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Will NATO Forces Under the UN Flag Take the Jamahiriya’s Place in Libya?

15:00 20.05.2011 Sergei Shashkov

Will NATO Forces Under the UN Flag Take the Jamahiriya’s Place in Libya?

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." --Abraham Lincoln A conference on Libya convened in London on March 29 and was attended by representatives from 40 countries which had voted for UN Security …

Managing the breakdown of order

15:00 18.05.2011 Konstantin Gordeev

Managing the breakdown of order

Have you ever heard of tempered glass? When you break it, it crumbles into small chunks. Or imagine a ball lying in a pit: it looks as if perfectly fixed inside the pit but once you touch it slightly, it runs down- nobody can predict where exactly. There is also …

Geopolitics Behind the Great Triumph

15:00 09.05.2011 Leonid Ivashov

Geopolitics Behind the Great Triumph

Even as we talk of the great triumph over Nazis in World War II, discuss the global impact of the Soviet people's victory, and say that it irreversibly transformed the world, we often fail to appreciate the extent of heroism of Soviet soldiers and the proportions of the changes it …

Lend-Lease Contribution to the Victory Over Nazis Overstated

15:00 07.05.2011 Sergei Smolyannikov

Lend-Lease Contribution to the Victory Over Nazis Overstated

On the eve of the anniversary of the triumph over Nazis, we are reliving step by step the Soviet people's march to the great victory. It took years of fighting – in deep defense and in fearless attacks - to go all the way from the first battles at the …

National Interests of Russia in Information Confrontation

15:00 06.05.2011 Nikolai Dimlevich

National Interests of Russia in Information Confrontation

Analysis of international political and military situation and the information shows that in the modern world, several developed countries (USA, UK, France, Germany, India and China) are actively increasing their efforts to achieve global dominance in the information field, which leads to strengthening the entire spectrum of strategic threats for …

They Are 20th in Line: Children Talk About the War

15:00 05.05.2011 Armen Oganesyan

They Are 20th in Line: Children Talk About the War

"A TANK ROLLED DOWN our street. It stopped not far away... I saw three Germans climb out of the manhole; they were dressed all in black with skulls and cross-bones on their sleeves. Two of them began fixing the tank, while the third went into a nearby house. I followed …

The intriguing death of Osama bin Laden

15:00 04.05.2011 M.K. Bhadrakumar

The intriguing death of Osama bin Laden

Think of the irony of it. Osama bin Laden was finally tracked down not in the lawless wilds of Afghanistan but in the teeming Pakistani city of Abbottabad, which is hardly 50 kilometers away as the crow flies from the headquarters of the military establishment in Rawalpindi. Abbottabad has been …

Already ratified, START is still a matter of dispute to Russia and U.S.

15:00 28.04.2011 Yuri Rubtsov

Already ratified, START is still a matter of dispute to Russia and U.S.

Washington is interested in starting broad discussions with Moscow on further reduction of strategic nuclear arsenals. The announcement was made by Rose Gottemoeller, assistant secretary of state for arms control, as she spoke at the Naval Academy in Annapolis last week. In her speech she made it clear that the …

Easter

14:20 28.04.2011 Armen Oganesyan

“It is the day of resurrection! Let us be illumined for the feast!” - even the air in the church seems to vibrate with joy when the Easter chant sounds during the celebration of the feast of feasts. A week before the resurrection, Jesus told Mary, the sister of Lazarus: …

Libya and Korea: fatal cohesion of events (II)

15:00 27.04.2011 Oleg Revenko , Alexander Vorontsov

Libya and Korea: fatal cohesion of events (II)

Creeping of instability and political revolts in the Arab East has given birth to expectations that the democratic wave will soon reach North Korea as well. Indeed: if there is no chance to change the political regime in North Korea by using military force so why not to choose less …

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