Behind the protests in Ukraine lies the Russian president’s long-term vision of a Eurasian Economic Union. John Besemeres traces its recent history and the strains it has created in Russia’s “near abroad”.

There’s a different way of thinking about “news” and how it’s presented on television, writes Scott Bridges.

IT isn't often that Australia rates a mention in the European Union’s corridors of power. And that’s no bad thing: the long-running diplomatic stoushes with Canberra over agriculture and market access are seen here as water under the bridge. No news is definitely good news.

VIVIENNE McLean is torn. “I go to every march, I come to every meeting, I sign every petition,” the silver-haired activist tells me, laying out her credentials as an advocate on behalf of the estimated 11.7 million undocumented migrants in the United States. “But I am also a human being. I have to respond to...

"FROM a vantage point in the First World, debates around refugees carry a strong whiff of parochialism," Peter Gatrell observes in his excellent new book, The Making of the Modern Refugee.