Skater Boitano comes out, will represent U.S. at Olympics
Olympic figure skating champion Brian Boitano came out Thursday, two days after he was named to the U.S. delegation for Sochi along with openly gay athletes Billie Jean King and Caitlin Cahow.
Russian Communists must stand against LGBTQ persecution
We have a saying: "An injury to one is an injury to all." Diminishing the rights of gays and lesbians diminishes rights for all Russians and creates an anti-democratic mood.
Russia adopts law against “gay propaganda”
"The government is using homophobia and xenophobia to justify its policies against an independent civil society."
Is the world of advertising swallowing Russia?
Moscow seems engulfed by the modern world of advertising; the signs, ads and billboards sometimes remind me of Times Square.
Russian Communists make big gains in elections
Results of Russia's Dec. 4 parliamentary elections have upended the United Russia party's dominance of the government. They foreshadow new challenges to current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
World Notes: Australia, Iran, Cuba and more
Global warming and coral reefs; rape as an act of war; nuclear weapons, Russian labor laws and Venezuelan nationalization
On eight-nation trip, Chavez promotes multi-polar world
On a eight-country tour, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed 69 agreements and said his country seeks to build a multi-polar world.
Don't let Party of No stop new START treaty!
After years out of the headlines - and out of most people's minds - this year nuclear weapons policy and the path to complete abolition has come to the fore again.
World Notes: China, Afghanistan, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, Germany, Cuba
China-Russia ties, Afghanistan deaths, green industry in Caribbean, Nigeria's oil, lifetime jobs in Germany, U.S.-Cuba trade.
World Notes: Russia, Nepal, Israel, Uganda, Venezuela, Cuba
Nepal: World's highest cabinet meeting sends message on global warming.
