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Christopher Coke Against the US, or the Global Elite and Narcotics

16:32 28.05.2010 Andrew Konurov

Christopher Coke Against the US, or the Global Elite and Narcotics

The police operation in the Kingston slums which would be more adequately described as a battle that lefts dozens of people dead or injured highlighted the problem of drug trafficking. The Jamaican government`s decision to extradite to the US renown drug lord Christopher Coke provoked an unexpectedly active reaction of …

Kononov Against Latvia, or Top-Level History Falsification

16:34 27.05.2010 Alexander Mezyaev

Kononov Against Latvia, or Top-Level History Falsification

On May 17, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) revealed the long-awaited decision on the Kononov case. It concerns Russia directly not only because Russian citizenship was granted to former Soviet partisan Vasily Kononov in 2000 amid his ordeal in Latvian courts, but, even more so, because the whole …

The Conundrum of the South Korean Corvette (I)

16:36 25.05.2010 Alexander Vorontsov

The Conundrum of the South Korean Corvette (I)

Seoul has unveiled the results of the investigation into the sinking of the Cheonan corvette in the Yellow Sea on May 26. According to the report put together by a commission of South Korean military and unnamed experts from the US, Canada, Great Britain, and Sweden, “Cheonan was sunk as …

Weak Europe

16:35 25.05.2010 Andrew Konurov

Weak Europe

The world is facing a second wave of the global economic meltdown, with Europe being in the front line of it. And no matter how hard the European officials try to calm the world by saying that the European Central Bank is able to solve all financial problems of the …

The war is over ... prepare for war

23:33 24.05.2010 Armen Oganesyan

The war is over ... prepare for war

More than one generation of historians will ask themselves the question, "when did the Cold War begin?" The complexity of the matter is that it slid into place gradually and secretly. However, it seems clear that each of the former allies moved to their own Rubicon and this transition did …

Afghan Heroine Flow Channeled to Russia

16:38 24.05.2010 Alexander Barentsev

Afghan Heroine Flow Channeled to Russia

According to head of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Assistant Secretary of State D. Johnson, the US State Department`s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report should reject the idea of opium poppy crop eradication. The production of narcotics in Afghanistan has gone up 40-fold since the country`s …

South Kyrgyzstan: An Epicenter of Coming Conflicts?

16:37 24.05.2010 Alexander Shustov

South Kyrgyzstan: An Epicenter of Coming Conflicts?

Unrest has lingered in the southern part of Kyrgyzstan since the April 7 coup. Recently, local Kyrgyz and Uzbek populations clashed in the Jalal-Abad province, the displaced Kyrgyz President K. Bakiev being widely suspected of organizing the riots. Early on May 19, up to 3,000 people rallied at the city`s …

China`s Position on Iran`s “Nuclear Problem”

16:39 21.05.2010 Elena Pustovoytova

China`s Position on Iran`s “Nuclear Problem”

At the US instigation, the UN Security Council is preparing a fresh anti-Iranian resolution. Obviously, the ambitions of the Washington diplomacy coercing the UN Security Council to slap tough sanctions on Iran far exceed Tehran`s alleged nuclear ambitions. The new resolution draft promises much more serious strictures to Iran, but …

President Medvedev`s Visit to Kyiv: the First Set of Results

16:40 20.05.2010 Andrew Novatsky

President Medvedev`s Visit to Kyiv: the First Set of Results

Economy No doubt, it is the economic cooperation that will reenergize broader relations between Russia and Ukraine. One of the key economic agreements between the two countries signed during the Russian-Ukrainian summit is the inter-bank cooperation deal between Ukreximbank and Russia`s Bank VTB. Previously Russian Prime Minister V. Putin promised …

What will happen when the war of the giants ends...?

16:28 17.05.2010 Armen Oganesyan

What will happen when the war of the giants ends...?

In 1972, Molotov could not stop wondering: "Churchill is one of the victorious leaders, and I still can’t explain to myself how it could happen that he failed in the 1945 elections." In fact it is indeed extraordinary and inexplicable. Some romantically-minded historians even believed that with the departure of …

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