Tag: Russia

Russia is the largest state on Earth. This colossus spread across eleven time zones, until Putin a few years ago reduced it to nine,...

100,000 persons marched in Moscow in honor of Boris Nemtsov. Nemtsov was once seen as Yeltsin’s heir apparent (when Putin was still an obscure...

Boris Nemtsov was assassinated next to the splendid Saint Basil Cathedral. He was going to lead on Sunday a march against Putin’s war in Ukraine. Nemtsov,...

YOU WANT PEACE? MAKE WAR COSTLYThe French and German leaders are meeting again with Putin to make him recover reason: it reminds me of...

Merkel and Hollande went together to see the president of Ukraine and the Russian dictator, in a last ditch effort before Putin sends his...

Before scoffing that both subjects have nothing to do with each other, please be informed that they do. And the name is Putin. The...

Science is about what we know, for sure. Philosophy is about what we can guess.History has been fruitful to the USA, so it should...

Americans are going to spend more than 600 billion dollars this Christmas season, and on Friday we got to see our fellow citizens fight...

Christophe de Margerie’s jet hit a snow plough on a Moscow runway at midnight, flipped on its back, caught fire, and skidded across. The...

Abstract: Geography can dominate history. Examples abound. Civilization cannot just clash: it has to be defended by the sword, and by ideas which are...

The Mistral is a mighty wind that blows across Provence after an Atlantic storm passes by. It’s also the name of large, state of...

Listening, watching, the pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine: so much anger. About what exactly? They speak of the “fascists”, the “Nazis” in Kiev, who made...