Russians wearying of Putin's rule
"Throughout the day, it was like receiving reports from a war zone," said Communist Party deputy head Ivan Melnikov last Sunday, speaking about the thousands of calls he had received from regiona
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Playing fair too unpalatable
'Arab Autumn': still more good news than bad
Burma elections and Aung San Suu Kyi's leap of faith
Arab League, long ineffectual, wakes up
Strategy of persecuting Tymoshenko
There are three obvious explanations for Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's behaviour in the case of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who has just been sentenced to seven years in priso
Balancing act in Saudi Arabia
Geoengineering takes off
Scientists who are working on various concepts for "geoengineering" the climate are almost comically eager to stress that they are not trying to come up with a substitute for reducing carbon dioxid