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Who will defend the defenders?

1:43 23.02.2012

Who will defend the defenders?

A recent TV film about Zhukov, for all its conventionality and weightiness, unexpectedly sharply raised the issue of the need to "defend" the defenders. One can read the biographies of great generals, Suvorov for example, and you will see hardly anyone of them avoid disgrace. It is not just about …

Iran-Caspian Basin: The Way To Global Project: Embargo for the Iranian oil import

18:57 17.02.2012

Iran-Caspian Basin: The Way To Global Project: Embargo for the Iranian oil import

Oil embargo of the European Union on Iran: punishment with postponement - “War of nerves” in the Persian Gulf - Oil import embargo on Iran January, 26, 2012 There are a number of factors nowadays which demolish the War Conceptions, well-established from the Clausewitz times on. The conception and practice …

When debt is red with blood. 150 years since the birth of Savva Morozov

13:49 16.02.2012

When debt is red with blood. 150 years since the birth of Savva Morozov

150 years ago, on the 3rd of February 1862, in the old style calendar, or 15th of February in the new calendar *Savva Timofeyevich Morozov was born in the Bogorosky district of Moscow. I always wondered how small Gorky’s characters, such as Clim Samgin and Bulychov stand next to a …

Syria: a prelude to war?

12:04 09.02.2012

Syria: a prelude to war?

Not long ago, before the tragic events in Syria began, Anglican pastor Padgett went to Homs, Aleppo and Damascus, to study the situation of the Christian communities there. He mingled with people of different social status and religion. He wrote in the wake of his fresh impressions "Everywhere in these …

The Abduction of Europe, or How Jupiter Became a Bull

15:00 02.02.2012

The Abduction of Europe, or How Jupiter Became a Bull

WE ARE WATCHING the "abduction of Europe": the European dream of many generations of great European politicians is melting away. It was immediately after the war that Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Konrad Adenauer, Paul-Henri Spaak and many others laid the ideological foundation of united Europe. …

The Miracle of the Nativity

14:23 13.01.2012

The Miracle of the Nativity

God was manifest in the flesh in order that we might know him and partake his life, in order that the very flesh could share his triumph, wrote Ephrem the Syrian in the IV century, adding a significant clarification that this triumph of God, if performed without appearing in the …

If War Comes Tomorrow...

15:20 08.01.2012

If War Comes Tomorrow...

The law, allowing the US President to significantly cut the Irranian oil export, caused plenty of comments and sharp response of Iran. Later on the situation with the anti-Iranian critisizm has blown away and softer notes from the both sides could be heard. This, certainly, does not change the matter …

Civil society is not born in the street

22:26 22.12.2011

Civil society is not born in the street

Civil society is maturing, not in the process of being born. Especially since it is not being born suddenly in Bolotnaya square or Revolutionary square... Recently, I was surprised to have read and heard of people, intelligent, and familiar with history, that the street can be the midwife of civil …

Why does Russia not like the rich?

19:03 19.12.2011

Why does Russia not like the rich?

This is not a parable, it is a true story. A rich man built a temple. He did not go to the temple to pray or to repent, or for communion. Maybe he had little belief, or maybe he was a complete unbeliever, but at least he respected the faith …

America's Pacific Vector: I'll Come to Hug You

15:00 17.11.2011

America's Pacific Vector: I'll Come to Hug You

"THE FUTURE OF POLITICS will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated in her article which appeared in the November 2011 issue ofForeign Policy under a powerful title "America's …

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