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Το θέμα των τοπωνυμιών, το οποίο έχει γίνει εμπόδιο στην κυκλοφορία εκατοντάδων χιλιάδων μεταναστών παραμένει σε ένα κρίσιμο σταυροδρόμι.

Η επίλυση αυτού του αδιέξοδου,  μοιάζει να τελειώνει με την καταφυγή στις διεθνείς συμβάσεις.

Food banks are booming even in Britain's most affluent areas

In wealthy towns, families hit by falling incomes and benefit cuts are increasingly being forced to rely on charity handouts

 

Archbishop Vincent Nichols, who criticised the cuts, is made a cardinal at the Vatican Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

 

Volunteers have sounded the alarm over a growing reliance on food banks in one of the richest areas in Britain.

Don't get too excited about Yulia Tymoshenko: in both Ukraine and Syria, no one is speaking for the people

By Kate Maltby  

A poster of Tymoshenko in Kiev (Photo: AP)

Last month I met Ahmad Tu'mah, the Interim Prime Minister of Syria – that is to say, the leader in exile of the rebels’ international Syrian National Coalition, the holder of a mythical title in an imaginary state. As I watch crowds gather for a glimpse of Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister of the Ukraine, one of Tu’mah’s sentences strikes me. He’d been asked about the Russian-brokered deal to neutralize Assad’s chemical weapons. He snorted at the idea that Russia could be a partner for peace. “That dirty deal is so morally corrupt”, he said, “that its only logical conclusion is that Assad will win the Nobel peace prize”.

Analysts touting Ukraine's East-West division are just plain wrong.

Throughout the crisis in Ukraine, experts real and imagined have persistently invoked the country's vaunted East-West "divide." According to this interpretation, Ukraine is neatly divided into two homogeneous, coherent, and irreconcilable blocs. The implicit message is that partition is inevitable and desirable. As Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev for the pro-Russian and "separatist" Kharkiv on Feb. 22, analysts feared he would ignite a civil war between Ukraine's irreconcilable factions. But as is often the case with such binary oppositions, they conceal and obfuscate more than they reveal and clarify, creating a simplistic image of a complex condition.