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The echo of the past war

14:00 10.11.2010 Natalia Meden

The echo of the past war

Great Britain has unveiled plans to cut its military budget by 8% in the next four years, which is the biggest cut since the end of the World War II. On hearing it Washington voiced concern over possible weakening of its ally’s defense potential. In Germany the reaction on the …

Israel’s cyber wars

14:00 09.11.2010 Nikolai Dimlevich

Israel’s cyber wars

In the situation of military and political standoff against the Arabic World the authorities of Israel are paying particular attention to the information war. The national intelligence service and the computer systems and communication department of the General Staff of the Israeli armed forces are in charge of planning and …

Obama's India Tour

14:00 09.11.2010 Andrei Volodin

Obama's India Tour

Political commentator George Friedman wrote in the aftermath of the November US midterms which left the Democrats with a headache: "Obama comes out of this election severely weakened domestically. If he continues his trajectory, the rest of the world will perceive him as a crippled president, something he needn't be …

The Lame Ducks Season

14:00 08.11.2010 Irina Lebedeva

The Lame Ducks Season

Washington-Boston November 15 will open the lame ducks season in the US: in the six weeks left till the new Congress is to take over, voting by the politicians temporarily exempt from accountability to their constituencies may produce otherwise unlikely results. The November 3 midterm elections predictably marked a comeback …

Russia and Qatar: Prospects for Coordination in the Gas Sphere

14:00 08.11.2010 Igor Tomberg

Russia and Qatar: Prospects for Coordination in the Gas Sphere

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the emir of the state of Qatar, met with Russian president D. Medvedev, prime minister V. Putin, and Gazprom's top brass in Moscow on November 2-3. In Moscow's widely publicized reading, the energy security should include the security of suppliers, and from this standpoint …

The WikiLeaks Enigma

14:00 03.11.2010 Elena Pustovoytova

The WikiLeaks Enigma

What the phenomenon of WikiLeaks, a powerful outlet of classified information, reflects is not only the immense potential of the Internet but also the fact that the implementation of a sophisticated program of brainwashing must be underway. The very first outburst of former secrets – the Afghan dossier containing reports …

The Dawn of the Rousseff Epoch

14:00 02.11.2010 Nil Nikandrov

The Dawn of the Rousseff Epoch

The majority of polls picked Dilma Rousseff as the frontrunner on the eve of the presidential runoff in Brazil. Brazil's outgoing president Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, a hyper-popular leader whose rating at the final stage of the term in office topped 80%, strengthened Rousseff's bid for presidency by reiterating …

The Two Myths Behind Globalism

14:00 01.11.2010 Konstantin Gordeev

The Two Myths Behind Globalism

As a new world order ideology, globalism has to rely on myths for its own advancement. The key myths behind globalism are that the world is facing an ever-growing terrorist threat (the notion routinely serves to justify downright genocide disguised as war on terror) and that carriers of various cultural …

Russia-ASEAN Summit: Attempting to Crush Stereotypes

14:00 31.10.2010 Igor Tomberg

Russia-ASEAN Summit: Attempting to Crush Stereotypes

On October 30, Russian president D. Medvedev attended the second Russia-ASEAN summit in Hanoi (the first Russia-ASEAN summit convened in Kuala Lumpur in 2005). The forum was meant to give a boost to the cooperation between Russia and East Asian countries which, as a Kremlin official related to the media …

CIA in Paraguay, or How to Get Rid of a President

15:00 28.10.2010 Nil Nikandrov

CIA in Paraguay, or How to Get Rid of a President

Paraguay's current president Fernando Lugo used to be known as "the bishop of the poor". He made a fairly quick career in the Roman Catholic church's hierarchy, became a bishop, and later was overwhelmingly voted in as the country's president. Inaugurated on August 15, 2008, he planned to bring profound …

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