A powerful article from Shawn W. Crispin, an editor for Asia Times Online, points to the inception of a new period of military-authoritarian dictatorship in Thailand. Thailand is sliding towards de-facto military rule and it is not clear that Prim...
Dmitry Sidorov’s latest op/ed in Forbes is a vitriolic, no-holds-barred rant, but he’s right that at least somebody should be angry about the Russian officers who stole credit cards from the dead at the Polish president’s air cra...
As the World Cup kicks off right about now, Amnesty International has come up with a clever way to ride some of the hype by putting together their own selection of players … though everybody appears to play defense. The list features o...
Below is the translated text of a decision from a Bond court hearing in Kigali, Rwanda on June 7, in the case of the unlawfully imprisoned U.S. lawyer Peter Erlinder. This decision, which makes for absolutely chilling reading, comes from a j...
Iran says its uranium enrichment program will not be derailed by new sanctions, with President Ahmadinejad promising to put the UN’s measures ‘in the waste bin’. Russia has apparently suggested that it will discuss the poss...
The World bank has suggested that Russia’s economy will be one of the motors driving improvements in the economic climate across the whole of Europe and Central Asia this year. ‘One country where forecasts are moving in th...
TODAY: Putin trust rating plummets; children encouraged to pray for their leaders; human rights activists urge France to address rights abuses during Putin Paris trip; Solidarity coalition leader assaulted. Russia and China at SCO meeting &#...
OK, this story might already be dead, but in case you have been sleeping under a rock for the past two weeks and somehow missed all the news and discussion about the on-air confrontation between Vladimir Putin and the rock star Yuri Shevchuk, here...
Today Vladimir Putin is visiting France and enjoying his new role as a potential economic savior to the dying eurozone … but of course there is a bit of a catch: these are precisely the same economies who buy so much of Russia’s ...
The Abhisit Vejjajiva administration in Thailand has made a number of symbolic gestures in recent days which are being viewed as a “reconciliation bid” following the killings of protesters in Bangkok over the past several months. ...
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