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It undercut Cold War alliances and was inconsistent in its treatment of dictators. Critics felt that the president's policy undercuts allies such as Nicaragua. Others argued that by supporting dictators in South Korea and the Philippines, Carter was acting inconsistently. Carter's administration was further criticized when he announced that it planned to give up ownership of the Panama Canal
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Levada sociologist Karina Pipiya told BBC Russian: "There is growing nostalgia for the Soviet period and Stalin as a leader. Stalin is seen as the main figure who defeated fascism, who gets the honours for victory in the Great Patriotic War. And that war victory is a symbol of national pride for all Russians, even for those born in the post-Soviet period."
That positive opinion is boosted by current frustration over social policy and economic hardship, she said. Reform of the pension system ran into much opposition and "many felt the state was neglecting its social responsibilities".
The sharpest rise in support for Stalin is among the youngest group - those aged 18-30, she noted.
"Their perception of Stalin is based on myth, fed by older generations," she said.
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More than 4000 years ago, the Phoenicians settled on a territory that today belongs to Lebanon and part of it to Syria. They occupied a narrow strip of land between the Lebanese Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea, of approximately 25 miles wide and 125 miles long.
Despite of this apparent unfavorable condition, their coast was marked by a landscape suitable for ports at their main cities and their lands were filled with cedar trees, which provided the wood for their ships. Besides that, they stood at the main waypoint for commercial Asian caravans that traveled to trade with the big nations of the Mediterranean, like Greece and Thrace.
