Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1675
Some unexpected competition for Central Asian gas;
New homeland security measures for Russian transit
Some unexpected competition for Central Asian gas;
New homeland security measures for Russian transit
A week from today, a federal judge in San Diego has an opportunity to right a grievous wrong - to reverse last year's decision by the Department of Homeland Security to deny political asylum to a young Palestinian man who, over the course of a decade, prevented the deaths of potentially thousands of innocent people in Israel and the territories.
His name is Mosab Hassan Yousef and his life story, as recounted in his autobiographical Son of Hamas, reads like the best in historical fiction - though his extraordinary tale is true, confirmed by Israeli intelligence.
At long last, a Green charter;
The shipping shell game;
Religious sanction for "
special weapons"
Another incursion into Iraq
Vietnam and Japan get military hotlines with China;
More political reshuffling ahead of the 2012 Party Congress  
Beijing Maglev plans criticized in Chinese press;
China and Russia fret over heroin exports from Afghanistan