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Renaissance of Ethnic Separatism In «United Europe»

15:00 16.08.2010 Pyotr Iskenderov

Renaissance of Ethnic Separatism In «United Europe»

New serious inter-ethnic conflicts are brewing in Europe as it battles the global economic crisis. Typically they are deeply rooted in history, but the very fact that the renaissance of ethnic separatism in Europe is taking place in the epoch of European integration is noteworthy. Obviously, the enlargement of NATO …

Two Years Since the Five-Day War

15:00 14.08.2010 Andrey Areshev

Two Years Since the Five-Day War

The International Association of Ossetian Communities held rallies in several European cities on the eve of the anniversary of Georgia's aggression against South Ossetia. In Brussels, Strasbourg, Berlin, and Ankara, protesters demanded the recognition of South Ossetia's independence, official condemnations of the Georgian policy, and the release of Ossetian prisoners. …

The End Has not Come Yet

15:00 12.08.2010 Armen Oganesyan

The End Has not Come Yet

THE SMOKE OF BURNING PEAT BOGS and forests and the losses they caused detracted us for a while from the far from comforting picture of planetary dimensions. Here is the frightening statistics of the year 2010 when big and small catastrophes shook the world: erupting volcanoes grounded aircrafts all over …

US armed forces in Central Asia – built to last

15:00 12.08.2010 Alexander Shustov

US armed forces in Central Asia – built to last

The US plans to build military training centers in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. First these plans were announced last year and they received a wide response because earlier it had been announced that a Russian military base would be built in the south of Kyrgyzstan. Now Pentagon is not going to …

Arms Control: the US Continues Violating Its Obligations

15:00 11.08.2010 Yuri Rubtsov

Arms Control: the US Continues Violating Its Obligations

Russia's Foreign Ministry responded to the July release of the US State Department's 2010 Report on Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments. The Report contained allegations that Russia violated the nonproliferation regime. Initially, Russia's Foreign Ministry posted a brief comment on its Web …

War Against Iran as a Method of Promoting Globalism

15:00 09.08.2010 Dmitri Sedov

War Against Iran as a Method of Promoting Globalism

There is little doubt that the US will hit Iran after pulling its troops out of Iraq. Military spending in the US has gained too much momentum to leave any hope that the current dynamics will change in the foreseeable future. The US military-industrial complex and its Pentagon partners have …

Middle East at the Point of Boiling

15:00 09.08.2010 Elena Pustovoytova

Middle East at the Point of Boiling

The truth is that the UN peacekeepers deployed at the Holan Heights are basically safeguarding the interests of Israel. Separating the aggressor and the victims of aggression is hardy the right way to bring the conflict to its final point. Reassuring UN reports notwithstanding, it will still be the point …

Ukraine's Hot Summer a Prologue to Plenty of Heat in the Fall

0:20 06.08.2010 Armen Oganesyan

Ukraine's Hot Summer a Prologue to Plenty of Heat in the Fall

The political intrigue in Ukraine is spinning off. Signs are everywhere that serious developments loom on the horizon, a rumor of big asset grabs goes around, the natural gas pricing theme constantly pops up in the headlines, and, accordingly, Russia is at the epicenter as the media debates rage. Driving …

Hiroshima and Modernity

15:00 05.08.2010 Taras Dyachenko

Hiroshima and Modernity

Sixty five years ago, on August 6, 1945, US bomber B-29 dropped a nuclear bomb which was roughly 2,000 times more powerful than the biggest munitions used over the entire past history on the Japanese city of Hiroshima *** Fighting ended in Europe in May, 1945, but the war still …

Tensions over the European External Action Service

15:00 04.08.2010 Pyotr Iskenderov

Tensions over the European External Action Service

The situation is unfolding on the UN highest court`s verdict on Kosovo`s independence. Now that the legality of Kosovo`s 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia has been recognized, the West seems to be pushing forward its 'offensive' on the Bosnian Republika Srpska to achieve success on this stage of anti-Serbian …

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