That severe, systematic inflictions of suffering on whole peoples were going on in the world even on Christmas Day in 2025 did not require a...

As American, Ukrainian, and Russian negotiating delegations were flying around the world in early December, 2025 to conduct various negotiat...

Arkady Rotenberg, a former judo coach, became a billionaire industrialist by selling pipe to the state-owned gas monopoly, Gazprom. Meanwhi...

On December 31, 2010, a Russian judge sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian tycoon who had been imprisoned in 2003 after defying Vla...

While visiting the Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery in northwestern Russia in 2000, Vladimir Putin wrote in the guest book, “The revival of Rus...

At the conclusion of the 2012 Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Russia, the host president, Vladimir Putin, likened the birds t...

United Russia, the party led by Prime Minister Putin, decided in August, 2010 not to submit the name of the governor of Kaliningrad, Georgy...

In political economy theory, democracy is said to have the drawback of excessive consumption of public revenues at the expense of investmen...

The Russian state-owned company, Rosneft, reached separate agreements in October 2012 to buy TNK-BP from BP and a group of Russian billion...

In the wake of yet another Syrian massacre of civilians, including families being shot at close-range in their own houses, the New Y...

At a joint EU-US news-conference on 26 March 2014, Presidents Barroso, Van Rompuy, and Obama discussed the problematic Russian invasion of ...

In the weeks leading us to watch the Olympics, I suspect I was not alone in thinking, “I just don't like what I see here." Why w a...

The “Arab Spring” of 2011 might have given the world an over-optimistic notion of what political protest can engender in terms of “regime ch...

In a move to shore up popular support before the presidential election in 2012, Vladimir Putin called for a windfall levy on the dishonest ...