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Silence on Genocide

15:00 31.05.2012 Armen Oganesyan

Silence on Genocide

The interactions between religion and society constantly pop up in media headlines worldwide, with Russia fully exemplifying the trend. Not long ago Foreign Affairs, a magazine with a solid reputation for political punditry, pinpointed a paradigmatic shift in the US when it wrote that “...whereas the past saw partisans of …

"Cadres decide everything"

15:16 22.05.2012 Armen Oganesyan

"Cadres decide everything"

Looking at the recent past, one could not help but wonder what was at the root of the breakdown in the early 1990s when the principle of personnel policy still remained quite rational in many areas. When, undoubtedly in the engagement of new nominees from outside of the political sphere, …

Europe Meets Russia. Venue Is Yet To Be Named

15:00 03.05.2012 Armen Oganesyan

Europe Meets Russia. Venue Is Yet To Be Named

THE EUROPE MEETS RUSSIA conference in Berlin brought together young leaders from the European Union and the CIS. Its very tight schedule was smartly developed by the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy. However, culture was not discussed much and there were few Russia's speakers. Taking part in this year's Europe Meets …

Riot of the Dancing Little Men

13:46 12.04.2012 Armen Oganesyan

Riot of the Dancing Little Men

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky said that there is a certain type of people who require it to be explained to them every time, why a bad smell comes from a dunghill. "It stinks!" - They are told, but they either do not really understand, or pretend not to. To argue with …

Great Power Influence Could Be Key to Stability

0:35 10.04.2012 Armen Oganesyan

Great Power Influence Could Be Key to Stability

American author Anne O'Hare McCormick (1880-1954), whose life experience was interwoven with both world wars, packaged into a single phrase the lessons to be derived from the tumultuous epochs when she famously wrote: “Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent …

Who Will Protect the Christians of the East?

15:00 29.03.2012 Armen Oganesyan

Who Will Protect the Christians of the East?

OVER THE PAST SEVEN YEARS, the number of physical reprisals and terrorist acts against Christians in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East has increased by 309%. The Arab Spring has added momentum to this process, causing it to snowball. By the end of last year, 200,000 Copts had left their …

International Affairs as the Mirror of the Russian Revolution

15:00 01.03.2012 Armen Oganesyan

International Affairs as the Mirror of the Russian Revolution

Late in December 1921, the people's commissariats and other departments of Moscow and Petrograd were informed: "Subscription to the periodicals of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (NKID) is going on. The NKID Bulletin has been replaced with the Mezhdunarodnaia zhizn journal, a much wider publication in which N. Iordansky, …

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 …

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 …

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