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Transmissions from a Lone Star: American election watch, part 1

Weekly column by Daniel Kalder

Ever since Barack Obama was elected, a lot of pundits have asked: who will run against him in 2012?

Left at the Crossroads: Obama, Netanyahu, and the game of pretense

Biweekly column by Marc Saint-Upéry

Henry 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.

Uncertain World: Time for reflection

Weekly column by Fyodor Lukyanov

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.

Due West: Russia’s Balkans obsession seems to be finally over

Weekly column by Konstantin von Eggert

The arrest of General Ratko Mladic and his extradition to the International Tribunal in The Hague have produced precious little reaction from Moscow.

Sam's Exchange: Derivatives - How do we regulate them?

Biweekly column by Sam Barden

If you asked the average person what a derivative is, most of them have no idea.

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At London meet, Russia works to overcome investors' worries

RIA Novosti correspondent Natasha Doff

Several dozen international investors with money to spend in emerging markets gathered in London for a rare opportunity to meet the management of Russia's top companies face-to-face.

The cucumber scare: Spain absolved of guilt

RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin

Rumor of a European vegetable conspiracy, the suggestion that the E. coli epidemic was deliberately engineered to hurt Spanish and/or other European farmers thereby boosting their own agricultural sector, is the direct result of the EU's distorted agricultural policy.

Ratko Mladic - the high price of EU integration for Serbia

RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin

If one were to ask Serbs about what they needed more - General Ratko Mladic, who was delivered to the international detention center of The Hague war crimes tribunal on Tuesday, or membership in the European Union (EU) - the majority would certainly vote for the latter.