Missile shields and expansionism
The Kremlin wasted no time lobbing another salvo toward Washington, this one with Obama in mind. A day after the election, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev threatened to deploy missiles next...
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To Russia, with desperation
Every three months, David Martin, a quadriplegic, returns to a small clinic here in the Russian capital for therapy he cannot legally get back home in Kalamazoo, Mich.: injections of...
Russian renaissance
For more than a century, vineyards that blanket rolling uplands here in Russia's prime winemaking region have been afflicted by a Soviet maxim long ago branded into the minds of...
Georgians flee as friends die and villages burn
When night falls on this half- destroyed farming hamlet in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, the few locals that are left slip out of their homes and quietly find...
With pirates, it’s Russian roulette at sea
KALININGRAD, Russia — On a cloudless spring afternoon when the Gulf of Aden was a sheet of blue, the Somalis piled into two speedboats and drew a bead on the...
With pirates, it’s Russian roulette at sea
On a cloudless spring afternoon when the Gulf of Aden was a sheet of blue, the Somalis piled into two speedboats and drew a bead on the Lehmann Timber as...
Kremlin raises the ante
The Kremlin's decision Tuesday to recognize the independence of Georgia's two breakaway enclaves deepens what has become the West's worst crisis with Moscow since the end of the Cold War...
Russians, Georgians engage in war of spin
A Russian newspaper recently published what was portrayed as the seamy truth behind the conflict in Georgia: Vice President Dick Cheney helped engineer the war as a way to keep...
Using energy to gain power
Russia exerts its aggressive, ever-growing confidence on the global stage in many ways. The starkest example has been its relentless campaign of bombing raids and troop incursions into its tiny...
Georgian conflict puts U.S. in middle
Until now, the frozen conflict in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia has been an obscure spat in a faraway land for most in the West. But with Georgia and...