Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1486
New missile moves from Moscow;
Welcome words on energy investment
New missile moves from Moscow;
Welcome words on energy investment
Western human rights worries ahead of Russia's elections;
A tussle over the Arctic
Israel: Zero hour approaches;
Curbing the virtue committee;
Web fears in Damascus;
Riyahd's duplicitous role;
Al-Qaeda: Back in action...  
Defying all of its critics, the Bush administration may still be hanging tough in Iraq, but on another critical front of the 'War on Terror' – Central Asia – Washington appears to be in full strategic retreat.
A storm is brewing along the Bosporus. Since late April, when Turkey’s military issued a not-so-subtle threat to intervene in national politics to curb the power of the Islamist government, the country has been mired in political crisis. The current turmoil has everything to do with Turkey’s deepening religious-secular divide.