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Simeon Mitropolitski is a Canadian analyst, of Bulgarian origin, and a former syndicated columnist with the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA). He is the author of several hundred articles dealing with hot political and economic topics, both national and international.
He was part of the first group of Bulgarian intellectuals and students that began the opposition movement that finally put an end to the communist regime in this country in 1989, and in 1996-1997 participated in international observation teams during the elections in several Balkan countries - Romania, Albania and Bulgaria.
In 2002 Simeon and his family moved from Bulgaria to Canada where they live now in Montreal, province of Quebec. Simeon is a Master of Political Science from McGill University and a B.A. of Political Science and History.
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Qatar: Small lab for great projects
 Qatar plays important role as a reliable ally to the United States in the Persian Gulf. Its significance surpasses by far its small size, population and even its oil reserves. It's a living lab for new political and economic strategies. When the West looks for Middle East countries to transfer its liberal ideas and values, Qatar comes in mind among the first names. The future of the reforms in this tiny state will show the validity of the claims about the universality of the western political and economic values. When it comes to determine the geopolitical position and leaning of Qatar, many events come to help us, showing its clear pro-American stand. First, it's one of the few Arab and Muslim countries in the world to have maintained any kind of official relations with Israel. Second, it's one of the few Arab and predominantly Muslim countries in the world to listen to the Western suggestions in the field of political and economic reforms. There isn't official censorship on the news and Qatar is a home of the Pan-Arabic TV channel Al-Jazeera. The country also is in a minority in the region for not to link the matter of domestic democratization with the solution of the Arab-Israel conflict. Third, the recent scandal between Qatar and Russia shows that this country can stand for itself against some external pressure coming from powers outside the Western world. This scandal involves two Russian citizens accused to have assassinated on its soil the former Chechen leader Yandarbiyev. Forth, there are strong beliefs that the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is kept in secret in an American base in Qatar. Qatar is always to help its Western friends in promoting their liberal ideas. It has done so recently when nobody in the world wanted to organize the WTO international conference. Together with Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, it launched 18 months ago a customs union with a view by 2005 to become a monetary union and by 2007 to grow into fully functioning common market. The small country is already preparing to host the 2006 Asian Games, expecting to welcome almost 200,000 spectators, athletes and officials. To be ready for the task, the construction sector is working already on highest gear, pushed up by domestic and international demand. New direction on the real estate market is to push ahead with larger developments, made exclusively for foreign investors, big and small. First major residential and commercial development of such kind, the Pearl of the Gulf, will welcome its 30,000 residents by 2006. It will be built upon reclaimed land from the sea. The complex of 7,600 homes with commercial facilities will be situated close to the West Bay Lagoon area of the capital Doha. The international investors will be offered full ownership together with residency rights.
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See also the directory of companies providing real estate services in, and general real estate information of Qatar.
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