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...Trouble with Putinomics It's difficult to get an accurate picture of the economic disruption in Russia, where reliable information and open public discussion remain rare. This is the other side of Putinomics: TV and many major press outlets are firmly under state control, and media outlets that aren't have become nervous about printing the truth. As a result, the very word crisis is only now starting to enter the official vocabulary, and even then in a relatively muted...
...movement and Moscow watching closely, he had no choice but to order the crackdown. Soviet troops put down a popular rebellion in Hungary in 1956 and destroyed a reformist Czech regime in 1968. Jaruzelski was acutely aware that Poland could suffer a similar fate. Martial law was a "dramatically difficult decision," but it "saved Poland from a looming catastrophe," he told the court...
Many student groups also found it difficult to hold events the evening before The Game...
...neighbors to curb such attacks. The rage of Mumbaikars and Indians in general is understandable. This crime against humanity in Mumbai has shaken India, its neighbors, and its friends. However, it would be a greater tragedy if we let this act of terrorism wash away years of difficult diplomacy and confidence-building measures between the two nations. Rather, this disaster just might provide Pakistan and India with a chance to forge a stronger relationship based in a common vision of a peaceful South Asia...
...each country, looked extremely promising in the days just before the Mumbai attacks. And, most ironically, Pakistan’s foreign minister was in Delhi on a diplomatic visit when terrorists laid siege to Mumbai. These moves indicated a desire in both Delhi and Islamabad to abandon their difficult past and chart a productive future of cooperation. Then, Mumbai happened...