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Ever since Barack Obama was elected, a lot of pundits have asked: who will run against him in 2012?
Add commentsHenry Siegman, former director of the American Jewish Congress, has an interesting take on the Middle East conundrum. It reminds him of a vintage Soviet joke: we pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.
The 2012 guessing game about the future of the so-called tandem of Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin is beginning to dominate the political debate in Russia.
The arrest of General Ratko Mladic and his extradition to the International Tribunal in The Hague have produced precious little reaction from Moscow.
If you asked the average person what a derivative is, most of them have no idea.
“Baby at 50? Amazing Advances in Egg Freezing,” a headline on the cover of the May issue of the U.S. Vogue magazine read.1
One of my favorite regions on Earth resembles nothing so much as another world. Perhaps that’s why I like it so much.1
What a surprise for me to see American high school sophomores studying Russian history and asking questions such as “How do you see the historical Russian Soul affecting the new generations?”
Although I am still in my mid-thirties I am often struck by how much the world has changed in my lifetime.
The Georgian parliament has voted to recognize the 1864 genocide against the Circassian people in the Russian Empire. The political calculus behind Georgia’s actions is obvious. But the Georgian government seems to be underestimating the risks.
Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama are meeting in Deauville, France. Russia today is certainly not among the top three policy priorities in Washington, but an interest in its political evolution still exists.
I was not a popular girl back at school. I didn't belong to the "hot girls" clique and I didn't date. My high school crushes were not reciprocated simply because I used to be too timid to reveal even the slightest signs of interest towards the opposite sex. I was nerdy and rather geeky at times, too.1
All around me in the departure lounge as I wait for my plane to London are fat, wealthy Muscovites, English-Russian dictionaries in their hands, their children running around in Gucci and other designer brands. A moment of combined irritation and sadness passes through me, and then I see the kid.3
In the Moscow home of the famous Russian actress, Maria Yermolova, I heard a short talk on the play “The Mechanical Piano” adapted by Oleg Tabakov based on Chekhov.
When I was a boy I was always glad that I lived in Britain, where there were no dangerous animals that might kill me.
Is the Egyptian revolution going downhill? While a crime wave is engulfing the country, the rising specter of sectarian strife has many Egyptians wondering if the mounting disorder is synonym with democracy, and if it was all really worth it.
It is still unclear whether the sensational story of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's alleged sexual assault of a maid at New York's Sofitel hotel is more of a tragedy or a farce, but it is bound to have repercussions. What matters most now is how the incident will affect Europe.
Russian foreign policy, having shown for some time signs of certain renewal and possible change, is falling back into the old trap of anti-Western stance and rhetoric.7
The arrest of the Head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Khan, in New York over the weekend on sex charges, could go down as the biggest event in modern monetary history.3
Every family has a secret; a skeleton in the closet. Ours was that my father drank. I don’t remember a time when he didn’t drink; it started long before I was born.1