Though he initially endeared himself to the Maidan, the current front-runner in Ukraine’s presidential elections may be a status quo candidate after all. And Vladimir Putin seems to approve.

China is in the process of rescuing its citizens from Vietnam, and Hanoi is now trying to put a stop to the protests. But there are hints that a Chinese military convoy may be approaching Vietnam’s border.

Putin visits Xi in Beijing on Tuesday, and the biggest item on the two world leaders’ agenda will be the possible signing a long-discussed natural gas deal. Unfortunately for Vlad, China holds most of the leverage in these talks.

The real reason Putin annexed Crimea may have had more to do with vast energy reserves just off its coast than any sentimental attachment to Russian empire.

As the U.S. and Europe struggle to respond to Russian aggression in Ukraine, Moscow hopes to export its Orthodox-Nationalist ideology to Georgia—just as public cynicism towards Tbilisi’s pro-West political consensus is increasing.

Nigeria’s northern region, prey to Islamic insurgents, endures economic stagnation while the south prospers.

A federal commission found that an LNG export facility in Cove Point, Maryland, will have a “minimal impact” on its local environment. America is on the way to sharing its shale gas bounty.

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