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"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 …

The Landscape After The Battle

13:35 08.11.2012 Armen Oganesyan

The Landscape After The Battle

It was said many times in the course of the election campaign in the U.S. that foreign policy, and in particular Russian-American relations, was not a priority. Is this true? In such a tense struggle even nuances and shades of political interpretation could be the deciding factor. As for today's …

"I was asked to become the second wife ..."

13:36 06.11.2012 Armen Oganesyan

"I was asked to become the second wife ..."

Ten years ago Ekaterina Sizova came to the Egyptian town of Dahab, to do her favorite thing professionally - windsurfing. Little by little a Russian "diaspora" of surfers gathered around. Also tourists. She had the idea to open a surfing school for teaching beginners and rent out equipment to those …

Democracy in America today (I)

15:00 05.11.2012 Dmitry Minin

Democracy in America today (I)

Who has more rights to human rights?Washington believes that one of the achievements of its propaganda and diplomatic machinery was that after a meeting in Helsinki in 1975, they managed to make the so-called “third basket “which in the main placed emphasis on human rights. Decade after decade, the United …

The Battle of Borodino 1812

15:00 01.11.2012 Mark Rapley

The Battle of Borodino 1812

Victory and Failure The bi-centenial of the Battle of Borodino, which along with the great Patriotic War of 1941 to 1945, is one of the two great features of modern Russia’s historical identity, has prompted an understandable frisson of patriotic pride in the Russian nation. It is well deserved. The …

Pussy Riot in Post-Culture Context

15:00 19.09.2012 Armen Oganesyan

Pussy Riot in Post-Culture Context

The ado about Pussy Riot seems to be subsiding now that the story has led to a court verdict. Speaking in Finland, Russian diplomacy chief S. Lavrov warned the media against hysteria over the case and urged respect for the legitimate judicial decision, while in Russia the Orthodox Church called …

Secrets Behind September 11

15:00 11.09.2012 Nikolai Malishevski

Secrets Behind September 11

Surveys conducted across the US show thatthe majority of Americans, including senior citizens old enough to remember the US entry into World War II, regard the September, 11, 2001 drama as exceeding in historical importance the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. Speaking of the latter, these days it is an open …

India and APEC: Center of Mutual Gravitation

15:00 05.09.2012 Andrei Volodin

India and APEC: Center of Mutual Gravitation

The 24th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) annual summit is to take place on September 2-8 in Vladivostok. Today APEC is the largest economic forum for 21 Asia-Pacific nations accounting for 57% of world GNP and 48% of world trade. As is known India has requested membership in the organization. Russia …

Mars can speak

1:00 22.08.2012 Elena Studneva

Mars can speak

New generation rover with affectionate name "Curiosity» (Curiosity) NASA researchers launched in November 2011 and safely reached the Red Planet Aug. 6, 2012. It separated from migratory module. For the first time the technology has been tested Sky Crane unit descended from a flying platform on the surface of Mars …

Revolution - is not theater

15:17 12.08.2012 Armen Oganesyan

Revolution - is not theater

"Revolution is a theater where people start to play new roles,” so wrote E. Radzinsky in his book "Stalin". I think people who survived the revolution, would never have said that. The word "survivor" I use in a literal and figurative sense – those who historically survived the revolution, went …

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