Tuesday 10 November '09
To Russia's once and possibly future president, Vladimir Putin, the collapse of the Soviet Union-two years after the fall of the...Tuesday 10 November '09
Why all the fuss about 1989? Twenty years on, the idea of millions of people yearning for the humdrum joys of daily life in welfare...Tuesday
10 November '09The East German people are now strengthening their unity under the leadership of the party."Monday
9 November '09Of all places it was in divided Berlin in divided Germany in divided Europe that the cold war erupted into an east-west street party,” this newspaper observed 20 years ago....Monday
9 November '09Picture yourself in a smoky café somewhere in the middle of Europe—Prague, say—in late 1989. Sipping muddy coffee sweetened with gritty sugar, served by a sullen waiter at a greasy table, you are discussing the future with friends....Monday
9 November '09The fall of the Berlin Wall was not big news in Russia. Neither was it a surprise. It was a logical consequence of the process that began in Moscow in 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power....Friday
6 November '09Scaremongering is where defence-planning and politics overlap. Big military exercises in western Russia and Belarus, which finished...Friday
6 November '09Fat, raccoon-faced, and with the severed head of one of his enemies at his feet, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Japan’s mightiest shogun, hardly looks like a heartthrob.Friday
6 November '09The story of Vincent van Gogh’s life is more heartbreaking, and heart-lifting, than the romantic myth that has enshrouded him for decades.Thursday
5 November '09That red wine is not to be paired with seafood is nearly a religious dogma among connoisseurs. Their reason is that the combination usually results in a strong and unpleasant fishy aftertaste.Thursday
5 November '09Thomas Malthus first published his “Essay on the Principle of Population”, in which he forecast that population growth would outstrip the world’s food supply, in 1798.Thursday
5 November '09Last year, as Lehman Brothers tottered, there was briefly hope that Barclays Bank would ride in with an 11th-hour bid.Thursday
5 November '09The slope down which America’s metropolitan newspapers are tumbling became steeper this week. On October 26th the Audit Bureau of Circulations...Wednesday
4 November '09Some time ago, just before the European Union enlarged to take in new members from Estonia to Cyprus, two senior EU officials debated...Wednesday
4 November '09A visit to Pakistan this week by Hillary Clinton, America’s secretary of state, was greeted in the grimmest possible fashion.Wednesday
4 November '09On one side of Flora Street is the Bill and Margot Winspear Opera House, an airy space designed by Norman Foster.Wednesday
4 November '09Thirty years ago Jacques-Yves Cousteau (pictured) was reckoned to be one of the ten most recognised men in the world.Tuesday
3 November '09The world is divided into two, according to Shachindra Nath, chief operating officer of Religare Enterprises, an Indian financial firm.Tuesday
3 November '09When he was elected president, Barack Obama made it plain that this was an event of some importance.Tuesday
3 November '09He has almost been cropped from the photograph, and his name is a blank in the key. An interpreter's lot, perhaps.Monday
2 November '09In India, drought sometimes turns to deluge. This summer the country suffered its worst monsoon since 1972, which left half its rural districts...Monday
2 November '09The girl is Lisbeth Salander, a tattooed bisexual waif with autistic tendencies, a profound distrust of all authority, astonishing ability...Monday
2 November '09When Michaëlle Jean, the governor-general of Canada, was described as “head of state” on her website earlier this month, the government...Monday
2 November '09Unaccustomed to operating far from its own shores, China’s navy is even less used to actual fighting. So news on October 19th that...Friday
30 October '09As the Americans prepare to go and an election looms, anxiety is rising again....
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