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Obama vs. Republicans: Patriotism put to Test

8:10 14.07.2011

Obama vs. Republicans: Patriotism put to Test

One of the paradoxes we are witnessing these days is that financial embarrassments hit the world's richest countries. The US Administration has no money for social security payments, while Brussels struggles to mobilize sufficient funds to keep its debt-ridden economies – Greece and Portugal – afloat and faces the prospects …

Gaddafi is not a Friend of Mine, but Truth is in All Cases a Better Friend

15:51 16.06.2011

Gaddafi is not a Friend of Mine, but Truth is in All Cases a Better Friend

A Western journalist boorishly asked Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, former head of Russia's Kalmykia and acting president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) who was giving a press conference in the wake of a tour of Libya, whether he had asked for NATO permit to cross into the country. Asking the media …

New Year in Reverse

15:00 26.05.2011

New Year in Reverse

IN RESPONSE to my lamenting about how difficult it is to choose a topic for an article at New Year, a historian I know said with a shrewd wink: "Write about New Year 'in reverse.'" Anticipating my bewilderment, he went on to say that he has long used this kind …

UN Reform: The European Perspective

15:00 24.05.2011

UN Reform: The European Perspective

The ongoing crisis of global governance naturally turnes the spotlight on the role and potential of the UN. The collapse of the bipolar system, the unipolar world inability, the mounting pressure of global challenges, the lingering financial crisis altogether created a climate of heightened expectations around the UN. While broad …

Reforming the UN: the European Vector

15:00 24.05.2011

Reforming the UN: the European Vector

AMID THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE the UN invites new approaches to its role and potential. In fact, collapse of the bipolar system, the obvious inadequacy of the unipolar world and the financial and economic crisis heated up the hopes and expectations pinned on the UN reform. It has been …

They Are 20th in Line: Children Talk About the War

15:00 05.05.2011

They Are 20th in Line: Children Talk About the War

"A TANK ROLLED DOWN our street. It stopped not far away... I saw three Germans climb out of the manhole; they were dressed all in black with skulls and cross-bones on their sleeves. Two of them began fixing the tank, while the third went into a nearby house. I followed …

Easter

14:20 28.04.2011

“It is the day of resurrection! Let us be illumined for the feast!” - even the air in the church seems to vibrate with joy when the Easter chant sounds during the celebration of the feast of feasts. A week before the resurrection, Jesus told Mary, the sister of Lazarus: …

Holy Week

8:27 21.04.2011

It may be the most convincing argument in favor of the godly origin of Christianity that no human would have thought of preaching about God being crucified. Saying that the notion would have looked illogical would be an understatement – human nature and mind with its “common sense” would have …

On Faith, a word

8:13 21.04.2011

On Faith, a word

Family doctor Richard Scott, 50, was accused of harassing one of his patients – a reportedly suicidal young man - for bringing up the theme of Christianity at workplace. The regulator, Great Britain's General Medical Council, issued an official warning to Scott who faces the risk of being dismissed from …

Gone with the Dream

15:00 14.04.2011

Gone with the Dream

A HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO, America entered its bloodiest war that was to last four years. The Civil War between the North and the South cost the lives of 620,000 people, which is almost equal to total American losses in all other wars. Two out of every three Americans …

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