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For the WTO to seize the mantle of global trade promotion, it must actually commit itself to promoting free trade.

The glorious revolution that swept through Russia 20 years ago ushered in a new political system, changing the country's economic foundation while creating a new state: post-imperial Russia. Where did it all go? What happened to the noble fervor, the moral clarity, the thirst for truth, the heroism?

The Bush administration said the main goal of the president's visit to Georgia was to acknowledge and encourage the young democracy. Just 18 months after the Rose Revolution toppled the entrenched government of Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgia has inspired similar peaceful uprisings in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.

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On May 13, Uzbek troops opened fire on protesters in the Ferghana Valley city of Andijon, killing several hundred civilians. The crackdown marks the latest escalation in the repressive rule of President Islam Karimov, who—despite longstanding criticisms of his human rights record—has positioned himself as a U.S. ally in the...

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On May 13, Uzbek troops opened fire on protesters in the Ferghana Valley city of Andijon, killing several hundred civilians. The crackdown marks the latest escalation in the repressive rule of President Islam Karimov, who—despite longstanding criticisms of...

WHAT WAS "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century"? The rise of Nazi Germany? The spread of genocide as a tool of state power? Some might say it was the crushing of a host of nations by the totalitarian Soviet Union, at the cost of millions of lives. But not Russian President Vladimir Putin. For him, the greatest catastrophe was not the Soviet Union's rise but its collapse -- an event that freed 14 of those nations, from Latvia to Kyrgyzstan, from Moscow's domination. "The old ideals were destroyed," Mr. Putin lamented during his annual state-of-Russia address on Monday.