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Silvio Berlusconi has always vaunted two major talents - an ability to control the media (both his own -  a substantial slice of tv and print - as well as those supposedly independent), and a masterful  ability to keep together seemingly shakey partnerships. It’s against this backdrop that his second wife, Veronica Lario, dropped a [...]

What was Silvio Berlusconi thinking, when he described the newly-elected Barack Obama as ‘young, handsome, and suntanned’, during a press conference in the Kremlin on Thursday? If Russian President Dmitry Medvedev knew, his face was giving nothing away, sitting impassively beside the grinning Italian.
There are two different perspectives, in Italy, regarding the Prime Minister’s [...]