia’s past is like putty in Putin’s hands – he shapes it as is his wont. But what about its future?
Anybody who tells us that they know what the future is, is a fool. Who could have said in 1916 the future of Russia for the next 70 odd years would lie with the communists?
It’s definitely a more brittle future. The very fact that Putin has manipulated the Constitution and distorted the politics and impose extreme authoritarian rule, and personalized it all to such an extreme degree, means that he is exposing himself to the possibility of different methods being used to get rid of him: An explosion of popular discontent or an eruption of elite discontent, both of these are possibilities created by personalizing his dominance.
21 marzo, 2024
por Felipe Sahagún
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20 marzo, 2024
por Felipe Sahagún
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In this issue of the World Happiness Report we focus on the happiness of people at different stages of life. In the seven ages of man in Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the later stages of life are portrayed as deeply depressing. But happiness research shows a more nuanced picture, and one that is changing over time. We encourage you to explore the 2024 report for the latest findings on the happiness of the world’s young, the old – and everyone in between.
19 marzo, 2024
por Felipe Sahagún
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Gen. Laura J. Richardson, Commander of US Southern Command, discusses her vision for US security partnership with Latin America and the Caribbean.
19 marzo, 2024
por Felipe Sahagún
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19 de marzo de 2024
Putin feels domestically quite stable. That’s true politically. It’s also true economically. The Russian economy is not performing well. The growth we’re seeing in the Russian economy is because of the war economy, which is a massive piece of what the economy represents today. But they’re losing lots of human capital.
Diálogo «Por qué los postimperios euroasiáticos desafían el orden mundial» con @MiraMilosevich1 @RobinNiblett y Tom Burns Marañón
Jueves 21 de marzo a las 19h
La desintegración de los imperios genera tensiones en dos direcciones: los vecinos aprovechan la debilidad del imperio y la potencia en decadencia trata de restablecer su autoridad en la frontera. Ambos procesos ocurren en Rusia. Por @MiraMilosevich1
“#Putin is Slipping” – Prof. Robert Service on Putin and #Russia’s Future @GeorgiaToday_GT
Although a plurality of young Russians say they are anxious about Russia’s political future, few vote or participate politically.
Experiencing no leader other than President Vladimir Putin, Russians between the ages of 18–34 are described as being “raised on a diet of political indifference” and, at least at this point, seem unlikely to redirect Russia’s political future. A just-completed Chicago Council on Global Affairs-Levada Center survey of Russia’s youth population finds a generation that is largely positive about their own lives and career prospects but apathetic about participating in the political life of their country.