Despite concerns over the Ukraine crisis prolonging and inflationary pressures at home, Putin’s approval rating[15] hovers over 80 per cent. As with most countries, it’s about the economy; life and living standards have improved drastically over the last 25 years. Most Russians would not trade this away for the instability and crises of the Yel

On the evening of December 31, 1999, few in Russia knew what its first president was going to say in a recorded televised speech. The country, which was still in the financial doldrums because of its debt default, watched as Boris Yeltsin resigned. “We are creating a vital precedent of a civilized and voluntary transfer of presidential power to a

First, both cities should be incorporated into the negotiating process, because they have the potential of being affected directly or indirectly by the future ‘area of shared prosperity’ in the Campo de Gibraltar part of the Strait.[20] Indeed, Brexit has already had a positive economic impact on Ceuta. There are mechanisms envisaged in the Tre

Together with this trading issue, there is Morocco’s ever greater difficulty involving the small-scale crossing of people between the cities and their Moroccan surroundings. The practice of the porteadoras (literally ‘copyright women’) in the so-called ‘atypical trade’ was an ignominious slippery slope that needed to be eliminated. Howeve

It is a matter of foregrounding the twofold membership of Spain –and by extension its autonomous cities– of the two foremost international organisations in Europe for democratic principles and values: the EU and the Council of Europe. Both have immense legal systems in operation, in the case of the EU, stemming from the process of European inte