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President Medvedev`s Visit to Kyiv: the First Set of Results

16:40 20.05.2010 Andrew Novatsky

President Medvedev`s Visit to Kyiv: the First Set of Results

Economy No doubt, it is the economic cooperation that will reenergize broader relations between Russia and Ukraine. One of the key economic agreements between the two countries signed during the Russian-Ukrainian summit is the inter-bank cooperation deal between Ukreximbank and Russia`s Bank VTB. Previously Russian Prime Minister V. Putin promised …

What will happen when the war of the giants ends...?

16:28 17.05.2010 Armen Oganesyan

What will happen when the war of the giants ends...?

In 1972, Molotov could not stop wondering: "Churchill is one of the victorious leaders, and I still can’t explain to myself how it could happen that he failed in the 1945 elections." In fact it is indeed extraordinary and inexplicable. Some romantically-minded historians even believed that with the departure of …

The Temptation of Winston Churchill

15:00 17.05.2010 Armen Oganesyan

The Temptation of Winston Churchill

HUMAN MEMORY recoils from the vast or even boundless expanse of the last war; it breaks it into events, periods and stages to better cope with its tragic grandeur. Thousands of those drawn in its whirlpool were aware of this yet not all of them proved equal to the task …

When it became hot under the Ardennes

23:35 13.05.2010 Armen Oganesyan

When it became hot under the Ardennes

In February 1945 at an airport in the Crimea, Churchill arrived at the Yalta conference and started to behave extravagantly. Passing by the guard of honor, instead of observing the usual protocol he started to closely scrutinize the faces of the officers and soldiers standing frozen "at attention," as if …

Brazilian President Lula: Heading for Moscow

16:41 12.05.2010 Nil Nikandrov

Brazilian President Lula: Heading for Moscow

Brazil is central to the Kremlin`s politics of increasing assertiveness in Latin America. From this standpoint Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who plans to visit Moscow on May 13-14 — a pragmatic and predictable leader remaining a patriot of his own country despite the onslaught of globalization — …

Russia and Turkey: Searching for a Model for Their Broadening Partnership

16:42 11.05.2010 David Hovhannissyan

Russia and Turkey: Searching for a Model for Their Broadening Partnership

Russian President D. Medvedev will visit Turkey om May 11, 2010. The trade turnover between Russia and Turkey has topped $30 bn, the ambitious target to be attained within the coming five years being $100 bn. Russia`s investments in Turkey contently total over $4 bn, and Turkey`s in Russia - …

Twists of War

15:00 11.05.2010 Armen Oganesyan

Twists of War

In contrast to the projections of a crushing defeat of the Red Army, that were churned out on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in June, 1941 but eventually proved inaccurate, Churchill`s belief that Russia was ready to make an all-out effort to fight the war fully withstood the test …

The Great Patriotic War: the forecast was wrong

16:31 29.04.2010 Armen Oganesyan

The Great Patriotic War: the forecast was wrong

The outbreak of Germany’s war against the USSR gave rise to much diversity in the projections. Three years later, Deputy Secretary of State Welles recalled: "Even the highest military authorities in this country and in Britain did not believe in the summer of 1941 that Russia would be able to …

Who is mad: us or Vesuvius?

16:29 22.04.2010 Armen Oganesyan

Who is mad: us or Vesuvius?

I do not know about you, but I am impressed with the European official. I admire and am morally crushed by his principles. Are you saying: "play it safe"? Of course. But after all, admit it, you were not personally touched by the princes of aviation’s "heroic" flights through volcanic …

The New START Treaty: What Next?

15:00 08.04.2010

The New START Treaty: What Next?

RONALD REAGAN'S SIGNATURE PHRASE "Trust but Verify" surfaced every time the arms reduction talks were discussed in the United States. The "insidious" Russians, meanwhile, opted for "Verify Before Trusting" when dealing with the Americans, the formula suggested by the sad experience of America's unilateral withdrawal from the ABM Treaty and …

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