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Cold serving, Russia supersizes its beef with McDonald's
Hold the freedom fries! The re-brewed Cold War is mashing another food icon as Russian regulators try to take some of the gleam off the golden arches. Former Canadian ambassador Jeremy Kinsman looks at this sudden souring of fast-food diplomacy.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17: Don't turn downing of jet into a Cold War club
All we really know at this point, writes former diplomat Jeremy Kinsman, is that the downing of Malaysian Flight MH17 has created a critical moment when this extended Russia-Ukraine crisis could go one of two ways. One of those ways is very bad.
Analysis
How the West – and Vladimir Putin – failed Ukraine
Russia's Vladimir Putin is a big factor in how the tragedy in Ukraine came about, former ambassador Jeremy Kinsman writes. But Western democracies aren't entirely blameless either for the way Ukrainian hopes have been dashed since independence.
Analysis
The Sochi Olympics and the making of 'Putin the Great'
It is widely written that the Sochi Olympics are a sales job to the world, as Beijing's were in 2008. But they are more a sales job to Russians themselves, an attempt to have patriotic pride trump dissent with Putin's authoritarian rule, former ambassador Jeremy Kinsman writes.
Great expectations: Barack Obama and the world
Jeremy Kinsman column on Barack Obama