by Samir Atallah | Oct 22, 2016 | Opinion
I am reading about the last days of Boris Yeltsin’s presidency and the early days of Vladimir Putin’s in Steven Lee Myers’ book “The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin”. I am looking for signs. Yeltsin kept his decision to resign a secret, even from his...
File photo of a giant Azerbaijan flag in Baku. (OSMAN KARIMOV/AFP/Getty Images)
by Amir Taheri | Apr 5, 2013 | Opinion
By all accounts Azerbaijan should be Iran’s closest ally. The tiny republic on the Caspian Sea is home to nine million people with strong ethnic, historic, and religious ties to the Iranian people. Almost 80 percent speak Azeri, an Altaic language with a...
