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Who is Actually Subjecting Others to Finlandization?

15:46 03.06.2010 Armen Oganesyan

Who is Actually Subjecting Others to Finlandization?

The future is bleak if the present is burdened with a legacy that still awaits rational analysis... Skimming through the Western media, it is hard to take seriously occasional complaints that today's Russia is subjecting its neighbors to what used to be known as Finlandization in the Cold War era. …

Balkans in the Nets of the New World Order

16:31 31.05.2010 Pyotr Iskenderov

Balkans in the Nets of the New World Order

Facing an unprecedented economic crisis, the EU is hurriedly offloading the Balkan part of its agenda. The year`s major Balkan event - the EU-Balkan summit – will take place in Sarajevo on June 2. The previous summit, which convened in Brdo (Slovenia) on May 20, was plagued with scandals and, …

UNIDO Director-General Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella

15:00 29.05.2010 Kandeh Yumkella

UNIDO Director-General Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella

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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 …

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