Confinement in Yang--Mills: Elements of a Big Picture

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We present a nontechnical review of the current understanding of the phenomenon of color confinement.

• The emphasis is put on recent advances.
• This is a combined and slightly expanded version of talks delivered at 14th International QCD Conference "QCD 08," 7-12th July 2008, Montpellier, France, the International Conference "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum," Mainz, Germany, September 1-6, 2008 (Confinement 08), and the International Conference "Approaches to Quantum Chromodynamics," Oberwoelz, Austria, September 7-13, 2008.