Politics
Moscow Outmaneuvers Washington’s Kurdistan Project
For the moment it looks as if Russian three-dimensional geopolitical chess moves in the turbulent Middle East have thrown a giant monkey wrench into Washington plans to create an independent Kurdistan. In September the Kurdish...
Is Putin a Tsar, Really?
The first time I took on The Economist was in 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev appointed Eduard Schevarnadze as Foreign Minister after the death of Andrei Gromyko, known in the West for his intransigence. When The Economist headlined something like...
The Tragedy of Sewol: A New Investigation?
On 13 October 2017, the new presidential administration of the Republic of Korea filed a petition to the prosecutor's office about the start of a new investigation into the tragedy of the vehicle-passenger ferry Sewol. The ferry, carrying...
