Lithuanian mainstream media and think-tank analysts view the Paksas affair, and now the Prunskiene candidacy, in the context of Russian attempts to change Lithuania's -- and other ex-Soviet-ruled countries' -- western orientation by exploiting various internal economic or political vulnerabilities. In the case of Lithuania, this is almost certainly the lastchance for Moscow.

Even air pollution levels far higher than any we experience in the United States are perfectly safe. Thenation's air does not cause adverse health effects.

The significance of this sudden discovery of a soft spot for Mr Putin lies in the Bush administration's plan for a missile defence system and the burial of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Kazakhstan’s negotiations to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) will have far-reaching consequences for its future economic and political development—the reforms demanded by WTO membership will determine whether the country moves along a path of market-based development or remains mired in dysfunctional command-and-control policies and institutions. WTO membership and the...

TheEnvironmental Protection Agency's proposalto tighten ozone regulation poses a significant risk of public harm with little reason to expect much in the way of benefits.

The Environmental Protection Agency's new ozone regulations are self-defeating, punish the American people unfairly, and ignore the gains we have made in reducing air pollution.

Civil society returned to Poland at the end of World War II, but it still remains absent in Putin's Russia.