CHICAGO, Nov. 16 (UPI) — “Yes, Marc, I have received the news of Vladimir Lomeiko’s untimely death,” Boris Pankin, the last Soviet foreign minister,…
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Nov. 2 (UPI) — On Nov. 17, 1989, students all over Czechoslovakia demonstrated against the Communist regime. On the afternoon of…
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Oct. 15 (UPI) –– Europe’s democracies are a strange lot. As the European Union, they are experts at economic soft power….
SOCHI, Russia, Sept. 30 (UPI) — In Sochi, politics and corruption converge on history. Even during Soviet times Sochi was the “baksheesh capital” of…
RIGA, Latvia, Sept. 10 (UPI) — Oskars Kastens, parliamentarian and until 2008 minister for social integration, represents a generation of youngish, competent and energetic…
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Aug. 24 (UPI) — The Big Dipper accompanied me the entire way from Weinheim, Germany, to Prague — a six-hour drive…
MALMO, Sweden, Aug. 11 (UPI) — The U.S. economic bailout is for the birds. Meanwhile, the United States continues to spend $16 billion per…
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 27 (UPI) — It might be true. I take Bulgarians seriously. It could just as well be my Andy Warhol moment. On…
OSTRAVA, Czech Republic, July 22 (UPI) — Nineteen years after communism’s demise, the Czech Republic is mostly a model of success. Still, many in…
OXFORD, England, July 3 (UPI) — Gen. Wesley Clark has served the United States with honor for 45 years — 38 of them in…