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Syria: who will take responsibility for the «Responsibility to Protect»?

13:43 11.09.2013 Armen Oganesyan

Syria: who will take responsibility for the «Responsibility to Protect»?

In a twitter debate with the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Alexei Pushkov, the U.S. ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaul, observed that: "He (President Obama) wants to protect the rule of international law prohibiting the use of chemical weapons." This position, …

Multiculturalism: War or Peace?

15:23 19.08.2013 Armen Oganesyan

Multiculturalism: War or Peace?

The concept of multiculturalism cannot be credited narrowly to Europe, considering that Canada, Australia, and the US have decades-long records of putting the design into practice. There are bumps on the road in all cases – the US, for example, has to grapple with concerns over the looming demographic imbalance …

Appreciating Nature and Being Environmentally Aware Widely Taught in Cuba

16:11 05.07.2013 Alexander Moiseyev

Appreciating Nature and Being Environmentally Aware Widely Taught in Cuba

Researchers from one of Latin America's biggest botanical gardens - the Soroa Orchid Botanical Garden sited in the province of Artemisa, not far from Havana – floated a new program aimed at helping children develop environment awareness. Overall, it is a strongly held belief in Cuba that teaching to appreciate …

A Travel Route in Remembrance of English Novelist Jane Austen

19:13 04.07.2013 Saadat Kadyrova

A Travel Route in Remembrance of English Novelist Jane Austen

There is no shortage of serious literature portraying Great Britain or of booklets intended to lure tourists to the country, but - now that the season of summertime vacations is at full swing – the time is right for yet another suggestion to turn attention to this part of the …

Todor Minkov, Russo-Bulgarian Enlightener

16:06 03.07.2013 Vladislav Gulevich

Todor Minkov, Russo-Bulgarian Enlightener

The grave of Todor Minkov, an outstanding Bulgarian enlightener, was discovered in a state of total neglect in the midst of a historical cemetery in Drahichyn, Belarus, in 2012 [1]. On January 4, 2013, a convention, attended by diplomats from the embassy of Bulgaria in Belarus, gathered in Mensk to …

The Great Mongolian Gold Rush

17:05 02.07.2013 Anna Tomkins

The Great Mongolian Gold Rush

Today Mongolia is attractive to foreign investors in many sectors of the economy, the most dynamic of which are tourism and the development of mining for gold and other precious metals, and the center of attention for this is the Gobi Desert. There is a place in the Mongolian Gobi …

World Energy: From the «Shale Revolution» to Healthy Pragmatism? (II)

16:29 17.06.2013 Pyotr Iskenderov

World Energy: From the «Shale Revolution» to Healthy Pragmatism? (II)

Part IThe two-day international «EU-Russia Energy Dialogue» conference which took place May 29-30, the eighth such conference so far, was once again unable to overcome the stalemate between Moscow and Brussels in the field of energy. The leadership of the European Union still insists that Russia accede to the so-called …

What is it, Polish Orthodoxy?

20:26 14.06.2013 Vladislav Gulevich

What is it, Polish Orthodoxy?

"An Orthodox Pole," sounds as unusual as a "Russian Catholic." The Polish national character is as inseparable from Catholicism as the Russian character is from Orthodoxy. But there is not only a Catholic Poland, but an Orthodox Poland.Who ever happens to have been in eastern Poland, could see Catholic churches …

«Intuitive Havana», by Maria Valdez

13:08 03.06.2013 Alexander Moiseyev

«Intuitive Havana», by Maria Valdez

“...With her art, this talented and original girl has paved another scenic bridge between Moscow and Havana, between Russia and Cuba." That thought haunted me when a few days ago I viewed the paintings of the young (and beautiful!), Moscow artist Maria Santiagovna Valdez, in the Phoenix exhibition Hall. Talking …

Parliamentary diplomacy: the Latin American vector

3:24 30.05.2013 Andrey Davydenko

Parliamentary diplomacy: the Latin American vector

From 14th to 17th May, an official delegation of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation headed by Chairman V. I. Matviyenko visited Mexico and Cuba. They were an integral part of the parliamentary dimension of the whole multi-vectored foreign policy, which modern Russia effectively applies based on the principles …

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