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Uncertain World: Grand Diplomacy Is Back
15:44 21/09/2013 Bi-weekly column by Fyodor Lukyanov
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Sex in the Soviet Closet: A History of Gay Cruising in Moscow
15:25 19/09/2013Transmissions from a Lone Star: Will Somebody Please Pay Me to Lie in Bed All Day?
21:40 18/09/2013Trendwatcher: Nerds Gone Wild: Argument Over Philosopher Kant Ends in Shooting
23:50 16/09/2013View From the Global Tank: What Would Don Fanucci Say on Using Missiles to Coerce Assad?
01:52 13/09/2013
My belief in serendipity has been renewed by US Secretary of State John Kerry’s offhand suggestion on September 9 that Syrian President Bashar Assad could avert US military strikes by “turning over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week.”
1Transmissions from a Lone Star: In Britain, Big Brother Is Watching Your Dog Poop
14:05 12/09/2013
Whereas I usually write these columns in Texas, this week I am visiting the UK. The last time I lived here permanently “Macarena” was still on the radio.1Trendwatcher: Moscow’s Aging Voters Defeat Its Apathetic Youth
18:32 10/09/2013Norma McCall
18:37 08/09/2013Polar Mission – Tracing the Last Movements of the 'Soviet Lindbergh'
13:01 08/09/2013Due West: Russia’s G20 Summit Promised Little, and Delivered Even Less
22:10 06/09/2013
The G20 summit in St. Petersburg, as expected, was a meaningless affair.2A Hipster’s Plight: In Russia, Irony is a Political Affair
19:52 06/09/2013Uncertain World: Why Hasn’t Obama Renewed US Foreign Policy?
17:43 06/09/2013
Responding to an opponent, Barack Obama said: “I stood up and opposed this war at a time when it was politically risky to do so because I said that not only did we not know how much it was going to cost, what our exit strategy might be, how it would affect our relationships around the world, and whether our intelligence was sound, but also because we hadn't finished the job in Afghanistan.”1Transmissions from a Lone Star: Kim Jong-un and Dennis Rodman: A Heartwarming Tale of True Friendship
19:57 05/09/2013John Browning
10:40 05/09/2013Trendwatcher: Glamorous Fraudsters and Debt Suicides
11:18 03/09/2013In Global Tussle, Russia and Émigré US Socialite Battle for Fortune
06:50 02/09/2013Due West: The Kremlin Faces Tough Choices Over Syria
19:10 30/08/2013It was good while it lasted. For two years Moscow had a free ride at the expense of the West’s confused policy over Syria. But it seems that the day of reckoning and re-evaluation may be close. As a US military strike against Bashar Assad regime’s military installations becomes more and more likely day by day, official Moscow seems to have lost its penchant for sweeping statements of contempt denigrating Washington and its allies.5View From the Global Tank: Striking Syria May Be Unavoidable – But Mission Creep Must Not Be
23:32 29/08/2013So the die seems to have been cast. The US military is set to intervene in the Syrian civil war to punish the regime of Bashar Assad for crossing the red line that President Barack Obama drew so publicly by allegedly using nerve gas that the opposition says killed more than 1,000 in Damascus on August 21.2Russia Worried About Strikes on Syria? Not Really
21:34 29/08/2013
As US destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean are aiming their cruise missiles at Syrian state targets, what can Moscow – which has been vocally opposed to Western military intervention – do and how much does it stand to lose?7
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