Barack Obama's world, Godfrey Hodgson
Barack Obama's arrival on the world stage has been more than the entry of a young, popular president who offers a new and more generous spirit in America foreign policy. Almost everywhere he has gone - from Berlin to Cairo, from London to Accra...
Obama in Moscow - perhaps a B-minus?, Wayne Merry
President Obama has completed his first in-depth engagement with the Russian leadership during his Moscow visit. From an outsider's perspective, he gets a B-plus for substance but no better than a C on form. On balance, then, a B-minus. The...
Natalya Estemirova: murdered, polit ru
Natalya Estemirova, one of the leading activists of the human rights centre ‘Memorial' in the Caucasus, has been murdered. Her body was found in neighbouring Ingushetia. The Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs gave out precise...
Adams seeks Irish unity campaign in Britain, Tom Griffin
Tom Griffin (London, OK): Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams spoke at Westminster last night on the latest leg of an international tour intended to build support for a united Ireland. In the event, it was a remarkably open-ended occasion, one much...