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◆On the cover
Russia's new president, Dmitry Medvedev, faces an unpalatable legacy



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◆The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

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◆Leaders
Russia
Russia's uneasy handover
The Kurdish conundrum
Avoid that quagmire
Obamanomics
Hope and fear
Fund management
Trillion-dollar baby
The potato
Spud we like

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◆Letters
On farming, Barack Obama, Russia, religion, air tankers

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◆Special Report
Russia's economy
Smoke and mirrors

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◆United States
Obamanomics
Dr Obama's patent economic medicine
Health care
Running for cover
Polls
Obama by one. No, ten. No, five
The campaign trail
Primary colour
Religion
Brand disloyalty
Ethanol and water
Don't mix
The beef business
Cows down
John McCain's obstacles
No country for old men
Lexington
The Buckley effect

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◆The Americas
Canada and the United States
A fence in the north, too
Cuba
Young blood
Venezuela
Propaganda, not policy
Peru
Llamas and mash
Colombia's hostages

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◆Asia
Indian politics
Beginning the long goodbye
Romantic fiction in India
Sari-rippers
South Korea's new president
Chilly welcome
Thailand
Thaksin comes home
Pakistan
Coming to terms
Animal rights in China
A small voice calling

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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
Simba Makoni is getting up steam
Kenya
A peace deal at last
Cameroon
Another president who won't go
The Kurds
Turkey invades northern Iraq
Morocco
It isn't funny
Nigeria
It all looks horribly the same

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◆Europe
Serbia
The road of discontent
Cyprus
A Communist to the rescue
Russia's new president
The name's Dmitry
Chechnya and the north Caucasus
And they call it peace
German politics
On death and dying
Spain's election
Spanish customs
Charlemagne
Winners and losers

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◆Britain
Private education
Is it worth it?
Child abuse in Jersey
Not seen, not heard
British airports
BAA's double-whammy
The DNA database
Big, bigger, biggest

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◆International
America, Europe and the management of danger
A hazardous comparison
Nuclear proliferation
Why not just blow your whistle?
Torture and deportation
The ban stays absolute
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◆Business
Business and the environment
From geeks to greens
Health care
The bleeding edge
Video games
Attempted carjack
Business in China
On the fake take
Fashion in New Zealand
Kiwis on the catwalk
Business in France
Not so exceptional
Coal mining in Germany
Small earthquake in Saarland...
Face value
The figures man
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◆Special Report
Business in South-East Asia
The tigers that lost their roar

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◆Finance & Economics
Foreclosures in America
Searching for Plan B
Monetary policy
Oceans apart
Buttonwood
Structural fault
Standard Chartered
The decoupled bank
Bank of Japan
Mood swings over Muto
Risk management
Next year's model?
Economics focus
In the stocks

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◆Science & Technology
Antidepressants
Hope from a pill
Diagnostics
Winds of change
Forensic science
Telltale hairs
Sea gliders
Run silent, run green

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◆Books & Arts
Cultural diplomacy
Soft power and a rapturous ovation
The human brain
What a piece of work
The Bush legacy
War horse
John Milton
Heavenly muse
History of the potato
Wonder-food

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◆Obituary
Baba Amte

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The brain drain
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Patent filings