From the Syrian war to sanctions on Iran, Russia is playing a visible role in the world. With new legislation passed by the Duma, the lower parliamentary chamber…
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is facing public pressure from protests after a video shows prison guards beating and raping inmates with blunt objects.
President Obama met with Russian President Vladimir Putin today in Los Cabos, Mexico for nearly two hours in a highly-anticipated sideline meeting during the G-20 summit meeting. The heads of state were expected to discuss important regional and international issues currently straining relations between the two superpowers.
Even post-Soviet, Russia still covers 11 time zones as it sprawls across nearly one-sixth of the Earth’s total land mass, making it physically the largest country in the world.
The leadership of California’s biotech industry was on display a few days ago when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it will allow Menlo Park’s own Geron Corp. to undertake the world’s first human treatment of spinal cord injuries using embryonic stem cells.
