Stories: Obama

• God’s Oligarch

  by Keating, Joshua | Russia | October 20, 2014

  If being the subject of international sanctions is causing Konstantin Malofeev any stress, he’s not showing it. “The sanctions are a very stupid instrument that only Obama and his administration could believe will have any impact. It has not damaged my business,” he says. The 40-year-old multimillionaire, though, does allow that the sanctions have “had...

• Granny Obama Puts Kenya Town on Map

  by Sharma, Sanchita | Kenya | June 22, 2012

  Mama Sarah Obama, 90, is Kisumu's biggest tourist attraction, even bigger than Lake Victoria, the world's second largest freshwater lake that hugs this town in western Kenya. Since her step-grandson Barack Obama became President and a Very Important Person, the road to her house has been named after her, her neighbourhood has got its own police station...