Biting economic sanctions -- the type that hit at the very economic and financial heart of the regime and not the Iranian people -- must be aggressively pursued and carefully constructed.
The necessity for a radical change in Russia's economic development paradigm has become clear in recent years, with President Medvedev responding forcibly.
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Peace Prevails in Ireland A last minute peace deal is reached in Northern Ireland to peacefully devolve L...
The plan is to bump up spending on nuclear weapons by a total of $5 billion over the next five years.
This is part two of my world odyssey, the first report being on "The Wonder of Korea". Today, some thoughts combining Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. ...
While all the attention was on Obama's State of the Union address, an event of far greater relevance to the fate of his presidency played out not in Washington, but in London.
Behind the bells and whistles of President Obama's State of the Union, North Korea, the international pariah state, continued to make concrete belligerent moves in its foreign policy this week.
Thanks to bloggers' active support, we managed to defeat the seemingly unbeatable Russian Federal Security machine.
How rewarding to people like Oleg Deripaska that after the indignities Russia suffered at the hands of the West in the 90s, they today see the flow of power and money in the opposite direction.
China is going to keep lending us. That still doesn't give us more leverage. How can we gain the upper hand in that regard in relations with China? There are two ways: pay the debt, or reform the UN.
A number of market pros, including a long-term gold bull, are having some second thoughts about the metal's near term prospects. Some argue that the price of gold could be vulnerable to a stiff decline.
An article in the U.K. Daily Mail reported that Lusha, a chimpanzee in Russia, outperformed 94% of the country's investment funds. Her portfolio increased by 300% in the last year.
There is, in fact, a direct correlation between how much one knows about Friedman's various failed predictions and how deeply one sighs when the fellow makes yet another one of the damned things.
The core of The Last Station's story is the conflict between Leo Tolstoy and his wife, the Countess Sofya, over the rights to his works. But frack tha...
Today's power brokers are still at the top of their game because they are said to "have the credentials." No matter that they are the credentials of a shadowy elite--and of failure.
Timothee Faberger, flight attendant/caterer/tour guide, has made a profession of making guests feel at home whether they're at his three-family house in Astoria or in Russia on a river cruise.
The Buryats, a formerly nomadic people of Mongol origin with strong ties to Buddhism and shamanism, now fear a loss of their unique culture and the reversal of recent economic gains.
The Christian God abhors the shedding of innocent blood and nuclear weapons are only capable of widespread, indiscriminate killing and destruction of life.
What's to keep the START treaty from winding up as watered down as President Obama's feeble attempts at bank and health care reform?
Yabloko, the last registered democratic party in Russia has officially fractured after its recent adoption of a resolution that bans its members from participating in any form of opposition.
Stephen Colbert's plan to string a microscopically thin razor along our entire border is brutal, indiscriminate, dangerous... and smarter than the nuclear defense we now have.
