Michael Baron was born in Moscow, but moved to Australia at a young age. He is an IT consultant, founder and CEO of Baron Consulting and lectures at some of Australia's leading universities.
The recent Putin-Medvedev announcement has made a lame duck of President Medvedev, who clearly no longer has any significant say in matters political or economic. But did he ever? Were Russians not just going along with the deception, as older children do to get presents from Santa Claus, in whom
A public consultation is underway on the construction of an underground dump for 70 tonnes of nuclear waste in West Cumbria. Has the decision already been taken during cozy chats in private rooms?