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A Visa of Contention

15:00 27.10.2010 Pyotr Iskenderov

A Visa of Contention

In early November interior ministers of the EU`s 27 member states are going to discuss visa-free regime with the Balkan states. These are expected to be really hot debates with the EU chiefs probably revising the earlier approved principles and schedules. Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Serbia …

Will the Special Relationship Between the US and Great Britain in the NATO Framework Stay Afloat?

15:00 26.10.2010 Yuri Rubtsov

Will the Special Relationship Between the US and Great Britain in the NATO Framework Stay Afloat?

US Secretary of State H. Clinton said in a comment on the Strategic Defense and Security Review submitted to Great Britain's House of Commons that the country will remain the most capable US partner in the military sphere. In the past, the ties between the US and Great Britain used …

Russian President Medvedev in Turkmenistan

15:00 24.10.2010 Igor Tomberg

Russian President Medvedev in Turkmenistan

President D. Medvedev's recent talks with his Turkmen colleague Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow in Ashgabat produced significant results. Importantly, the leaders of the two major gas-exporting countries brought to the negotiating table consonant assessments of the current state of the European gas market. As Russian deputy prime minister I. Sechin explained the …

Saakashvilii: En Rote to Geopolitical Revolution in the Caucasus

15:00 22.10.2010 Svetlana Zamlelova

Saakashvilii: En Rote to Geopolitical Revolution in the Caucasus

Georgian deputy foreign minister N. Kalandadze announced on October 11 that Georgia planned to unilaterally lift the visa requirements for Russia's Caucasian republics and to allow Russian citizens residing in Dagestan, Chechnya, North Ossetia, the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, and the Republic of Adygea to visit Georgia for up …

Mexico: Another Failed State

15:00 21.10.2010 Nil Nikandrov

Mexico: Another Failed State

These days, Mexico is increasingly often added to the list of failed states. The country started to spiral downwards following the signing of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which exposed its economy, finances, and trade to the devastating pressure from the US. Mexico's industry and agricultural sector …

Yuan, Dollar, and the Future of Global Leadership

15:00 21.10.2010 Elena Pustovoytova

Yuan, Dollar, and the Future of Global Leadership

The US Congress finally ran out of patience after years of coercing China into the yuan appreciation and passed a bill authorizing the US Chamber of Commerce to slap punitive duties on Chinese imports. The very next day Beijing responded by propelling the yuan to the dollar exchange rate to …

Should Russia Seek to Join NATO?

15:00 20.10.2010 Victor Kovalev

Should Russia Seek to Join NATO?

The call for Russia's joining NATO, which was recently voiced by Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Executive Secretary Igor Yurgens, could be regarded as just one in a series of outbursts of reset-style optimism and simply ignored, considering that Russia's proponents of total change have floated countless ideas of …

Romania and Moldova: the project of “latent integration”

15:00 19.10.2010 Bogdan Tsirdya

Romania and Moldova: the project of “latent integration”

Since the Alliance for European Integration (AEI) came to power in Moldova the country’s raprochement with neigbouring Romania has speeded up. Bucharest has intensified the promotion of its interests in the republic of Moldova (RM) and expanded its presence not only in the mass media and non-governmental organizations but also …

Kosovo’s masters of puppets

15:00 18.10.2010 Pyotr Iskenderov

Kosovo’s masters of puppets

A new political crisis is ripening in Serbia’s Kosovo. The resignation of Kosovo’s President Fatmir Sejdiu was followed by the resignation of the government of Hashim Thaçi, which means that early parliamentary elections will be held. It also means the postponement of talks between Belgrade and Pristina and possibly a …

Post-Election Kyrgyzstan: Shadows of Akayev and Bakiyev

15:00 14.10.2010 Alexander Shustov

Post-Election Kyrgyzstan: Shadows of Akayev and Bakiyev

Finally, the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan to which the republic exhausted by the permanent crisis and craving for at least some sort of stability was inching so nervously are over. Contrary to alarmist forecasts, they neither were accompanied by another round of public unrest nor provoked clashes like those Kyrgyzstan's …

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