I love that Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko incorporates the traditional folksy milkmaid plaited braid, juxtaposed with her otherwise very modern sartorial sensibility, with nods to history.
Ahmadinejad's normal swagger has been muted, perhaps with the realization that his days of manipulating Russia against the West have ended.
The world has turned out to be a lot less malleable and willing to adjust to American preferences than the president may have thought before taking office.
Every two or three years, there has been a wave of protests like this in Iran. But this time I think there has been a fundamental change.
By creating manageable confrontations with Europe, the U.S, and former Soviet states, the Kremlin is attempting to govern outwardly, diminishing pressures for greater domestic accountability.
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Mr. Biden should take this opportunity to encourage the Ukrainian government to take practical and concrete steps to strengthen its response to hate crime.
Unlike most of the rest of Europe, Russia is hardly in the grips of Obamamania. He's certainly more popular than George W. Bush or John McCain, but that's damning with faint praise.
Iranian women are standing shoulder to shoulder in a way never before seen in a society that mistreats them so severely.
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Spending time worrying over global oil maneuvers by foreign governments is a waste of time and money. We should have a national project to use domestic natural gas and reduce our imports of foreign oil.
A foiled plot in Ukraine shows the gaping holes in efforts to contain deadly radioactive materials that could be used in dirty bombs. It is time to crack down on this trade. Obama needs to push his plan now.
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Russia needs Western know-how and financing to exploit its vast energy resources. And the US needs new energy suppliers until country is effectively weaned off foreign oil.
The current killing-spree of Russian dissidents is, in part, an attempt to silence criticisms of crimes in Chechnya.
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In Congress, it is de rigeuer to insist that the Israelis are always innocent and the Palestinians always guilty.
We are facing the prospect of global deflation and depression. But I believe the situation could be turned around by adopting a bold and comprehensive program. Unfortunately, Treasury Secretary Geithner has not presented a convincing case.
The rest of the world is wondering why no one in Washington appears to be the least bit concerned about the astonishing risks we continue to run by doing nothing about our dependence on foreign oil.
I'm at the concert hall in Odessa, sitting on stage behind the first violins as the orchestra rehearses the Scherzo of the Schumann Symphony No. 2.
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