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Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 12, 2014
Mickey Rourke shows off Putin T-shirt in Moscow hunt for boxing partner
Mickey Rourke on Monday stocked up on T-shirts emblazoned with a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin as the U.S. actor and boxer visited a central Moscow department store.
COMMENTARY / World
May 2, 2014
Can Russia fix its mess in Ukraine?
Russian President Vladimir Putin can neither resolve the crisis in east Ukraine nor admit his powerlessness to end what he started. Kiev needs to find a way to negotiate with the local elite and law enforcers, providing convincing guarantees of safety.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 7, 2014
Securing the Sochi Olympics
Parallel to the Sochi Olympics, another contest is already under way between the terrorists who seek to disrupt the games and the security forces of the Russian state.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 17, 2013
Moscow's not-so-friendly environmental quirks
Moscow, they say, "wasn't built at one go" — in contrast to St. Petersburg, which emerged laid out, as if by magic, in strict conformity to Peter the Great's plan — and it has been growing chaotically for more than 800 years on seven gently sloping hills surrounding the river of the same name.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past