MOSCOW: The good news is that Russia's parliamentary elections took place. Just three or four months ago it seemed that they would be postpo…

CAMBRIDGE: Amazing but true: there is, at long last, good political news from Russia and Ukraine. Both countries held elections recently (fo…

Modern technology has created the possibility of dramatically extending human life, but also a host of new practical and moral problems in t…

BUCHAREST: Across Eastern Europe throughout this year, people have celebrated their peaceful, victorious revolutions against communism. In R…

MOSCOW: The upcoming elections to the Duma have clouded minds in Russia and around the world, leading people to forget that on December 19 M…

CAMBRIDGE: On December 15th, Venezuela will vote in a referendum on a new Constitution. A landslide YES will demonstrate strong support for …

ZAGREB: Franjo Tudjman’s death, like his life, was a bizarre parody of Marshal Tito. Comparisons between Tudjman and Tito, however, are unde…

CAMBRIDGE: Ten years after the Berlin Wall’s collapse, Germans look at all the money spent in the East and can’t help feeling that something…

CAMBRIDGE: The Asian financial crisis barely over, the world economy faces another major eruption, one with even greater significance to the…

BELFAST: The French say that optimists are those who don’t understand a question. This week’s events in Northern Ireland contradict such cyn…

MOSCOW: Russia's politics are not those of the steppe. Russian voters cannot stroll to the left in one election, to the right in the next, u…

CAMBRIDGE: It is easy to idealize revolutions that happen somewhere else. Across the West, people have been celebrating the tenth anniversar…

ROME: Italy's economy has two faces. On one side, sectors of the economy demonstrate extraordinary productivity, and have won big shares of …

NEW YORK: Leonid Kuchma may have trounced his nearest contender -- the Communist Petro Simonenko -- but his recent election to a second five…

CAMBRIDGE: The IMF’s search for a new managing director will be attracting all the attention over the coming weeks and months, but the polic…

PRAGUE - Ten years ago today the Czechoslovak Communist power brutally intervened against a peaceful demonstration of students who had decid…

PARIS: Who lost Russia? Who is responsible for Russia's economic meltdown since 1990? Are bumbling politicians guilty, or grasping oligarche…

NEW YORK: Ten years after the Berlin Wall’s fall, the European Union may at last be redeeming its promised invitations of membership for for…

BERLIN: I learned that the Berlin Wall was falling during an official visit to Poland ten years ago. On the evening of November 9th, Prime M…

CAMBRIDGE: Most people are aware of the huge inequalities of income that now separate the developed and developing world. Fewer people recog…

BRUSSELS: Romano Prodi, the new President of the European Commission, has wasted no time in laying down a challenge on the biggest issue fac…

MOSCOW: The attempt ten years ago to create the first democratically elected parliament in the USSR proved to be the most unpredictable of G…

NEW YORK: Rejection by the US Senate of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was a torpedo aimed at the fragile global nuclear arms con…

CAMBRIDGE: Europe's economy is clearly on the upswing: growth forecasts run at 3% and even higher rates are quite possible. The world econom…

BEIJING: China has now finished celebrating the 50th anniversary of Mao's revolution, but the hangover cure that so many people in the West …