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Every Saturday night, a coffee shop in central Moscow turns into a battlefield. Empires are forged and destroyed, terrorists hijack continents, scheming goblins and other vermin roam the streets while billion-dollar business deals are struck under the table. And although these transactions are fake, the passions that rage here are very real.
No one said it better than Dostoevsky. In his masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov, he clearly defines the underlying rationale for the mental despotism that has for centuries burdened the Russian people.
Anna Chapman leaves home to run for parliament \ United Russia criticizes modernization policy \ The French will kill Russian vodka
Recently I acquired a collection of LIFE magazines from 1971, and was curious to see what was making the news back then. You can probably guess some of the topics (e.g. the Vietnam War) and you’ve probably forgotten others (the opening of an airport on the Seychelles).
The unrest in the Middle East and North Africa has not stopped, but the feeling of sensational novelty it created in winter is fading. In fact, the preliminary results of the “Arab spring” look different from those envisioned at the initial flowering of public euphoria.
Over the past year alone Moscow was affected by different climate anomalies – last summer’s two-month heat wave, winter’s ice rain and recent April snow. Is it a tendency? If so, what may be next? Nikolai Yelansky, head of the trace gas laboratory at the A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, answers these questions and also claims that due to the growth of worldwide industrial production, weekly work cycles now can influence the global climate.
Yemen is teetering on the brink of civil war, and yet the UN Security Council has failed to produce even a joint political statement on the situation there, much less a concrete plan of action to avert this disastrous outcome.
Tuesday's Washington Post featured an article on the "$3 trillion dilemma: What to do with all that cash?" They may be dollars, but it's not U.S. money. The question is in fact about China's foreign reserves - that surged by another $200 billion in the first quarter of this year to reach new record heights.1
Prostitute calls SWAT team to shake down non-paying client \ Russia: Economists warn of growing risks, question official statistics \ One in five bilked investors re-housed by July
The Republican frontrunner for the U.S. elections in 2012, according to recent polls, is Donald Trump. This week he aired his concerns about high oil prices and spelled out his course of action to lower gas prices in America.
With thousands of tourists flooding into London and local media speculating over the details of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, only nine days are left until the big day.
Moscow is abuzz with speculation. There is no lack of scenarios for the presidential campaign in 2012. My favorite one is actually a “Putin vs. Medvedev” race. And I will try to explain why.
Elections have become a crucial tool in attempts to achieve broader democratization of the world. The fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the Soviet Union stirred up drastic changes around the world, among them the appearance of new actors and coalitions seeking a democratic future.
Russia-2020: Development options – Bonanza ends \ Incomes move into the shadow \ Russian government denies Internet clampdown planned
“I left home and spent five days on the streets before the police caught me,” says Lena, 15, tossing back her long black hair from her face.