12/03/2013 | Frente Externo
Warning for Putin in Chavez's Hospital Stay
On March 5, Venezuelan authorities announced that President Hugo Chavez died. Whether he actually died on that day or on a previous date remains unclear. In any event, Chavez died from cancer that was clearly complicated by poor medical care that he received in Cuba. He turned to Cuban oncologists apparently because there were few other places he could go for cancer treatment.
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23/11/2012 | Frente Externo
Ivanishvili Is Georgia's Chavez
Weeks after the Georgian Dream coalition took power in Georgia, Bacho Akhalaia, a former interior and defense minister, was personally arrested by the prosecutor general and the justice minister at 3 a.m. in Tbilisi. As part of the same case, the head of the General Staff, Georgy Kalandadze, and 4th Brigade commander Zurab Shamatava were also arrested but later conditionally released.
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19/05/2012 | Frente Externo
Russia - Using Taoism and Writers to Fight the Regime
Riot police broke up a sanctioned protest rally on May 6. After that, police detained Moscow pedestrians carrying white ribbons — the symbol of the protest movement. They also stopped "suspicious individuals" carrying no ribbons at all. That is why writer Boris Akunin proposed a truly Taoist form of protest: a walk along Moscow's central streets on Sunday.
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06/10/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The American Terrorist Liberties Union
Drones have been successfully hitting one terrorist after another lately in the U.S. war against Islamist terrorism. Al-Qaida and other Islamist organizations have made it their top priority to ban the use of drones, and leftist and human rights organizations in the West have eagerly joined their battle.
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09/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Robbing Stabilization to Pay the Budget
The Belarussian ruble, together with the economy as a whole, has crashed. The same fate may await the Russian ruble and economy within five to six years.
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09/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Robbing Stabilization to Pay the Budget
The Belarussian ruble, together with the economy as a whole, has crashed. The same fate may await the Russian ruble and economy within five to six years.
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03/02/2011 | Frente Externo
The New Iron Curtain
The current upheavals in Egypt might signal the start of a new chapter in world history. A new Iron Curtain is rapidly descending over the Middle East.
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13/01/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
The World Is Liquid
Despite the global crisis of 2008-09, 2010 marked the end of two decades of strong economic growth. From 1990 to 2010, the global economy more than doubled, from $22.8 trillion to $58 trillion. China, the main driver of that growth, now exports more in a single day than it did in all of 1978. Since it began reforms, China has managed to lift 400 million Chinese out of poverty.
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17/06/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Beslan’s Main Terrorist Finally Caught
Ali Taziyev, a successor to slain Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, was taken alive in the Ingush town of Malgobek. Taziyev — also known as Magas and as Magomed Yevloyev — was the second-most important figure of the so-called Caucasus Emirate after Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov. Credit for Taziyev’s arrest goes primarily to Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and, to a large extent, to Vladimir Gurba, regional head of the Federal Security Service. His arrest is the latest in a series of high-profile successes that include the capture of Rustamat Makhauri, whose people killed Russians living in Ingushetia, and the killing of rebel ideologist Said Buryat.
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02/06/2010 | Frente Externo
Would My Flotilla to Khodorkovsky Be Shot?
Israeli defense forces intercepted a flotilla with humanitarian aid headed for blockaded Gaza, killing at least nine people and causing an international scandal. The activists knew long in advance that their flotilla would be intercepted. In fact, that is how they planned it from the start.
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31/03/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Caucasus Emirate
Terrorist bombings of apartment buildings, markets and the metro have been ripping Russia apart for 11 years.
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25/03/2010 | En Profundidad
Why Putin Isn’t Afraid of a Free Internet
Have you ever wondered why the Kremlin does not control the Internet as China does?China surpasses Russia on every conceivable front. After Russia suffered more than any other country in the Group of 20 during the crisis, economists rallied to rename BRIC as BIC, while China overtook Germany to become the world’s largest exporter.
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21/01/2010 | Frente Externo
Haiti’s Voodoo Rescue Mission
The earthquake in Haiti serves as a disturbing reminder that the number of victims in an earthquake depends less on the magnitude of the quake and much more on the social conditions in the country.
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28/11/2009 | Frente Externo
Russia - A Third World Killing
Last week, 37-year-old Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for Hermitage Capital, died in a Moscow pretrial detention center.
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28/11/2009 | Frente Externo
Russia - A Third World Killing
Last week, 37-year-old Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for Hermitage Capital, died in a Moscow pretrial detention center.
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