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Reforming the UN: the European Vector

15:00 24.05.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Reforming the UN: the European Vector

AMID THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE the UN invites new approaches to its role and potential. In fact, collapse of the bipolar system, the obvious inadequacy of the unipolar world and the financial and economic crisis heated up the hopes and expectations pinned on the UN reform. It has been …

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 …

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: …

Holy Week

8:27 21.04.2011 Armen Oganesyan

It may be the most convincing argument in favor of the godly origin of Christianity that no human would have thought of preaching about God being crucified. Saying that the notion would have looked illogical would be an understatement – human nature and mind with its “common sense” would have …

On Faith, a word

8:13 21.04.2011 Armen Oganesyan

On Faith, a word

Family doctor Richard Scott, 50, was accused of harassing one of his patients – a reportedly suicidal young man - for bringing up the theme of Christianity at workplace. The regulator, Great Britain's General Medical Council, issued an official warning to Scott who faces the risk of being dismissed from …

Gone with the Dream

15:00 14.04.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Gone with the Dream

A HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO, America entered its bloodiest war that was to last four years. The Civil War between the North and the South cost the lives of 620,000 people, which is almost equal to total American losses in all other wars. Two out of every three Americans …

Convertible Democracy

15:00 07.04.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Convertible Democracy

IT'S ALWAYS RISKY to tell a story from hearsay. One inevitably errs in the details. Still, let me give it a try. During a Soviet celebration of Alexander Suvorov's jubilee year, a speaker mounted the podium and made a denunciatory speech about the great general. In it, he depicted Suvorov …

Japan Will Overcome. Yet at What Cost...

14:00 17.03.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Japan Will Overcome. Yet at What Cost...

THERE IS SOMETHING DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND about the recent events in Japan at first sight. The only country to have suffered from a nuclear attack and experienced the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki decided to develop the nuclear power industry, risking repeating the nightmares of the past. Indeed, building a …

No More Cheap Oil

14:00 03.02.2011 Armen Oganesyan

No More Cheap Oil

ACCORDING TO Suleiman Jasir Al-Herbish, Director-General of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), there will be no more cheap oil. We met at the OFID headquarters in Vienna, a magnificent palace built in the days of the Austrian Empire and richly decorated with columns, stucco, massive oak doors and …

Russia-Ukraine: There Are no Easy Ways yet...

14:00 06.01.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Russia-Ukraine: There Are no Easy Ways yet...

OH WELL, this feels great. You come to the Crimea and hear at the passport checkpoint in the Simferopol airport: "With your passport you do not need an immigration card." A TV picture of Medvedev and Yanukovich criticizing the borderline idiocy comes to mind followed by a puzzled question: "Why …

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