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Imperialism for a cash-strapped era: Storms below the surface (Part I)

15:00 18.01.2012 M.K. Bhadrakumar

Imperialism for a cash-strapped era: Storms below the surface (Part I)

The United States’ defence strategy unveiled by President Barack Obama in Washington on January 5 has been occasioned by the need to slash the spending of the Pentagon by nearly half a trillion dollars over the next decade. There is undeniably some merit in the viewpoint that this is a …

Euroschizophrenia 2011

15:00 13.01.2012 Pyotr Iskenderov

Euroschizophrenia 2011

The year 2011 will be remembered as a period of unprecedented uncertainty in the history of modern Europe. On the one hand, contrary to widespread apocalyptic expectations, the EU did not crumble and the amplitude of the oscillations in the value of the relatively young European currency did stay within …

Syria and the New Model of International Transformations

15:00 28.12.2011 Alexander Mezyaev

Syria and the New Model of International Transformations

Early this month, as Russia was in the process of assuming chairmanship in the UN Security Council, Moscow's envoy said Syria was not on the UN SC December agenda. Still, the theme of Syria has become the subject of permanent heated debates during unofficial consultations and surfaced in the discussions …

Clashes in Kazakhstan: inspired by the Arab Spring?

15:00 19.12.2011 Alexander Shustov

Clashes in Kazakhstan: inspired by the Arab Spring?

In the past few months Kazakhstan, once the quietest country in Central Asia, has turned into a hotbed of extremism. On December 16th when Kazakhstan marked its Independence Day, violent clashes took place in the western town of Zhanaozen in Mangistau district. State-run media and opposition supporters offer an absolutely …

Great Britain, Greece and Austria set the trends in the EU (II)

15:00 17.12.2011 Pyotr Iskenderov

Great Britain, Greece and Austria set the trends in the EU (II)

Part 1 Back in summer of 2008, amid difficulties with the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty on reforming the EU many officials in the EU government began to speak at their informal meetings about the future of Europe “at different speeds” and “concentric circles” of Europe. These concepts implied that …

Great Britain, Greece, and Austria Set the Trends in the EU (I)

15:00 16.12.2011 Pyotr Iskenderov

Great Britain, Greece, and Austria Set the Trends in the EU (I)

Part IIThe resolutions of the December 8-9 EU summit which had evoked heightened expectations eventually left a mixed impression. The official agenda of the forum appeared all-embracing, with the leaders of the 27 countries of the united Europe touching upon every issue from the Balkan politics and Iran's nuclear problem …

President of Côte d'Ivoire to Stand Trial in the International Criminal Court

15:00 06.12.2011 Alexander Mezyaev

President of Côte d'Ivoire to Stand Trial in the International Criminal Court

President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo in the International Criminal Court.December 5, 2011 (picture taken during a live broadcast from the International Criminal Court) President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo who had been displaced as a result of the French intervention appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Hague …

The Watershed

15:00 05.12.2011 Andrei Volodin

The Watershed

A Nato air strike on a Pakistani border coordination center on 26th November, which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, has caused extensive coverage in the media and critical feedback from all over the globe. IN a phone talk with his Pakistani counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed that violating other …

The End of Reset

15:00 28.11.2011 Leonid Ivashov

The End of Reset

US Department of State spokeswoman Victoria Nuland announced on November 22 that the US stops supplying to Russia the data on conventional arms in Europe. Furthermore, Russian inspectors would not be admitted to US military bases in Europe. What could be the reasoning behind the radical US step which, it …

Statement in connection with the situation concerning the NATO countries’ missile defence system in Europe

15:00 24.11.2011

Statement in connection with the situation concerning the NATO countries’ missile defence system in Europe

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Citizens of Russia,I address you today in connection with the situation concerning the NATO countries’ missile defence system in Europe.Russia’s relations with the USA and NATO in the missile defence area have a long and complicated history. I remember that when US President Barack Obama …

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