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President of Estonia Toomas H. Ilves discussed the relationships between the EU and NATO, and between Estonia and the Soviet Union yesterday at the Harvard Kennedy School...
...response to a question about why history textbooks in Estonia portray the relationship with the Soviet Union in a negative light, Ilves said he doesn’t “think there’s anything wrong with hating the Soviet Union...
...then drew a distinction between the Soviet Union and Russia by paralleling the differences between the two nations to the differences between Nazi Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany...
Likewise, Russia and Eastern Europe offer potential. Russia has arable land and an aging Soviet fleet of farm equipment, and the government has put a priority on being self-sufficient in food and agriculture. The recession has made financing hard to come by in the region, but "Deere is planting the seeds for when the markets normalize," says Lawrence De Maria, an analyst at the New York brokerage firm Sterne Agee. Still, De Maria adds, "it's sticking with assembly factories for now so that if they had to pick up and leave, it wouldn't kill the shareholders...
...problems extend to the construction of the facilities. Sochi is known primarily as a sleepy beach resort on the Black Sea, not a skiing village. So not only will the Russians have to revamp much of the decaying Soviet infrastructure in the area - everything from roads to power lines - but they must also build six stadiums from scratch, along with an elaborate sports complex in the mountains outside the city. (See a TIME postcard from Sochi...