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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 …

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 …

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