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WikiLeaks: Neither Tolerated Nor Silenced

14:00 12.12.2010 Armen Oganesyan

WikiLeaks: Neither Tolerated Nor Silenced

The sober remark that the atomic bomb cannot be “unborn” is attributed to M. Thatcher. At the moment, the same holds true of WikiLeaks, the internet outlet which came into being a relatively short time ago and promptly established itself as media warfare of unprecedented power. Apart from provoking fierce …

This day of unity...

16:06 04.11.2010 Armen Oganesyan

This day of unity...

Troublesome times - what strange words, if you think about it. Vaguely in the heart, in the mind, and in the consciousness, we pass on the blame, and blame faceless time. National Unity Day on November 4th falls at the same time as the holy day for the icon of …

Do not beg from those who are stronger than you

17:01 18.10.2010 Armen Oganesyan

Do not beg from those who are stronger than you

Like a huge abscess, Iran infects the political world around itself. The political phase of the preparation for a military operation began with Washington's attempts to pacify the Palestinians with Israel. If the Arab elite in Tehran show irritation and even hostility, the same cannot be said about the Arab …

17:05 30.09.2010 Armen Oganesyan

I'm not talking about Luzhkov, I'm on about the stars in the Kremlin and the Kremlin itself. 80 years ago, on October 1st, 1930, the Chudov monastery inside the Kremlin was blown up, the beauty and grandeur of which were not inferior to other monasteries, and which bore the name …

What is the elite missing?

16:58 23.09.2010 Armen Oganesyan

What is the elite missing?

Anatoly Chubais believes that the elite lack intelligence, but as a classic political joke of the 1990s said of Chubais: - "He is the smart one." Speaking at an economic forum in Perm, the head of RUSNANO lamented the fact that Russia has no overall innovation strategy, the modernization of …

Quo Vadis, Germany?

15:00 02.09.2010 Armen Oganesyan

Quo Vadis, Germany?

Wohin treibt die Bundesrepublik? (Munich, 1966, Piper Verlag, 288 pp.) by famous German philosopher Karl Jaspers (the English translation of which The Future of Germany appeared in 1967) still stirs up discussions and is behind numerous publications in Germany and elsewhere. Despite the lessons of its recent past which should …

The End Has not Come Yet

15:00 12.08.2010 Armen Oganesyan

The End Has not Come Yet

THE SMOKE OF BURNING PEAT BOGS and forests and the losses they caused detracted us for a while from the far from comforting picture of planetary dimensions. Here is the frightening statistics of the year 2010 when big and small catastrophes shook the world: erupting volcanoes grounded aircrafts all over …

Ukraine's Hot Summer a Prologue to Plenty of Heat in the Fall

0:20 06.08.2010 Armen Oganesyan

Ukraine's Hot Summer a Prologue to Plenty of Heat in the Fall

The political intrigue in Ukraine is spinning off. Signs are everywhere that serious developments loom on the horizon, a rumor of big asset grabs goes around, the natural gas pricing theme constantly pops up in the headlines, and, accordingly, Russia is at the epicenter as the media debates rage. Driving …

Why Russia Has No Allies in the World of Today

9:18 29.07.2010 Armen Oganesyan

Why Russia Has No Allies in the World of Today

The worst kind of crashing bores are those who believe in the universality of formal logic and align their whole lives with its dictate. Sooner or later life does find a cure for most, but some manage to cling to their ways all along. In many cases, such people dive …

The Iranian Stalemate

11:56 26.07.2010 Armen Oganesyan

The Iranian Stalemate

I happened to tour the Middle East back in the mid-1990ies, at a moment when the Intifada peaked. My colleague and I stood at the top of a hill overlooking a spectacular landscape, on a site decorated with a UN flag. Here, the abbreviation is decoded as 'United Nothing', said …

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