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Medvedev posturing over Kurils threatens improved relations between Moscow and Tokyo
Russia is pursuing an ambitious grand strategy: divide break up the EU, undermine Nato, writes Anne Applebaum
Diplomats agonised on announcement and scale of tit-for-tat spy expulsions
Facts of geopolitics demand that the west continue to do business with Putin
Reunification shows nothing has to stay as it is, says chancellor
Russia accused of supplying rebels with heavy weaponry and new fighters
Former Soviet leader accuses west of triumphalism after fall of Berlin Wall
The Republicans’ midterm sweep has left the White House isolated
‘The Great Communicator’ shows how to deploy facts and figures
Ukraine’s role and how Mikhail Gorbachev, George HW Bush and Boris Yeltsin were resistant to the break-up
Pontiff shows decisiveness in seeking to overhaul Holy See
Last Soviet foreign minister helped end Cold War
Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist ruler, dies at 90
A ranking of leaders finds a low-key approach and modest ambition has more impact than moralism and rhetorical flourish
The president must decide which constituency – the US or the world – is his ‘real’ one
John Gapper reviews The AIG Story by Maurice R. Greenberg and Lawrence A. Cunningham
Progress is being made on fund fees and transparency
I suspect Mitt Romney would be far more pragmatic in reality than the persona he adopted
Sun Myung Moon earned mass following and condemnation as cultist
US conservatism has no greater icon than Reagan, invoked at every turn
While nobody is talking of a Moscow spring, there is a definite thaw under way
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