The Russian Federation is a country of some 142 million peoples with an ethnic diversity of around 160 countable indigenous and minority groups. Is ethnic repression and violence inevitable in post-Soviet Russia?

With holiday bookings down 10% in Greece, how will the decline in the Greek tourism market affect its dire economic situation?

Traditionally, America has supported Israel through hell and high water, but with the events of 31 May coming at a time when Obama has signalled his intention to build a peace process based on practical concerns, as opposed to historical alliances, can Israel still rely on US support as a given?

Whatever the exact volume of oil being spewed into the Gulf, there is little doubt the US government is now dealing with a disaster of superlative proportions.

After promising to create ‘political earthquakes’, the smaller parties and independents barely troubled the Richter scale and did not do as well as many expected in the recent election.

Whilst there are weapons that can be acquired easily, drugs to sell and people to sell them to, the cartels will continue to fight the Mexican authorities. Bullets will continue to fly because the drug trade is just too lucrative.

As politicians model themselves on celebrities the British public is taking them less seriously and the boundaries between politics and showbiz are blurring.

The death last week of Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua has raised the spectre of increased instability in the oil-rich West African state, following months of ethnic and religious violence in the north. Pressure is mounting for new president Goodluck Jonathan to name his deputy amid concerns for Nigeria’s stability.

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Oh dear, we’ve broken politics. As one political commentator put it, the public hasn’t so much spoken as mumbled incoherently and stormed off. That said, politics has been crumbling for a while now, the …

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In the midst of the horrors of the Nazi holocaust in the Second World War, hid in the woods in Lithuania in 1944, were three Jewish brothers. The Nazis came for them, …

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Writing their semi-satirical 1969 hit about a former resident of Tucson, Arizona, Lennon and McCartney were hardly suggesting the most radical reorms to immigration policy in recent American history. Four decades later however …

There are no credible reasons for maintaining a so-called nuclear ‘deterrent’, so why do we have Trident at all?