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The Kremlin’s Mobster Code

- Dina Khapaeva ATLANTA, July 18: Russia has a long history of rule by criminals. Channeling French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s famous dictum “property is theft,” the Bolsheviks emerged in the early twentieth century as a semi-criminal organization partly financed by the “expropriation of the expropriators” – in other words, armed

What Ukraine Brings to NATO

But I know that ordinary Russians – having endured decades of despotism and having now lost 100,000 or more of

Prigozhin met Vladimir Putin after short-lived mutiny

The confirmation that Putin met face-to-face with Prigozhin, who led troops on a march to Moscow last month to demand

China’s richest man Jack Ma in Kathmandu

Jack Ma, the owner of the Chinese company Alibaba Group and a Chinese businessman, has arrived in Nepal.

The Return of the Warlords

OXFORD – The turmoil in Russia unleashed by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group has drawn rapt attention in capitals throughout the world, but

Moscow’s mayor asks residents not to use cars or work…

Moscow’s mayor warned Saturday that traffic could be restricted in parts of Russia’s capital as part of heightened security prompted

To De-Escalate US-China Tensions, Decouple Differently

Likewise, the US ban on exporting advanced microchips to China – a similar form of economic coercion – is unlikely to guarantee

79 dead after overcrowded migrant vessel sinks off Greece

A fishing boat crammed to the gunwales with migrants trying to reach Europe capsized and sank Wednesday off the coast

Can Democracy Survive the Polycrisis?

We are living in troubled times. Too much is happening too fast. People are confused. The Columbia University economic historian

How AI Can Even the Climate Playing Field

Worse, a global biodiversity crisis is upon us: ecosystems are being eroded to the point of collapse, and species extinctions