By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya History has a strange way of replicating itself. Argentina has been going through a process similar to the post-1999 years, after Boris Yeltsin stepped down and Vladimir Putin took his place in the Kremlin as the president of the Russian Federation. While it has been struggling to throw off the foreign … Continue reading
By Stratfor Global Intelligence Social movements and activist groups are just one more challenge Brazil will face in a year of economic slowdown and political scandal. Protests over public transportation costs, land reform, work conditions and other issues have been on the rise in recent years and will test Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s second-term reform … Continue reading
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has decided not to restore Russia’s voting rights until April. Moscow was first stripped of its rights in PACE after Crimea joined Russia last year. In turn, Aleksey Pushkov, the chief of Russia’s PACE delegation and chairman of the State Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said: “We … Continue reading
By International Business Times Wu Changjiang, the former CEO of NVC Lighting, and employees of four major Chinese banks are being investigated by police for their alleged involvement in a $100 million fraud. NVC Lighting, China’s biggest lighting company, said that Wu and the bankers are suspected of helping to illegally divert company funds. According … Continue reading