Time Magazine has released its short list for the annual Person of the Year award. Among the group of this year’s candidates are best-selling pop artist Taylor Swift; the first openly gay fortune 500 CEO, Tim Cook; Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised and thanked the Chechen government for responding to an attack in the capital of Grozny late Wednesday night. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov attended Putin’s state of the nation address on Thursday. “Now the ‘rebels’ once
Fighting broke out in Grozny, Chechnya, one day before Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his state of the nation. Russian authorities said militants killed three police officers at a checkpoint just after midnight. The attack forced Putin out of bed,
Conditions for openly gay and lesbian Russians have become so dire that America is experiencing a surge in the number of LGBT Russians seeking asylum in America from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tyranny against them. Several asylum-seekers spoke with the
Friday on Euronews’ “The Global Conversation,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) asked host Isabelle Kumar if she was “crazy,” when she asked if the Arizona Senator feared angering Russian President Vladimir Putin by calling for arming Ukraine in their struggle to
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rejected a notion this week that a quota system should be enacted to limit the number of Hollywood films that can be viewed in theaters across Russia. A parliamentary debate for Thursday was cancelled due
MOSCOW (AP) — Dr. Semyon Galperin spent a decade in medical research in Russia and as much time in the United States, working at top hospitals and research companies. Despite his expertise, Galperin was recently given a stark ultimatum from
A rare, endangered Siberian tiger, fitted with a tracking device and set free by Russian President Vladimir Putin crossed over the border into Heilongjiang province’s Fuyuan county and killed 18 Chinese goats. Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
Josef Koudelka, the Czech-born photographer whose smuggled images defined the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet bloc in August 1968, is the focus of a visiting exhibition, Nationality Doubtful, at the Getty Center in Los Angeles through March 22, 2015.
An endangered tiger set free in Russia has killed 18 Chinese goats after crossing the frontier, with Beijing’s state media saying on Wednesday that the feline felon had been freed by President Vladimir Putin. The Siberian tiger, named Ustin, wreaked
BERLIN (Reuters) – After nine months of non-stop German diplomacy to defuse the crisis in Ukraine, Chancellor Angela Merkel decided in mid-November that a change of tack was needed. Ahead of a summit of G20 leaders in Australia, Merkel resolved
MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Putin has said he won’t remain Russia’s president for life and will step down in line with the constitution no later than 2024, according to an interview with a Russian news agency released Sunday. Staying beyond
Forget the smarmy political desperation of it. Forget the Third World despotic nature of it. Forget even the cynical, Machiavellian deceitfulness of it. Let’s just consider how President Obama threatens to slash to ribbons the very fabric of the world’s
NEW YORK (AP) — The parents of Matthew Shepard, the gay Wyoming college student tortured and murdered in 1998, are traveling to Russia on Friday to spread their message of tolerance and acceptance in a country where anti-gay policies and
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitri Peskov told the BBC that Moscow demands a “100% guarantee” that Ukraine will never join NATO. The organization continues to accuse Russia of aggravating the situation in Ukraine and breaking the ceasefire truce from September. Peskov
Dave bestrides the geopolitical world like a colossus. A new Cold War? Bring it on! Even the Aussies, renowned practitioners of straight talking, were awed when Crocodile Cameron hit Brisbane for the recent G20 junket. Strewth! That bloke Dave really
Burnishing his reputation for being the West’s most stalwart defender of freedom, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper won major plaudits both at home and around the world for his refusal to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s outstretched hand before Sunday’s G20
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin made an early exit on Sunday from a two-day summit of world leaders where he was roundly criticized over Russia’s escalating aggression in Ukraine, but brushed off suggestions that he had felt
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Under pressure to jolt the lethargic world economy back to life, leaders of G-20 nations on Sunday finalized a plan to boost global GDP by more than $2 trillion over five years. The fanfare, however, was
The United Nations is preparing to confront North Korea over its dismal rights record with a key vote this week that could compel Pyongyang to answer to crimes against humanity. A UN General Assembly committee will vote Tuesday on a
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Blunt language from Canada’s Stephen Harper to Vladimir Putin Merger of ISIS and al-Nusra seen unlikely, despite reports Turkey’s Erdogan says Muslims, not Christopher Columbus, discovered America UN committee in Jordan investigates Israeli war
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Vladimir Putin eats lunch alone at G20 meeting Jonathan Gruber on Obamacare and the stupidity of the American voter Massachusetts health care site finally up — for $254 million The implementation of Obamacare Vladimir
Secret “Russian subs” off Sweden, tit-for-tat sanctions, NATO fighters scrambling to intercept Russian warplanes: relations between the West and Moscow over Ukraine have sparked incidents reminiscent of the Cold War that terrified the world for decades. Even Cold War doyen
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s public inquiry next year into the 2006 murder of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko should not be broadcast because witnesses could face reprisals from Russia, the lawyer representing London’s police force said on Friday. Kremlin critic
BEIJING (AP) — It was a warm gesture on a chilly night when Vladimir Putin wrapped a shawl around the wife of Xi Jinping while the Chinese president chatted with Barack Obama. The only problem: Putin came off looking gallant,
