In Soviet times, Western observers would scrutinise video footage of state occasions, like military parades on Red Square, to try to learn more about Kremlin hierarchy.
India's Supreme Court said the preliminary report into the Air India crash does not insinuate anything against the captain, but judges will consider a plea from the pilot's father for an independent investigation.
It's a year since the US put Donald Trump back in the White House and I've spent this anniversary week in Florida and in Pennsylvania - two worlds in one country where I found two such contrasting snapshots of Trump's America.