http://www.dailyestimate.comInternational analysis and opinion.http://www.dailyestimate.comhttp://www.dailyestimate.com/images/rss_image.gif14223http://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=35&idSub=181&idArticle=20534An intellectual in Sarajevo told me last week that Bosnia is like a sick patient who needs hospital treatment but who is told he must recover before he can be admittedhttp://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=34&idSub=180&idArticle=20519Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans to use a visit this month to the United States to turn the tables on Barack Obama, saying he'll "speak to dissidents [to]let them tell me what problems the United States has."http://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=35&idSub=181&idArticle=20486Election monitors don't travel without a military escort and, under election rules, military vehicles couldn't go near the polling stations.http://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=35&idSub=181&idArticle=20482Iranian reformist groups, still alive and active despite brutal suppression, have announced that they will launch new demonstrations against President Mahmud Ahmadinejad on "Day of Jerusalem" this yearhttp://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=35&idSub=181&idArticle=15704Following Iran's announcement that it test-fired nine long-range and medium-range missiles, RFE/RL correspondent Jeremy Bransten spoke to Doug Richardson, editor of "Jane's Missiles and Rockets" magazine, about Iran's arsenal and its capabilities.http://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=35&idSub=187&idArticle=11236In naming a new government, President Vladimir Putin appears to have opted for stability instead of a major shake-up.http://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=35&idSub=175&idArticle=10596Russian explorers have successfully dived to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean and planted a Russian flag directly under the North Pole.http://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=35&idSub=173&idArticle=10487Russia is deep in the summer doldrums. But it's only a month until children return to school, and in some cases, to a new subject: 'The Foundations of Orthodox Culture'http://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=35&idSub=181&idArticle=10159'There won't be any progress, but there won't be a major collapse either. After Putin compared the United States to the Third Reich, any meeting that passes without such comparisons is going to seem like a success'http://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=35&idSub=175&idArticle=9857With no binding targets, and only a commitment to seriously consider future greenhouse-gas emissions cuts, does the deal amount to much?http://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=35&idSub=175&idArticle=9488Russian trade with the EU makes up 52 percent of Russia's foreign trade and 70 percent of all foreign investment in the Russian economy comes from the EUhttp://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=35&idSub=167&idArticle=8203The ICJ confirmed an earlier ruling by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia that events following the fall of Srebrenica to Bosnian Serb forces under the command of General Ratko Mladic did in fact constitute genocidehttp://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=35&idSub=181&idArticle=8138Now that a 21 February UN deadline for Tehran to halt uranium enrichment has passed, what comes next in the standoff?http://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=35&idSub=167&idArticle=8086The United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Egypt, and Lebanon also host large numbers of Iraqi refugees. Observers have called the crisis the largest Arab exodus in the Middle East since the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.http://www.dailyestimate.com/article.asp?idcategory=35&idSub=181&idArticle=8022The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed US plans to take in at least 7,000 Iraqi refugees. Washington will also provide some US$18 million to help with the larger problem of displaced people from Iraq.