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The Korean Peninsula: a Territory of Recurring Crises

14:00 29.11.2010 Oleg Revenko , Alexander Vorontsov

The Korean Peninsula: a Territory of Recurring Crises

A new escalation took place on the Korean Peninsula. The crisis began to unravel when a US envoy who visited N. Korea stated that up to 2,000 centrifuges were installed at the Yongbyon uranium enrichment facilities. The number, albeit too low to worry that the production of weapons-grade plutonium was …

As hope of euro fails, Europe’s fate depends on Germans

14:00 28.11.2010 Vladimir Nesterov

As hope of euro fails, Europe’s fate depends on Germans

On November 23, the German newspaper Die Welt wrote: “Hopes that euro will unite the society have failed”. On the contrary, the gap between the countries, which earlier had unstable currencies, and the countries, which were heading to stability, has become wider. Germans do not understand the love for consumption, …

The West stakes everything on parliamentary elections in Moldova

14:00 27.11.2010 Bogdan Tsirdya

The West stakes everything on parliamentary elections in Moldova

An election campaign Moldova has been witnessing as it prepares to vote for a new parliament on 28 November has turned to be rather tense, partly because of the West's meddling into the process. The campaign had just begun when twenty-seven foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) paid their …

Radical Islam attacks Central Asia

14:00 26.11.2010 Alexander Shustov

Radical Islam attacks Central Asia

Hizb ut-Tahrir and other similar international radical Islamic political organizations have intensified their activities in Central Asia. In Tajikistan several dozens of members of Hizb ut-Tahrir have been arrested. During such arrests police usually finds batches of books, brochures, CDs with the propaganda of radical Islam. In August, a court …

Central Asia Warring Over Water

14:00 25.11.2010 Alexander Shustov

Central Asia Warring Over Water

The water dispute between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan stemming from the Rogun hydroelectric plant project and the related problem of water volumes availability intensified this fall. One of the causes behind the escalation is that Tajikistan is about to face the traditional seasonal electricity rationing, another – that Russia's involvement in …

The Lisbon Reset

14:00 21.11.2010 Elena Ponomareva

The Lisbon Reset

The adoption of a new strategic concept by NATO at the alliance's Lisbon summit is a development of historical proportions which in many respects directly affects Russia's interests. Stating clearly that “NATO poses no threat to Russia”, the document reflects strategic shifts in NATO's relations with the country. The pledge …

The Nuremberg Trial: To Early to Belong to Archives

14:00 20.11.2010 Alexander Mezyaev

The Nuremberg Trial: To Early to Belong to Archives

November 20, 2010 is the 65th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trial, which took 11 months and ended with death sentences to 12 key Nazi war criminals. Thoroughly studied by historians, the Trial nevertheless remains terra incognita in some aspects, and its perception is heavily burdened with stereotypes. For example, these …

An apparition at NATO’s Lisbon summit

14:00 18.11.2010 M.K. Bhadrakumar

An apparition at NATO’s Lisbon summit

The NATO forces aren’t going anywhere from Afghanistan. They will remain in the Hindu Kush for as long as it takes. Richard Holbrooke, United States Special Representative for AfPak is on record that the Lisbon summit will have on its agenda no exit strategy for Afghanistan but rather a mere …

An Epilogue to the Seoul Summit

14:00 18.11.2010 Vladimir Nesterov

An Epilogue to the Seoul Summit

Several days since the Seoul G20 summit, the majority of comments are quite reasonably displaying a total lack of optimism. The forum passed the Seoul declaration, churned out several other documents, and generated an initiative to establish a global financial security network mostly based on the IMF mechanisms. The summit …

The Cost Russia Will Pay for NATO Rapprochement

14:00 16.11.2010 Victor Kovalev

The Cost Russia Will Pay for NATO Rapprochement

The NATO summit which will convene in Lisbon on November 19-20 will adopt the alliance's new strategic concept switching NATO from regional defense to global-scale missions in the interests of the core of the modern capitalist world-system. In practice, the reform will institutionalize the West's victory in the Cold World …

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