Archives » Thursday, September 13, 2007
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Owen Matthews
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Sep 13, 2007 06:00 PM
An interesting evening at the annual party thrown by Ekho Moskvy, Russia's last remaining outspoken political radio station. (I say outspoken, rather than independent, because it's actually owned by the state-owned Gazprom Media.) The venue: the Praga restaurant, once a top Soviet nightspot, now a monument to mid-1990s kitsch, complete with fake malachite pillars and gold lame curtains. The star guest, among many minor Duma members, retired Kremlin apparachiks and assorted diplomats: Andrei Lugovoi, alleged poisoner of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, wanted for murder by the British Crown Prosecution Service. Lugovoi looked, as usual, cheerful and well, sporting a bright orange tie in an apparent ironic reference to the liberal sympathies of most of those present (supporters of Ukraine's pro-Western, anti Moscow 'Orange' revolution).
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Stryker McGuire
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Sep 13, 2007 03:41 PM
I've been watching, again and again, TV clips of Margaret Thatcher going into her old home, 10 Downing Street, today on the arm of her latest successor, Gordon Brown. She may be frail at 81, but her political legacy remains as tough as steel, appropriately...
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Melinda Liu
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Sep 13, 2007 09:00 PM
Despite its economic clout, China's military may not have what it takes to subdue Taiwanese forces in the event of open conflict in the Taiwan Strait -- at least not yet. Taipei's military is still reckoned to have an edge over its rival, but only just....
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