Новости за 14.05.2016

Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Brazil's Senate voted to try President Dilma Rousseff on impeachment charges, which suspends her from office. Here's what you must know to understand the vote.

Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Defense experts back a stronger deterrent against Russia. They overstate the threat.

Robin Wright, New Yorker
Mustafa Badreddine, one of the architects of Islamic terrorism, masterminded one of the longest-running sprees of violence in the Middle East.

Richard Giragosian, Moscow Times
On April 2, the long dormant Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted as Azeri forces launched a military offensive. The brief, but intense, four-day war revealed the volatility of this so-called "frozen" Karabakh conflict.

Andrew Nagorski, Daily Beast
The tortuous route to apprehending the Holocaust's chief henchman was full of surprises. No one could believe what squalor Eichmann lived in, or how ordinary he seemed.

J. Freedland, Guardian
Rather than laughing along with the Republican candidate and former London mayor, media interrogators should confront them.

Allison Fedirka, Geopolitical Futures
Politically speaking, there is a crisis of confidence among the Brazilian people toward elected government officials. Not unlike other countries, the general public view in Brazil is that the vast majority of politicians holding office are corrupt and cannot be trusted to govern.

Andrew Hawkins, The Verge
Thanks to a burgeoning middle class and an economy that has blossomed in the past decade (recent stumbles aside), China is widely viewed by many companies as the next frontier for growth — but it's not easy, and it's not cheap. A couple months ago, Kalanick confessed that his company's efforts to grow in China were costing him about $1 billion a year, a revelation he later tried to tamp down in an interview with Reuters. "If you took our top 30 cities today... Читать дальше...

Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
The Ukraine crisis and Russian pressure have encouraged NATO and non-NATO countries in Eastern and Northern Europe to work more closely together.

Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
With the Middle East peace process lying dead in the water for two years, what harm could come from an effort led by France?

Steven Metz, WP Review
The United States cannot re-engineer the Islamic world, but it can limit the damage to U.S. interests by supporting tolerable governments, while applying limited amounts of U.S. military power.Â

Steven Cook & Amr Leheta, For. Policy
The focus on the century-old accord is a product of bad history and shoddy social science.

Gwee Li Sui, New York Times
SINGAPORE — Is the government's war on Singlish finally over? Our wacky, singsong creole may seem like the poor cousin to the island's four official languages, but years of state efforts to quash it have only made it flourish. Now even politicians and officials are using it.

Justin Rowlatt, BBC
The Ganges is one of the greatest rivers on Earth, but it is dying. From the icy Himalayan peaks, where it begins, right down to the Bay of Bengal, it is being slowly poisoned.

Andrew Browne, Wall Street Journal
The Cultural Revolution is no longer just an ugly chapter in China's past. Its brutal legacy haunts President Xi Jinping's “China dream.”