Back in June the respected health journal The Lancet published a scary report on alcoholism in Russia, noting that booze kills more people than war, making it the country’s biggest public threat. Now that we are well into August, the l...
Radoslaw Sikorski writes in Europe’s World on the Eastern Partnership initiative: The EaP also has an important political aspect: it shows partner countries attractive development prospects and offers them the opportunity to make the strateg...
Writing in the China Post, Frank Ching argues that Beijing’s hosting of the summer olympic games of 2008 did nothing to advance human rights. One would imagine that the same would go for Sochi. The two issues — human rights and C...
The International Energy Agency’s chief economist Fatih Birol has said that if oil prices rise higher than $70, the global economic recovery will be rendered more difficult. Birol has also predicted there may not be sufficient demand f...
In the last quarter GDP fell by 10.9%, the most since 1995, prompting ‘slump‘ headlines. The New York Times however reports optimism among analysts, one of whom says ‘it is very likely that Russia has bottomed out and that ...
TODAY: Shock reverberates around Chechyna NGO worker murder; Kadryov reacts with attack on Estemirova. NATO-Russia relations warming up; new kind of space race? Medvedev pulls no punches on Ukraine leadership. ‘Merchant of Death’...
Personally, when I think of the World’s Most Dangerous Places, I think of Robert Young Pelton, whose approach to off-the-beaten-path travel saved my life more times than I care to count during the early reckless years of my youth. David Roth...
Celestine Bohlen has an op/ed in the New York Times on the latest murders in Chechnya: Now, the bodies of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband, Alik Djabrailov, who worked with an organization that helped young people in Chechnya, have been discovere...
Melik Kaylan, the fellow who in 2007 wrote a pretty popular travel piece about spending time in the Mikheil Saakashvili entourage, has a Georgia war anniversary opinion published on Forbes: The West has furnished way too many levers and excuses to...
When the Russian state laid siege to Yukos and imprisoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, many things were accomplished: state officials behind Rosneft and Gazprom illegally became overnight billionaires, energy resources were sharpened into an even g...
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