An op-ed by columnist Masha Lipman in the May 10 edition of The Washington Post: "Russia's strongman is losing his grip"

The English translation of an interview dated May 5 given by Thomas O. Melia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State with the Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet: "Hungarian Democracy is an American Interest"

 In the May 5-6 issue of The Wall Street Journal from the series "Masterpiece" a review by Leonard Cassuto:"Money, art, glory and sex in the greatest  of all American business novels" The masterpiece is: "The Financier" by Theodore Dreiser (1912)