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As resolutions go, this one seems deceptively modest. "My ambition is to exterminate the word 'bumbling' from the vocabulary of profilers," says Boris Johnson, the Tory candidate to become mayor of London. "There's going to be a massive stamping down on the bumbling. Much less bumbling." A quick search...
Putin's success, similarly, is based on reversing the national sense of gloom and doom that accompanied the presidency of Boris Yeltsin. While lionized in the West for his anti-communist stance, Yeltsin is remembered at home for ushering in an era of economic and social catastrophe, rampant kleptocracy and...
Garry Kasparov, a former chess champion and prominent Putin critic, was arrested last week and sentenced to five days in jail. Boris Nemtsov, a presidential contender and former deputy prime minister, was also detained.
Nationalism is on the rise again in Serbia due to the imminent secession of Kosovo, the mostly ethnic-Albanian province which is seeking independence from Serbia with the backing of the West, while Belgrade - backed by Moscow - remains fiercely opposed. Following the footsteps of Milosevic, Seselj is also expected to...
His countrymen may not mind: Putin's approval ratings run above 70%. But there are some things he cannot control--the international market for oil and natural gas, for instance. High prices have kept Russia's economy stable despite Putin's throttling of foreign investment and domestic small businesses. His...