The South Korean National Assembly impeached President Park Geun-hye in December with a 234-56 vote, shattering the mandated 200-vote threshold. It was at last a significant development for a South Korean government beleaguered by an unprecedented political crisis. In late October, scandals surrounding Park and
Over the past 30 years, China has undergone an immense economic and social transformation. For centuries, China was predominately an agrarian society where the vast majority lived in rural villages. However, in the beginning of the late imperial period a shift began to emerge as
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian citizens found themselves in a completely transformed and alien environment. At first glance, the new capitalistic freedoms seemed alluring, but Russians were soon disillusioned by the arrival of gangs and increased criminal activities. Factories tied
Art historians call Yaroslavl the, “Florence of the Russian North,” for its rich cultural and historical heritage and the magnificent architectural ensembles of sixteenth to twentieth centuries presented there. Situated at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl Rivers 250 km northeast of Moscow, Yaroslavl
Of the major oil producing nations in the world, Venezuela appears to be the least able to cope with the price collapse over the last two years. The South American country, which happens to be home to the largest oil reserves in the world, has
The Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB) has been a lightening rod for western analysts, think-tanks and media that believe China represents a threat to not only the US and its allies’ interests, but also the broader post-World War II international order. The China-led AIIB,
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must” -Melian Dialogue From the legal point of view, all states are equal and sovereign, in reality, terms such as ‘super powers’ and ‘small states’ are often used for purposes of definition. Professor Matthias
Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, Tenzing Norgay, Edmund Hillary. All are names of explorers famous for reaching places considered unreachable. Peary reached the North Pole in 1909, and Amundsen reached the South Pole in 1911, just beating Robert Falcon Scott’s British expedition by five weeks. Norgay
On November 3rd, 2016, Mariano Rajoy was re-elected as the Prime Minister of Spain. It was a long and complicated process. The Spanish general election – in which Parliament's 350 seats were up for grabs – took place more than 10 months prior to his re-election and
