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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. …

The Miracle of the Nativity

14:23 13.01.2012 Armen Oganesyan

The Miracle of the Nativity

God was manifest in the flesh in order that we might know him and partake his life, in order that the very flesh could share his triumph, wrote Ephrem the Syrian in the IV century, adding a significant clarification that this triumph of God, if performed without appearing in the …

If War Comes Tomorrow...

15:20 08.01.2012 Armen Oganesyan

If War Comes Tomorrow...

The law, allowing the US President to significantly cut the Irranian oil export, caused plenty of comments and sharp response of Iran. Later on the situation with the anti-Iranian critisizm has blown away and softer notes from the both sides could be heard. This, certainly, does not change the matter …

Civil society is not born in the street

22:26 22.12.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Civil society is not born in the street

Civil society is maturing, not in the process of being born. Especially since it is not being born suddenly in Bolotnaya square or Revolutionary square... Recently, I was surprised to have read and heard of people, intelligent, and familiar with history, that the street can be the midwife of civil …

Why does Russia not like the rich?

19:03 19.12.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Why does Russia not like the rich?

This is not a parable, it is a true story. A rich man built a temple. He did not go to the temple to pray or to repent, or for communion. Maybe he had little belief, or maybe he was a complete unbeliever, but at least he respected the faith …

America's Pacific Vector: I'll Come to Hug You

15:00 17.11.2011 Armen Oganesyan

America's Pacific Vector: I'll Come to Hug You

"THE FUTURE OF POLITICS will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated in her article which appeared in the November 2011 issue ofForeign Policy under a powerful title "America's …

What Would Qaddafi Tell the International Court?

15:00 03.11.2011 Armen Oganesyan

What Would Qaddafi Tell the International Court?

"MUAMMAR QADDAFI'S GRUESOME DEATH sent a message to dictators around the world." These words by U.S. President Obama sent waves of enthusiasm in the West European media (the German media, however, remained immune). The question is: What sort of a message? What produced a greater impression: the bodies of lynched …

Notes of a Diplomacy Professional. S. Lavrov's Perspectives on the Past and the Future

14:57 31.10.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Notes of a Diplomacy Professional. S. Lavrov's Perspectives on the Past and the Future

Sergei Lavrov has been representing Russia as foreign minister in two dissimilar epochs, one marked by a fairly convincing growth of the world's economy, the other — by a deep global crisis which will likely continue into the foreseeable future. While those of the watchers who attempt to sound optimistic …

Facebook and the World Parliament

12:01 29.09.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Facebook and the World Parliament

Facebook has announced the creation of its own political action committees. Thus, the network will be able to participate in the financial support of the candidates in the upcoming elections in the U.S. in 2012. At first glance the versatility of the Web involves not simply impartiality, but is also …

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