But the farcical process by which Herman Van Rompuy and Lady Ashton, two undoubted luminaries of public life, even if unknown to the vast majority of the population of the 27 EU member states, were selected, is even more delicious. Ukip's leaders must ...
Medvedev's condemnation of the gulags was bold – many Russians view Stalin as an icon of communism's old certainties An employee cleans a sculpture of Joseph Stalin, at a factory in St Petersburg. Photograph: Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters When Russian ...
Half-starved and racked with disease, the residents of Srebrenica endured conditions akin to Nazi ghettos. Tens of thousands were crammed into the drab city in eastern Bosnia, barely surviving on meagre UN aid supplies. Families huddled in bombed-out ...
These were moments to savour. Bernard Madoff sat at the head of the table and looked at the two rows of respectful, expectant faces. The boy from Queens, an unremarkable suburb of New York City, who dropped out of Alabama University and Brooklyn Law ...
I’ve spent much of the past 20 years living in or reporting on the former communist countries of Eastern Europe. Nowadays, with Budapest, Prague and Warsaw two hours away by budget airline, it’s hard to imagine that before 1989, half a continent was ...
The trouble with history in our part of the world, the old east European joke goes, is that you never know what is going to happen yesterday. Disgraced leaders are no longer airbrushed out of photographs, but numerous former Communist party hacks ...
Even with Twitter and Facebook on their side, the “Green Revolution” of media-savvy Iranian youth was apparently not to be. Text messages of 140 characters and fuzzy video clips uploaded from mobile telephones proved a meager defense against the guns ...
The strange trajectory of Benny Morris’s academic career is a vital guide for anyone trying to understand the collapse of the Israeli left and the peace movement. Morris is a professor of history at Ben-Gurion University in Israel and made his name ...
Eastern Europe is hurtling back to the future, nowhere more than in Hungary. This week, Jobbik, the far right party, allied to Britain’s BNP, won 14.8 per cent of the vote in the European elections. This gave the party, also known as the Movement ...
Cynics argue that because the United Nations was unable to stop the carnage in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, it set up war crimes tribunals instead, as a kind of humanitarian consolation prize. Confrontations With Humanitys Worst Criminals and the ...
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