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Great Power Influence Could Be Key to Stability

0:35 10.04.2012 Armen Oganesyan

Great Power Influence Could Be Key to Stability

American author Anne O'Hare McCormick (1880-1954), whose life experience was interwoven with both world wars, packaged into a single phrase the lessons to be derived from the tumultuous epochs when she famously wrote: “Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent …

Who Will Protect the Christians of the East?

15:00 29.03.2012 Armen Oganesyan

Who Will Protect the Christians of the East?

OVER THE PAST SEVEN YEARS, the number of physical reprisals and terrorist acts against Christians in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East has increased by 309%. The Arab Spring has added momentum to this process, causing it to snowball. By the end of last year, 200,000 Copts had left their …

Fridtjof Nansen and The Fram

15:00 23.03.2012

Fridtjof Nansen and The Fram

In autumn 1884 Fridtjof Nansen saw an article by meteorology professor Henrik Mohn about artifacts from a wrecked American expedition ship the Jeannette which must have been carried by a current right across the Arctic Ocean. Nansen connected this theory to other finds such as the Siberian driftwood and earth …

The Gulliver's Travels Series

15:00 12.03.2012

The Gulliver's Travels Series

7 series “Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.” Virginia Woolf. The purpose of this series of documentaries is to travel to the smallest countries of Europe, such as San Marino, Luxembourg, Monaco, …

International Affairs as the Mirror of the Russian Revolution

15:00 01.03.2012 Armen Oganesyan

International Affairs as the Mirror of the Russian Revolution

Late in December 1921, the people's commissariats and other departments of Moscow and Petrograd were informed: "Subscription to the periodicals of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (NKID) is going on. The NKID Bulletin has been replaced with the Mezhdunarodnaia zhizn journal, a much wider publication in which N. Iordansky, …

Who will defend the defenders?

1:43 23.02.2012 Armen Oganesyan

Who will defend the defenders?

A recent TV film about Zhukov, for all its conventionality and weightiness, unexpectedly sharply raised the issue of the need to "defend" the defenders. One can read the biographies of great generals, Suvorov for example, and you will see hardly anyone of them avoid disgrace. It is not just about …

Arab League As An Anti-Arab Weapon

15:00 22.02.2012 Elena Pustovoytova

Arab League As An Anti-Arab Weapon

Elementary arithmetic routinely holds keys to much more complex political algebra. At the moment, for example, it appears that fairly simple regards explain the bizarre conduct of the Arab League which, contrary to reasonable expectations, alligned itself with the West in destabilizing Syria and keeping B. Assad under pressure. It …

Iran-Caspian Basin: The Way To Global Project: Embargo for the Iranian oil import

18:57 17.02.2012 Armen Oganesyan

Iran-Caspian Basin: The Way To Global Project: Embargo for the Iranian oil import

Oil embargo of the European Union on Iran: punishment with postponement - “War of nerves” in the Persian Gulf - Oil import embargo on Iran January, 26, 2012 There are a number of factors nowadays which demolish the War Conceptions, well-established from the Clausewitz times on. The conception and practice …

When debt is red with blood. 150 years since the birth of Savva Morozov

13:49 16.02.2012 Armen Oganesyan

When debt is red with blood. 150 years since the birth of Savva Morozov

150 years ago, on the 3rd of February 1862, in the old style calendar, or 15th of February in the new calendar *Savva Timofeyevich Morozov was born in the Bogorosky district of Moscow. I always wondered how small Gorky’s characters, such as Clim Samgin and Bulychov stand next to a …

German businessmen on prospects of economic relations with Russia

14:33 14.02.2012 Natalia Meden

German businessmen on prospects of economic relations with Russia

How do foreign investors take the prospects, which are opening up for them in Russia after the presidential elections? “The Nezavisimaya Gazeta” daily quotes the forecast by the chief economist of HSBC group who says that the investors are scared by the coming 2012 election and new political risks linked …

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