World economies in the past few months could be said to have reached the stage of recovery from the global recession. But what do we really consider recovery? What criteria of a recovery from a…
Category: Europe
A Chinese New Year concert in Vienna will be the prelude to Austria’s “Year of China,” which marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of China-Austria diplomatic ties, the Chinese embassy in Vienna said Tuesday….
Thousands of Americans, Europeans and others from various parts of the world strongly believe that the end of the world is near and everything will be ruined in 2012. They are spending millions of dollars…
The political, economic, and socio-cultural landscape of the world is changing, so too are governments around the globe adjusting to the tides. Both China and UK are global players of significant importance. With the start of a new…
Judge Victor Danilkin on December 30 found former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev guilty of stealing and laundering billions of dollars of oil revenues. But there are debates both in Russia, and…
David Beckham could star at the London 2012 Olympics by playing or coaching the Great Britain football team, according to organizing committee chairman Sebastian Coe. Although football is played as an Under-23 tournamenent at the…
Last weekend, “cozy, comfortable Sweden received a brutal reminder that it is both a participant and a target in the war against terrorism…The country’s domestic intelligence service announced that it was treating two explosions –…
Russia is a corrupt, autocratic kleptocracy centered on the leadership of Vladimir Putin, in which officials, oligarchs and organized crime are bound together to create a “virtual mafia state”, according to leaked secret diplomatic cables…
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned that the country would find it necessary to build up its nuclear forces, if the United State’s doesn’t ratify a new arms reduction treaty. That could possibly mean a…
A series of decisions arrived at, by NATO members during last month’s summit in Lisbon signaled a willingness from the organization to change some of its tactics in achieving goals that could largely be of benefit,…