Programming alert in the U.S.: Nicolas Sarkozy will be on “Charlie Rose” Wednesday night to talk about Segolene Royal, Jacques Chirac, Iraq, immigration, the 2005 Paris riots, Turkey’s EU bid, U.S.-French relations, and his”multipolar” view of the world today. One excerpt: Nicolas Sarkozy: Madame Royal is promising people that they’ll work less.   What I’m [...]

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Two interesting articles out recently on Belarus highlight the difficulties experienced by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko following the recent spat over energy prices with Russia and the new round of introspection inside Russia itself on how things went wrong with Belarus and what Moscow should do now. The first, by Jan Maksymiuk at RFE, argues [...]

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