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NATO: "Sing us a hallelujah!"

12:28 18.02.2010 Armen Oganesyan

NATO: "Sing us a hallelujah!"

"It seems that Moscow, will never forgive NATO for being the alliance that survived the Cold War," so wrote one influential European newspaper a few days ago. This is not so at all, but try to agree with me that it is difficult to forgive those who, having survived the …

How Long Is the War in Afghanistan Going to Last? Part II

14:46 12.02.2010 Armen Oganesyan

How Long Is the War in Afghanistan Going to Last? Part II

Part 2 Brainstorming is a remarkable American invention, but the practice may be untimely amidst serious fighting. At the moment the war against the Talibs in Afghanistan is raging while, according to European expert estimates, the extremist groups are at the peak of power and therefore unreceptive to negotiation offers. …

How Long Is the War in Afghanistan Going to Last? Part I

14:46 12.02.2010 Armen Oganesyan

How Long Is the War in Afghanistan Going to Last? Part I

Part 1 Receiving the Nobel Prize in Oslo, US president B. Obama painted a grim picture of the problems the world would have to face if — not getting the due assistance from other countries — the US lost the war in Afghanistan. At the moment, it would be unfair …

The "Yalta Spring" turned out cold

16:44 11.02.2010 Armen Oganesyan

The "Yalta Spring" turned out cold

Looking through the documents of the Yalta Conference of the "Big Three" in 1945, one could not help but wonder, what great material it would be for a play in the theater! Against the backdrop of still grand and terrible pictures of the war, with the participation of such vibrant …

U.S. and China: brothers forever?

16:54 04.02.2010 Armen Oganesyan

U.S. and China: brothers forever?

The "Passionarity theory of ethnicity" has some flaws when we begin to apply it to modern life. The presence of the "heroic layer," ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of historical purpose, is not a necessary attribute today of a passionist civilization, nation, or ethnic group. Neither the United …

A world government in 100 years time?

16:46 28.01.2010 Armen Oganesyan

A world government in 100 years time?

Since the time the famous dispute between the "physicists" and "lyricists" first took place, the "economists" won, and the lyricists finally had to take a back seat. But for what good reason! Firstly, they should be inspired that thanks to the vanguard of economists nearly all of the physicists moved …

Clio at gunpoint

16:50 21.01.2010 Armen Oganesyan

Clio at gunpoint

"There are as many historians as there are histories," once remarked the English Sovietologist Edward Carr. Perhaps that's why so many today speak and write about the falsification of history. We must at least agree on the terms. Already at the first session of the Presidential "Commission to counter attempts …

Diplomacy Today: Subject and Method

18:57 06.06.2009 Sergey Lavrov

Diplomacy Today: Subject and Method

TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK about the fundamental issues of contemporary diplomacy - its subject and method. Ours is the time of sweeping transformations which call for profound comprehension, otherwise the diplomacy of any state might lose its contacts with reality and, therefore, its efficiency of a foreign policy …

Russia and Germany: Common History Never Ends

18:57 06.05.2009 Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Russia and Germany: Common History Never Ends

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Vice-Chancellor, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany GERMAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS have for centuries been those of close association, even a symbiotic relationship extending far beyond family relations between the ruling houses. There were, however, periods of coolness and complete ruptures. I remember well the brilliant exhibition in …

World Food Security

17:57 03.04.2009 Jacques Diouf

World Food Security

IT IS A GREAT HONOR FOR ME to be with you today in this global city of Moscow to address such a prestigious gathering on such an important topic -"Global Food Security."I first wish to thank the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Deputy Minister Mr. Sergey …

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