Americas

Obama Is No Longer a Friend

Source: FP On the morning of Sept. 4, Russian activists welcomed the G-20 Summit with a protest action that nearly blocked St. Petersburg’s Nevsky Prospect highway. Scores of protestors linked with the artistic collective Voina (“War”) marched out of the Museum of Authority, a private gallery that has since been […]

The Big Questions

Huff Post: Jaweed Kaleem. Twenty years ago, Evgenia Cherkasova and Elena Kornilov were doctoral students in their mid-20s, living in the same housing complex at Penn State University. As they pursued their degrees — Cherkasova in philosophy, Kornilov in physics — both started families, and to take a break from […]

Vladimir Putin is unlikely to lend his support to latest US crusade There are many a cautionary tale for Arab leaders – and for arrogant Western ones – about Moscow’s dealings with the Middle East

by Robert Fisk, The Independent Not many years ago, a Russian President held a late-night meeting with his special representative and asked him to fly at once to meet with an Arab dictator – to give him a personal warning on an impending American attack. If the Arab autocrat would […]