Sunil Adam

Editor, 'The Indian American'

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Joe Favorito

Branding consultant

Even outside of the large scale events now coming to Russia, the idea of sport for commerce is growing in ways never before seen.

Pepe Escobar

Roving correspondent for the Asia Times

President Bush: Frank, please consider filling a post I'm creating. It may mean long hours and dangerous nights, surrounded by some of the scummiest e...

MP Nunan

Veteran Foreign Correspondent with experience in Iraq, Afghanistan, Cambodia, India and more. Creator of TV comedy "Even Small Wars Look Big From Up Close," on Amazon.

What was the most compelling aspect of Wikileaks' release of 220 US diplomatic cables - the latest move by the online whistle-blower to - well, whist...

Reese Schonfeld

Television journalist

Once again, an American institution is dissing Russia. It is as if we don't understand that Russia has ways of dissing us.

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Co-hosts of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: 29 co...

Christina Patterson

Writer and columnist, 'The Independent'

To the man in Wisconsin who shot his TV when he saw Bristol Palin on Dancing With The Stars, I have one word to say: respect.

Robert Amsterdam

International lawyer on emerging markets, politics of business, and rule of law

Lawlessness has been working out pretty well for Putin -- when courts don't work, and when the investigators are specialized in inventing cases rather than solving crimes, the Kremlin becomes the ultimate arbiter in the system.

William Hartung

Director, Arms and Security Project, Center for International Policy

In a burst of fear-mongering that is surprising even by its own diminished standards, the Heritage Foundation -- through its offshoot Heritage Action ...

Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Morocco & White House Middle East Adviser

Any Congress, particularly a hostile Congress, has the power to give any sitting president a major national security migraine -- and the incoming House GOP leadership has proven their determination to do just that.

Oleg Kozlovsky

Russian Democracy and Human Rights Activist

Putin got an unusual gift from several students of Moscow State University's Department of Journalism. Twelve soon-to-be journalists in sexy lingerie posed for a calendar entitled "Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin!"

Simon Shuster

Reporter based in Moscow

In another country this might have been engineered as a harmless and sentimental stunt. But here the room was cluttered with so much suggestive crap that Kremlin watchers nearly lost their heads trying to dissect the innuendo.

Simon Shuster

Reporter based in Moscow

In the fall of 2007, when Vladimir Putin was choosing his stand-in for the Russian presidency, my editor at The Moscow Times got the idea to profile e...

Robert Hahn and Peter Passell

University of Manchester, Regulation2point0.org

Microsoft's unwitting collaboration with Putin illustrates a broader phenomenon in the third world whose political leadership is more inclined to take its inspiration from Robert Mugabe than from John Locke.

Oleg Kozlovsky

Russian Democracy and Human Rights Activist

Rechtsstaat is not just about obedience to every law. It is also about laws being fair and about everybody being equal before the law. Do we have anything of this? No.

Robert Amsterdam

International lawyer on emerging markets, politics of business, and rule of law

The recent decision by a Thai appeals court to extradite the alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout, touted as the "Merchant of Death" in popular books and m...