This year's Eurovision contest, that annual international circus of lunacy where countries from all over the planet compete for cheeseball pop supremacy, is being held in Moscow. And Georgia has already learned the hard way that Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin doesn't take kindly to snotty lit...

Think of this as Volume 12, Number 10 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. A quiet economic war is now being fought and the future of Europe hangs in the balance. As with much of the Cold War this struggle is mostly happening in secret. Unlike the Cold War (until, as ...

Image via Wikipedia Tri-City Herald In some of his strongest criticism of his successors, Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday likened Vladimir Putin's United Russia party to the worst of the communists he once led and helped bring down, and said Russia is today a country where the parliament and the judic...

For nearly a decade, hard-nosed security-service veterans and bean-counting economists have comprised the two key pillars of Vladimir Putin's authoritarian regime in Russia....

MOSCOW (SR) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned the Obama administration against adopting further socialism, saying Russian history clearly proves it is a recipe for failure. “Any fourth grade history student knows socialism has failed in every country, at every time in histor...

Four men accused of helping to organise the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya were today acquitted by a court in Moscow, amid claims by human rights activists that those responsible for her death are still at large. Two Chechen brothers, Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, together wi...

It was a highly exclusive concert. In fact, when the Abba tribute band Björn Again took to the stage there were just eight people in the audience, tactfully screened off from the performers by a bizarre gauze curtain. According to the band's founder Ron Stephen, however, the guest of honour at the ...

As we peer out through the swirling dust of the shitstorms , it is clear we have entered a strange world where left is right, and right is left, up is down and most people don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. The Democrats are the New Hoovers, and Vladimir Putin is a libertarian free mark...

Image by World Economic Forum via Flickr GlobalResearch.ca Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum Davos, Switzerland January 28, 2009 Good afternoon, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the forum's organisers for this opportunit...

Vladimir Putin seems hell-bent to let the world know what an asshole he is. Meeting Michael Dell at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Putin spurned Dell's offer of technological help, The New York Times reports. Following a speech Wednesday at the World Economic......