May 10, 2010 LONDON – Confusion resulting from Britain’s hung election continues after a weekend of furious negotiations between the three competing parties. At the time of this writing, no coalition has yet been agreed upon, but a deal is considered imminent. British parties are not used to forming […]
19 April 2010 The crash on 10 April of an airliner carrying Poland’s president, Lech Kaczynski, his wife and 94 of the nation’s political, military and economic leaders, was a heart-rending tragedy. But for Poles, tragedy is a constant. Poland’s epic, thousand-year history has always alternated between extremes of tragedy […]
April 5, 2010 There is an old saying about the fierce Chechen tribes who inhabit southern Russia’s Caucasus mountains: `Chechen cannot ever be defeated. They can only be killed.’ Chechen are Russia’s nemesis. Even the notoriously brutal Russian mafia fears the ferocious Chechen, and for good reason. Last year, Prime […]
