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The Kremlin Signals the Need for a Sensible Approach to the European Missile Defense and Warns that Moscow's Patience Has Its Limits

15:00 23.11.2011 Victor Kazimirov

The Kremlin Signals the Need for a Sensible Approach to the European Missile Defense and Warns that Moscow's Patience Has Its Limits

On November 23, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev addressed the citizens of Russia – and also, from a broader perspective, a number of the world's countries – in connection with the alarming situation which has arisen as a result of the US and NATO efforts to build a broad missile defense …

Common European Missile Defense: Cooperation or Confrontation? (Part II)

15:00 23.11.2011 Vladimir Kozin

Common European Missile Defense: Cooperation or Confrontation? (Part II)

Part I Strategic and Tactical Nuclear Arms Modernization vis-a-vis the BMD Program The functional feature of the contemporary BMD infrastructure of the US and its key NATO allies is that their missile defense assets are never used per se or alone or separately from their strategic and tactical nuclear weapons. …

Common European Missile Defense: Cooperation or Confrontation? (Part I)

15:00 22.11.2011 Vladimir Kozin

Common European Missile Defense: Cooperation or Confrontation? (Part I)

The positions which Washington and the NATO headquarters in Brussels adopted at the consultations on a joint Russia-USA/NATO European ballistic missile defense (BMD) system have recently drawn a new round of criticisms from the Russian military-political leadership. Such stances on the current state of the consultations was expressed by Russia's …

Division of Kosovo: “pros” and “cons”

15:00 21.11.2011 Pyotr Iskenderov

Division of Kosovo: “pros” and “cons”

The statement about a possible division of Kosovo made by the chairman of the Kosovo Assembly Jakup Krasniqi ahead of the resumption of talks between Belgrade and Pristine may give a new direction to the burning discussion on Kosovo issue.If earlier Kosovo’s Albanian leaders vigorously opposed the very possibility of …

America's Pacific Vector: I'll Come to Hug You

15:00 17.11.2011 Armen Oganesyan

America's Pacific Vector: I'll Come to Hug You

"THE FUTURE OF POLITICS will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated in her article which appeared in the November 2011 issue ofForeign Policy under a powerful title "America's …

Nord Stream Launch and Europe's Energy Future

15:00 11.11.2011 Natalia Meden

Nord Stream Launch and Europe's Energy Future

On September 8, Russian president D. Medvedev, German chancellor A. Merkel, prime ministers of France and the Netherlands Francois Fillon and Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Erwin Sellering, EU Energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger, and CEOs of Nord Stream consortium partners inaugurated the Nord Stream pipeline and opened the …

Convincing victory of “populism” in Nicaragua

15:00 10.11.2011 Nil Nikandrov

Convincing victory of “populism” in Nicaragua

On November 6, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega was re-elected winning 64 % of votes. The key points of his election program are laconic and comprehensible for Nicaraguan people: socialism, Christianity, free market. Ortega’s opponents have failed to come up with a more convincing alternative. His closest rival - an 80 …

Sexual Activity as a Mega-Weapon for the Middle East

15:00 10.11.2011 Alexander Levchenko

Sexual Activity as a Mega-Weapon for the Middle East

It does not take a rocket scientist to realize that, while social media like Facebook and Twitter can be instrumental in bringing crowds of discontent to the streets, the protesters will in all cases be led by those who have built a real rather than virtual organization geared towards inducing …

What will decide the fate of Syria?

15:00 08.11.2011 Dmitri Sedov

What will decide the fate of Syria?

The deeper the crisis in Syria, the more evident it becomes that its former ally, Turkey, has played its part in the process. As the only moderate Islamic NATO member state, Turkey has turned into a springboard for the Syrian opposition. Istanbul announced the creation of a Syrian national council, …

What Would Qaddafi Tell the International Court?

15:00 03.11.2011 Armen Oganesyan

What Would Qaddafi Tell the International Court?

"MUAMMAR QADDAFI'S GRUESOME DEATH sent a message to dictators around the world." These words by U.S. President Obama sent waves of enthusiasm in the West European media (the German media, however, remained immune). The question is: What sort of a message? What produced a greater impression: the bodies of lynched …

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