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| Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Iran; Supreme Leader, most powerful Iranian policy maker (President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) |
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| Nicolas Sarkozy, France; Economic policies focused on internal, reduce public sector, reduce labor market rigidities |
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| Putin, Russia, Prime Minister; Jan 08, dissolved Russian Senate (Duma), Chose Dimitri Medev as successor, Transferred powers to Prime Minister, Russia-Georgian war (President Mikheil Saakashvili) |
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Pervez Musharra, Pakistan, President
Assumed under military coupe; suspended constitution, jailed justices when Supreme Court about to decide on validity of re-election two largest political parties, the Pakistan People's party and Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) |
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| Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia, President |
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Jacob Zuma, South Africa, President, tentative
Charges of fraud, corruption, money-laundering, racketeering, alliances with South African Communist Party & Congress of South African Trade Unions, potentially more open than Mbeki |
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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigeria, President
Comprehensive peace deal for the Niger Delta to reduce milita violence and boost crude oil exports, revamp dilapidated social infrastructure by providing jobs for youth, work with regional powers to prevent expansion of US bases in Africa |
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| Mayawati Kumari, Brought Bahujan Samaj Party, representing the Dalits, "untouchables," to national stage |
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| Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazi, Faced with $22 billion loss in revenue, attempting to cut expenditure to revive country to investment grade status soon |
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Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan
Rush of foreign investment to previously isolated Central Asian country may make an important regional energy player |
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| Current domestic state security agency of the Russian Federation (Federal Security Service ) |
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| Israeli counterintelligence and internal security service |
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| Israeli's elite force (equiv. US Delta force) |
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