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. ...
TODAY: Journalists face the cost of free speech; Medvedev ousts governors; Stalin’s grandson lawsuit denied; Kremlin angered by Strasbourg ruling; black actor dies after attack. Medvedev honors famine victims as ties with Ukraine impro...
This quote comes from Weng Tojirakarn comes from The Australian. “I urgently ask the government of Australia to issue a statement to ask Thailand to stop the violence from the government side,” Dr Weng said, adding he had sent a reques...
One of the best blogs you should be reading this week about the crisis in Thailand is New Mandala. Below is a snippet of an interesting post about the language we choose to use in describing political violence (please note that the post is c...
Today we are seeing some wildly different reports of the protests in the mining town of Mezhdurechensk, where last weekend’s disastrous methane explosions killed at least 66 people. According to the Moscow Times, 300 people participate...
Today’s New York Times looks at a new report by the independent research institute the Center for European Reform, which suggests that Central and Eastern Europeans nations feel that NATO pays little heed to their security interests, and tha...
According to Bloomberg, Iran has signed an agreement with Brazil and Turkey for a nuclear swap deal that is designed to quell international suspicions about the nature of Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. The US had apparently expressed some...
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