Given the sudden and bloody end to the two-month-long protest rally in downtown Bangkok, I believe it is essential the world understands who the Red Shirts are, and what they have been fighting for. There continues to be a concerted effort from th...
A tacit rebuke to the Lula-brokered Iran deal?: the US has given the UN Security Council a draft resolution to widen sanctions against Iran. ‘More striking still was the agreement from Russia and China to push for the package so soon a...
RFE/RL reports that, for the first time in recent months, there are more foreign investors withdrawing from Russia than investing in it. President Dmitry Medvedev has argued that Russia’s recent $10 billion contribution to the Internat...
TODAY: Russia seeks to regain hold over its neighbors; Ex-PM Tymoschenko fears Ukraine break up; Medvedev proposes CSTO membership to Ukraine; NATO’s relationship with Russia. Official who killed child in traffic accident will not face...
Statement of Dr. Thaksin Shinawatra, May 19, 2010 Today, the government ordered the use of force to disperse the peaceful demonstrators at Rajprasong intersection and accusing me as the one who rejected the negotiation. I would like to make the st...
The Independent notes that the protesters in Bangkok actually have legitimate grievances. It would, one feels, take more than a small bribe from Mr Thaksin to persuade two middle-aged ladies – and Mrs Intarahutti is also infirm – to le...
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has spoken out about her country’s involvement with Russia in an exclusive interview with The Times. Specifically, she focuses on President Viktor Yanukovych’s raft of new energy d...
A very rare and sensible article on Thaksin Shinawatra published in Newsweek. Surely the government’s e-footsoldiers will leap all over it very soon just like they have with CNN (see Bangkok Pundit’s critique of their absurd stab...
Little more than a stop-gap? Glenn Kessler voices skepticism about the nature of the new nuclear deal with Iran in the Washington Post. RFE/RL seconds the feeling of doubt, attributing it to a sense of deja vu. The International ...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin apparently plans to assert more control over the mining sector following the Raspadskaya disaster. He has proposed giving safety watchdog Rostekhnadzor extensive powers, and increasing salaries to miners. ...
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