The Movie the U.N. Would Prefer You Did Not See

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon traveled to Hollywood last year to cajole filmmakers and movie stars into making pictures that portray the U.N.’s good works. The Whistleblower, a scathing full-length account ...

Denmark Takes EU Rotating Presidency with Many Handicaps

Denmark takes up the rotating EU presidency as the year begins, succeeding Poland. Denmark and its left-of-center government are taking the helm in most inauspicious circumstances. The main order of ...

Polish Finance Minister Warns of War if EU Collapses

Poland holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, but as the major issue confronting the union is the stability of the euro to which Poland has not switched (for the moment it is ...

U.S. Debt: Riskier Than Bulgaria, Mexico and Russia

Posted by Colin Barr- Think the debate about U.S. creditworthiness can’t get any sillier? Guess again. A week after Standard & Poor’s finally told us what we already knew, that ...

Ethnic Riots in Moscow, Dozens Injured

Twelve people have been hospitalized as a result of Ethnic riots in Moscow at night of December 15. News agencies reported earlier that there were 30 people injured in the ...

Immigration: European Coalitions Tired of Uncontrolled Immigration

In the first of a series on the politics of immigration in Europe, Ian Traynor reveals how mainstream leftist European parties appear paralysed by populism, unable to halt the rise ...

Coldest winter in 1,000 years on its way

After the record heat wave this summer, Russia’s weather seems to have acquired a taste for the extreme. Forecasters say this winter could be the coldest Europe has seen in ...

Putin compares himself to FDR as he hints at third term

Vladimir Putin hinted that he would run for a third and possibly even a fourth term as Russian president as he likened himself to former US President Franklin D Roosevelt

Russian Spy Case – Espionage Or Politics?

In Ordinary Lives, US Sees the Work of Russian Agents,” Scott Shane and Charlie Savage said they “lived for more than a decade in American cities and suburbs from Seattle ...

Vladimir Putin boasts Russian fighter jet would trump US rival

Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, climbed into the cockpit of his country’s newest fighter jet on Thursday and said it would trump a US-built rival, the F-22 Raptor. Mr ...