The Belarussian president's strident anti-western language does not chime with Mr Putin's tough but friendly approach.
People with Down syndrome are not flying planes across the globe to hang out over pu-erh and discuss the finer points of Western culture in a language all their own.
He claimed that there was a risk it could assume an international identity very similar to its main Western competitors, pointing out that al-Jazeera's English-language website relied heavily on Western news agencies.
Of course, in Western political science, "election language" is often some distance from "'governing actions"...
Just as the Galapagos Islands is a unique biological ecosystem evolved in the absence of continental species, gongkai is a unique innovation ecosystem evolved with little western influence, thanks to political, language, and cultural isolation.
Scots Gaelic, really only still spoken as a native language in a few of the Western Islands.
Boko Haram, which means "Western education is sacrilege" in the Hausa language of Nigeria's north, has said it wants its imprisoned members freed and Nigeria to adopt strict Shariah law across the multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people.
Derision was their weapon, language and arts their hunting ground and Western Civilization their prey.
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While she cannot actually type, the 26-year-old western lowland gorilla is fluent in modified American sign language.
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Staffed by locals and Turks alike, the schools are patronised by the offspring of elites lured by Western standards of education (if not mandatory Turkish-language classes).
Mumbai is the glittering epicentre of India's gargantuan Hindi-language film industry, and they are often looking for Western extras.
Cercles celtiques (song, dance and language societies) are common and almost every town in western Brittany has a bagad.
Playing the anti-Russian card is one of his favourite ways of wooing public opinion in western Ukraine, where there is little love of Russia or its language.
When Mr Saakashvili called Mr Putin to complain and point out that the West supported Georgian integrity, Mr Putin, who favours earthy language, is said to have told him to stick Western statements up his backside.
For Western companies China can be a difficult market to crack due to its language barrier and inherently private culture.
Through my own experience as an Asian living in a western world, I came to truly understand what poor new immigrants face when confronted by a completely different culture and language.
He bequeathed to his son two precious gifts: a love of language, and a passion for the raw materials of life and industry timber, such as western red cedar, metals, stones and minerals.
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The new president's earlier calls made while he was still at the Constitutional Court for lifting curbs on free expression, and on broadcasting and education in the Kurdish language, also made the generals frown, though they simultaneously brought nods of approval from Turkey's western friends.
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