Europe and Eurasia

Vladimir Putin wants the presidency. Will mass protests derail his plans?

Europe needs to have an open and democratic discussion about its future.

Uranium-rich Kazakhstan is fast becoming a strategic player among the Asian powers.

China is offering a bailout to Europe’s troubled economies. EU leaders should say “no thanks.”

European leaders are exasperated. Late last week they met for the tenth time in just 18 months and agreed to yet another package to rescue their troubled economies, but their efforts have once again failed to resolve the crisis.

The Libyan government is collapsing. The combined efforts of the Libyan rebels and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have made the regime of Muammar Gaddafi increasingly untenable.

Leaders in emerging economies such as China and

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is rocking the boat.