Zbigniew Brzezinski

Democracy Digest: Fast Sprint to Warsaw; Tucker’d Out in Budapest

With Poland, which already hosts a growing number of Belarusian exiles, immediately offering the 24-year-old sprinter a humanitarian visa, Timanovskaya took refuge in the Polish embassy in Tokyo until a flight to Warsaw could be arranged. Contrary to expectations, she didn't fly directly to Warsaw, but took a detour to the Austrian capital Vienna instead.

The new 'Great Game': What awaits us?

New players who were on the sidelines of the Cold War's bipolar global order have now rejoined the fray. Despite the global financial crisis, the "Middle Kingdom" has conquered a place on almost all of the world's playing fields. Beijing has positioned itself to challenge the dollar as the global reserve currency and extend its position of power throughout the world.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, US National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, Dies at 89

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s, died on Friday at a hospital in Virginia. He was 89.