The breakup of the Soviet Union ended Russia's march to democracy

Putin's Russia can only be understood in the light of the national collapse triggered by the dissolution of the USSR

by Stephen Cohen


India's shame

Mohammad Afzal is due to hang for his part in the 2001 attack on India's parliament building. But was he only a bit player? And is the country trying to bury embarrassing questions about its war on terror?

by Arundhati Roy