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Margaret Thatcher: Freedom fighter
Now especially, the world needs to hold fast to Margaret Thatcher’s principles502
Daily chart: Capitalism makes you happy*
Suicide rates in Europe since 199072
Underwater networking: Captain Nemo goes online
Networking: Emerging undersea data networks are connecting submarines, aquatic drones and other denizens of the deep2
Georgia’s history: Bad location
Despite its unhappy history and dire geography, Georgia is doing well6
The Economist: Digital highlights, November 10th 2012
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The Sovietisation of eastern Europe: Crafting the Iron Curtain
Anne Applebaum, author of a new book about post-war life in eastern Europe, explains how the Soviet Union imposed its control over the region21
Barack Obama's economic agenda: A little history lesson
National Review, the conservative magazine, needs one113
Olympic gymnastics: Jump, jump, jump
A celebration of national diversity at the Olympic gymnastics28
Ageing Olympic gymnasts: How the gym twiglets grew up
Women gymnasts are getting older: that's good news for the sport13
Daily chart Olympics: Piling up the prizes
How many athletes does it take to win a medal?98
Mapping the world's Jewish population and migration patterns277
The Paycheck Fairness Act: Protecting individual rights is not Stalinist
And Rand Paul should know that576
Iran and the bomb: Nuclear standoffs
The cold war was even more terrifying than it seemd at the time28
Russia: The long life of Homo sovieticus
This week’s elections and upheavals in Russia show how hard it is, 20 years after the system collapsed, for the country to put away its Soviet past132
Finland and American intelligence: Secret history
How close were Finnish-American relations in the Cold War5
The collapse of the Soviet Union: Russia’s imperial agony
The cost of the Soviet collapse has been huge and ongoing85
Quick study: George Kennan’s cold war policy of containment: A conversation with Kennan's biographer
Containment stopped the cold war from becoming a hot one16
As foreign forces draw down, Afghans need to know the foreign commitment does not52
Afghanistan’s interminable war: Looking for the exit
A bleak but authoritative assessment of foreign intervention18
History of diplomacy: Dealing with the enemy
George Kennan invented the American post-war policy of “containment” of the Soviet Union. His biography, 30 years in the making, fills in the detail14
"Tinker Tailor" unpicked: Why spy?: le Carré's work on screen
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy infuriates and delights9
Reviving the Soviet Union: When dinosaurs dance
Hardline Canadian communists host Soviet revivalists78
The mood of Russia: Time to shove off
The Soviet Union was undermined by stagnation and a sense of hopelessness. Is the same thing happening again?137
20 years of Baltic independence: Home but not dry
Thoughts on the anniversary of August 1991 when the Baltic states regained their independence105
The Economist: Digital highlights, August 20th 2011
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