[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8HNukRMuw&w=580&h=400] Name: Paul Wasserman Birth place: New York City, USA Age: 23 Occupation: Research assistant for Zbigniew Brzezinski at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Languages:...
Russia has launched air strikes in Syria, raising the stakes in its Arab ally’s fight against rebels. Four News-Decoder correspondents explain why. Syrians hold posters of President Bashar al-Assad, far left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Damascus, 4...
By Nelson Graves Here at News-Decoder we take stock on Fridays and look ahead to the next week’s news themes. It’s a way of making sense of developments that in the digital age can go by in a flash and confuse more than illuminate. Here’s a note I...
By Elaine Monaghan It was dark one night when Boris Yeltsin was still president of Russia, a few tumultuous years after communist rule ended. I wrapped up the closing shift at the Reuters office and drove across the Moscow River in my red, box-shaped Lada Niva. It was...