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Syria: a prelude to war?

12:04 09.02.2012 Armen Oganesyan

Syria: a prelude to war?

Not long ago, before the tragic events in Syria began, Anglican pastor Padgett went to Homs, Aleppo and Damascus, to study the situation of the Christian communities there. He mingled with people of different social status and religion. He wrote in the wake of his fresh impressions "Everywhere in these …

The Abduction of Europe, or How Jupiter Became a Bull

15:00 02.02.2012 Armen Oganesyan

The Abduction of Europe, or How Jupiter Became a Bull

WE ARE WATCHING the "abduction of Europe": the European dream of many generations of great European politicians is melting away. It was immediately after the war that Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Konrad Adenauer, Paul-Henri Spaak and many others laid the ideological foundation of united Europe. …

On current situation in Syria

15:00 01.02.2012 Boris Dolgov

On current situation in Syria

The current situation in Syria remains one of the most important components of the Middle Eastern and international policies. Using Syria’s domestic crisis and pursuing their own goals NATO’s leading states, Israel, Turkey and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are trying to undermine the Syrian regime. Since the beginning …

The Conundrum of Iran

14:40 01.02.2012 Leonid Savin

The Conundrum of Iran

The EU oil embargo recently slapped on Iran and the threats voiced by the US and other Western countries to come up with further sanctions against the country led watchers to conclude that an armed conflict between Iran and the West finally became imminent. The first potential scenario in the …

Imperialism for a cash-strapped era: Storms below the surface (Part II)

15:00 24.01.2012 M.K. Bhadrakumar

Imperialism for a cash-strapped era: Storms below the surface (Part II)

Part I The “color revolution” will continue to be the preferred route for the United States in effecting regime change in Central Asia. But the limits to the United States’s capacity to intervene also cannot but be noted. As a perceptive observer recently noted, the US is a “renter rather …

Imperialism for a cash-strapped era: Storms below the surface (Part I)

15:00 18.01.2012 M.K. Bhadrakumar

Imperialism for a cash-strapped era: Storms below the surface (Part I)

The United States’ defence strategy unveiled by President Barack Obama in Washington on January 5 has been occasioned by the need to slash the spending of the Pentagon by nearly half a trillion dollars over the next decade. There is undeniably some merit in the viewpoint that this is a …

Euroschizophrenia 2011

15:00 13.01.2012 Pyotr Iskenderov

Euroschizophrenia 2011

The year 2011 will be remembered as a period of unprecedented uncertainty in the history of modern Europe. On the one hand, contrary to widespread apocalyptic expectations, the EU did not crumble and the amplitude of the oscillations in the value of the relatively young European currency did stay within …

The Miracle of the Nativity

14:23 13.01.2012 Armen Oganesyan

The Miracle of the Nativity

God was manifest in the flesh in order that we might know him and partake his life, in order that the very flesh could share his triumph, wrote Ephrem the Syrian in the IV century, adding a significant clarification that this triumph of God, if performed without appearing in the …

If War Comes Tomorrow...

15:20 08.01.2012 Armen Oganesyan

If War Comes Tomorrow...

The law, allowing the US President to significantly cut the Irranian oil export, caused plenty of comments and sharp response of Iran. Later on the situation with the anti-Iranian critisizm has blown away and softer notes from the both sides could be heard. This, certainly, does not change the matter …

Syria and the New Model of International Transformations

15:00 28.12.2011 Alexander Mezyaev

Syria and the New Model of International Transformations

Early this month, as Russia was in the process of assuming chairmanship in the UN Security Council, Moscow's envoy said Syria was not on the UN SC December agenda. Still, the theme of Syria has become the subject of permanent heated debates during unofficial consultations and surfaced in the discussions …

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