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War is war. Obama, Magnitsky and "The Cold Peace"

15:09 04.02.2013 Armen Oganesyan

War is war. Obama, Magnitsky and "The Cold Peace"

Winston Churchill held to the view that America makes the right decisions, but only after having tried everything else first. Senator J. William Fulbright believed that Americans have repeated many mistakes made in the past, just because they neglect the fact that the same thing could happen to them. Also …

Intervention Fund

17:25 02.02.2013 Pyotr Iskenderov

Intervention Fund

The fund created by the European Union to "support democracy" in third world countries and neighboring countries continues to overgrow with new eloquent details. According to the European Commission, the European Foundation for Democracy (European Endowment for Democracy - EED) is designed to provide cash grants to journalists, bloggers, nonprofit …

Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matviyenko: "The 21st Session of the APPF is a big step forward"

1:22 01.02.2013 Andrey Davydenko

Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matviyenko: "The 21st Session of the APPF is a big step forward"

The 21th session of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum in Vladivostok became the most representative in the history of the Forum and closed with the adoption of a "package" of 14 resolutions on key political, trade, economic and humanitarian cooperation between the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. During the plenary sessions, …

The 100th anniversary of the legendary Alexander Marinesko

13:17 23.01.2013 Elena Studneva

The 100th anniversary of the legendary Alexander Marinesko

One of the highlights of 2013’s memorable dates was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Marinesko, the legendary commander of submarine "S-13.". How many submariners’ names are famous in naval world history? They can be counted on the fingers of one hand. And so for just the mention …

A date with another Nicaragua

0:08 21.01.2013 Alexander Moiseyev

A date with another Nicaragua

Moscow - Managua - Moscow I am walking through Managua ... and I still cannot believe that the last time we met was 20 years ago. And all around me it is not the same Nicaragua, with which I once had many journalistic dates; it is a completely different country. …

Tomatoes from Morocco

16:49 17.01.2013 Sergey Filatov

Tomatoes from Morocco

Moscow-Morocco-Moscow Photo by author Such was the destiny of this correspondent’s duties that I was to travel to Morocco on a regular basis over the years, and oranges along with Tangier no longer induce in me such a severe emotional reaction. Over the years the borders have opened, and now …

Ivanov- Šainović: The Russian James Bond

16:52 16.01.2013 Vladislav Gulevich

Ivanov- Šainović: The Russian James Bond

In Athens on January 7th, 2013, the 70th anniversary of the execution by the Nazis of British intelligence agent number 033V, Jerzy Ivanov-Šainović, was solemnly marked. This man's name is known to almost every Pole and Greek, but it is unknown in Russia. He was an extraordinary man: multilingual (he …

Brunei Darussalam Ratifies The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

21:03 14.01.2013

Brunei Darussalam Ratifies The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

Vienna, 14 January 2013 Brunei Darussalam has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), becoming the 158th country to do so. Tibor Tóth, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), welcomed the move: “This is not only a step towards a safer and more peaceful …

Russian helicopters in Mexico

15:00 29.11.2012 Yuri Nemtsev

Russian helicopters in Mexico

The day before Mexico`s National Navy Day, Mexico received another batch of Russian military helicopters. We are talking about a new delivery of the Mi-17V-5 model, which is made by the Kazan Helicopter Plant. The helicopters were delivered in accordance with a contract signed in December 2011, between the Russian …

"Mittelstadt" - The German Economic Miracle

17:08 26.11.2012 Armen Oganesyan

"Mittelstadt" - The German Economic Miracle

Mittelstadt is a small town, barely visible on the map of Germany. However, the word is well known to economists around the world, and in Bonn there is a research institute which deals exclusively with Mittelstadt issues. In fact Mittelstadt is a collective image of unknown terrain. This is the …

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