As Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Medvedev jockey for support in the presidential elections in 2012, the deal could come back to haunt Medvedev. It may just fade away as more pressing problems, like Metro suicide bombings, take over the headlines.

“Chermany” spoke last week and the world listened. Let me introduce you to Chermany, a composite of the world’s biggest net exporters: China, with a forecast current account surplus of $291bn this year and Germany, with a forecast surplus of $187bn.

The attacks are a major test for Medvedev. If he doesn’t handle things well, Putin might be strengthened and the reset put in danger. Americans would also do well to reflect on the implications of the attacks for Russia, U.S.-Russian relations and American foreign policy.

The Eurasian land area resembles a geopolitical game of three-dimensional chess between Russia, the EU and Washington. The stakes of the game are a matter of life and death for Russia as a functioning nation, something clearly Medvedev and Putin well realize at this point.

This altered geopolitical configuration in central Eurasia after the defeat of the Orange Revolution gives a strong boost now to Russia’s long-term energy strategy—a strategy that we might call Russia’s North-South-East-West Strategy.

The Chinese government is wary of the precedent that a system of robust sanctions against either Iran or North Korea might set. That is why Beijing was unenthusiastic about calls for a UN Security Council endorsement for the NATO wars in the Balkans during the 1990s.

The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2009 on March 11, 2010, posing as "the world judge of human rights" again. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009 is prepared to help people around the world.

The Swiss researcher Alexander Dorin said that he wrote his book “Srebrenica — The History of Salon Racism” for those who wish to learn the truth about the events Western mainstream media sold as “Srebrenica massacre” and even “genocide”, in order to justify their war against the Serbs.

Many opponents of the House version of banking reform present their position as one of principle. House Republicans claimed that they would end banking excesses by introducing “market discipline” — basically, by promising not to rescue banks in the future.

Europe 's security, though, remains a constant task, and new challenges require different responses than in the past. The Euro-Atlantic region needs peace and stability at home, but it also needs protection against external threats.