Eric Reguly has an extensive piece on the shifting fortunes of the fortunate in today’s Globe and Mail: Mr. Prokhorov loves basketball and played well. He made almost half of his foul shots and graciously avoided using his height and skills ...
Today there was a notable exchange between PM Vladimir Putin and EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso, when the latter raised his concerns over the murder of Stanislav Markelov and other notable human rights abuses occurring in Russia. ...
Thy tongue – thine enemy Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. For starters, a joke. A man comes to a rabbi: “Rebbe, I’m a Jew, but I don’t know the langua...
Now this is just plain mean … and will no doubt hurt Hugo’s feelings. It is amusing how the diplomat is practically blaming Venezuela for initiating the deals. From El Universal: Russia’s ambassador to Spain Alexander Kuzne...
This comes from Sigrid Rausing in the New Statesman: My book on the collective farm was published in 2004. In it I predicted that the culture of memorials would take off: prison camps would be turned into museums, books would be written, docu...
On the heels of an announcement that Kosovo has hired the advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi to improve the country’s international image (for $7.3 million), the new nation has taken care of another essential task: jumpstarting its...
Sure, Bakiyev went to Moscow and picked up a couple of billion dollars to close the U.S. airbase, but one can see how the decision was made easier. From the Associated Press: The Manas base is the only U.S. toehold in strategic Central Asia,...
Reuters has a story today about one of those international approval rating polls, in which respondents say whether each given country has a “positive” or “negative” impact on the world. The latest is that America̵...
A friend told us about this amusing/frightening story broadcast yesterday on Canada’s CBC radio show “As It Happens,” relating an incident of a clearly intoxicated Russian pilot being confronted by passengers on a transatlantic A...
Gilani Shepiyev, a former deputy mayor of Grozny, received three fatal gunshot wounds to the head late last night outside his Moscow apartment – an increasingly common affliction for many Russians who are in some way connected to the South C...
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