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How American Presidential Contenders Talk About Russia

18:48 21.02.2019 David S. Foglesong

How American Presidential Contenders Talk About Russia

Can American politicians talk sensibly about Russia? Major statements in the last year by leading contenders for the next presidential election in 2020 are not encouraging: they have presented severely distorted views of Russia and grossly exaggerated threats from the Kremlin. However, some influential politicians in the United States do …

Montenegrin political earthquake

10:02 20.02.2019 Slavisha Batko Milacic

Montenegrin political earthquake

In mid-January, across Montenegro, one video clip caused a real political storm. For the first time it was seen how a businessman close to the government gives 97,000 euros to Slavoljub Stijepovic, former mayor of capital Podgorica and senior official of the rulling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), to fund …

China and US keep a close eye on Greenland

10:48 18.02.2019 Vladislav Gulevich

China and US keep a close eye on Greenland

Greenland is mulling independence. While enjoying wide autonomy within the Kingdom of Denmark with its own parliament since 2009,. Greenland still faces two serious economic problems standing on its way to full-fledged sovereignty, namely the need to make itself less dependent on financial assistance from Copenhagen ($620 million), and reduce …

Unrest in Bosnia

15:08 07.02.2019 Slavisha Batko Milacic

Unrest in Bosnia

For Bosnia and Herzegovina many analysts will say that is artificial creation. That is why there is a saying for Bosnia: ”Where logic ends, Bosnia begins”. Anyway, the latest Bosniak initiative, has surprised many, because it strikes at the very basis of existence of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Recently, the Party …

Italy making its way back to Africa

12:34 06.02.2019 Vladislav Gulevich

Italy making its way back to Africa

The countries of the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia) have recently been the focus of attention of Italian diplomacy, with the need to find political partners in Africa to resolve the migrant crisis, the signing of a long-awaited peace deal between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 2018, China’s …

Ayatollah Khomeini - strategist, practitioner and mastermind of the Islamic revolution in Iran (To the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran)

12:52 31.01.2019 Vladimir Sazhin

Ayatollah Khomeini - strategist, practitioner and mastermind of the Islamic revolution in Iran (To the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran)

The year 2019 marks 40 years to the Islamic Republic of Iran. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic revolution won in Iran. The last shahinshah of the Persian Empire, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was overthrown. The 2500-year history of the Persian Monarchy came to a close.Undoubtedly, the Islamic revolution in Iran …

US ‘looking for excuses’ to shake off INF treaty restrictions - Sergei Ryabkov

12:50 22.01.2019

US ‘looking for excuses’ to shake off INF treaty restrictions - Sergei Ryabkov

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said as much in an interview with International Affairs Editor-in-Chief, Armen Oganesyan.“We are about the see the end of the 60-day period the United States has given Russia to scrap the missile, which allegedly breaches the terms of the INF accord. The nature and …

Colour revolution in Republika Srpska

11:25 16.01.2019 Slavisha Batko Milacic

Colour revolution in Republika Srpska

On 18 March 2018, 21 year old David Dragicevic went out with his friends around 7 p.m., but never returned home and was declared missing the same day. On the 24 March, his dead body was found in the small Crkvena creek, in downtown Banja Luka, capital of Republika Srpska. …

What UK defense minister was doing in Odessa, or a taste for farce

10:51 10.01.2019 Denis Baturin

What UK defense minister was doing in Odessa, or a taste for farce

History repeats itself. This popular maxim also rings very true today. Many episodes of the Crimean War are still fresh on the memory of Russians, French and the British. Disregarding the sanctions and "annexation," Britons and French nationals keep coming to Sevastopol to take part in a historical festival, donning …

Balkan powder keg

15:21 02.01.2019 Slavisha Batko Milacic

Balkan powder keg

After the NATO aggression against Serbia and Montenegro in 1999, the United States of America, having established full control over the Balkans, shifted its focus after 2000 to the Middle East. The United States continued to be heavily present in the Balkans, but indirectly through its allies, who continued their …

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