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Radio 4,05 Jun 2014,30 mins

The Education Minister's Watch

From Our Own Correspondent

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Looking behind the headlines: the new patriotic conservative mood in Russia - it's making the country's beleaguered opposition feel it's under siege; the Thai military which has seized control of the country promises increased prosperity but warns protestors to keep quiet; the Nigerian authorities try to improve educational facilities in the north as the insurgency by Boko Haram gathers pace; education's under discussion in Mexico too - the president's decreed there must be improvements and the politicians in the United States who're not tightening up the firearms laws, they're GIVING guns away!

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