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While the people of Egypt suffer from growing poverty and unemployment rates, the country’s generals are well off. They have managed to strengthen their economic power in the aftermath of the revolution. […] While privately owned companies struggle under the burden of overall chaos and political insecurity, the army appears to have been unaffected. According to some observers, the army is indeed profiting from the crisis. Over the past months, the government in Cairo has commissioned construction companies operated by the military to carry out several large infrastructure projects. In November, Interim President Adly Mansour had issued a decree allowing...

At a recent forum sponsored by the newspaper "Vedomosty" and the "Bazovy Element" company, there was unanimous agreement that Russian higher education is unable to meet the market's contemporary requirements in skilled specialists. The proposed answer: "the quality of education could be enhanced, and it could be turned into an instrument for promoting the social status of the most gifted and industrious people," ONLY by means of cooperation between the business circles, the state, and the higher schools themselves. It sounds to me like somebody or somebodies in Russia want to go the fopro route. According to the Dean of...