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US and Talibs: No Longer Irreconcilable

15:00 14.10.2010 Elena Pustovoytova

US and Talibs: No Longer Irreconcilable

The US Administration and Afghanistan's government chose to get in touch with the Haqqani clan renown as a particularly ominous group in the ranks of the Afghan resistance. No doubt, the step reflects Washington's awareness of its inability to prevail in the conflict in Afghanistan, and the Talibs' guerrilla tactic …

Workers' Party of Korea’s conference: summing up the historical meeting

15:00 12.10.2010 Oleg Revenko , Alexander Vorontsov

Workers' Party of Korea’s conference: summing up the historical meeting

The meeting of North Korea’s ruling party (Workers' Party of Korea - WPK) on September 28, the first one since the party’s congress of 1980, is the most important event in country’s domestic policy.Note, that the gatherings of the ruling party are rather exceptional events which are not held on …

Elections in Brazil and the US Intelligence Community

15:00 07.10.2010 Nil Nikandrov

Elections in Brazil and the US Intelligence Community

It seemed suspicious recently that Washington which tends to denigrate the “immature” democracies of Latin America and the Caribbean without restraint made serious efforts to demonstrate respect for Brazil. G. Bush's Administration bracketed as “immature” the Latin American states with populist regimes and, generally, any countries showing a measure of …

US Dollar vs. Yuan: Reasons Behind the Conflict

15:00 06.10.2010 Alexander Salitsky

US Dollar vs. Yuan: Reasons Behind the Conflict

Debates between the US and China over the valuation of the yuan are currently gathering momentum. A new campaign of pressure on Beijing is initiated by the US Congress which proposed a bill authorizing the government to slap duties on China's imports based on the view that the yuan is …

Collapse of the Alliance for European Integration

15:00 05.10.2010 Marian Lupu

Collapse of the Alliance for European Integration

Interview with the Democrat Party leader 1. From your perspective, what is the current state of the relations between Russia and Moldova? In the context, what can you say about the agreement of cooperation between the United Russia party and Moldova's Democrat Party? In my view, at the moment the …

Ecuador Coup Attempt Engineered by the CIA

15:00 04.10.2010 Nil Nikandrov

Ecuador Coup Attempt Engineered by the CIA

Ecuador's police forces played the key role in the coup attempt which shattered the country on September 30. The passing of a law affecting the police officers' bonuses and job benefits became a pretext for the rebellion which erupted in the capital city of Quito and the Guayquil seaport town. …

China: Modernization Goes On

15:00 30.09.2010 Alexander Salitsky

China: Modernization Goes On

The 61th anniversary of the Chinese Republic is celebrated in Beijing rather modestly. The country is preoccupied with its current tasks as it faces reemerging inflation, unemployment, excessively fast urbanization, and unrestrained energy consumption. Nevertheless, it is clear that China manages to sustain its exceptional growth and that its march …

What the Future Holds for Venezuela Following the Elections

15:00 29.09.2010 Nil Nikandrov

What the Future Holds for Venezuela Following the Elections

According to the finalized official count, the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) led by president Hugo Chavez won 98 of the 165 seats in the country's parliament, the result achieved by the opposition represented by the Coalition for Democratic Unity (MUD) being 65 seats. Chavez used to express …

Boomerang of terror comes back to France

15:00 29.09.2010 Pyotr Iskenderov

Boomerang of terror comes back to France

Life in France came to a standstill amid report of new threats. The country’s interior minister Brice Hortefeux has urged to raise terror alert level. The French national police director Frederic Pechenard confirmed that new threats were very likely and named public transport among the most probable objects for attacks. …

The Interlocking of Drug Business, Corruption, and Politics

15:00 24.09.2010 Alexander Barentsev

The Interlocking of Drug Business, Corruption, and Politics

A handful of the world's countries are responsible for most of the global drug output (cannabis is the only narcotic culture which has practically unlimited tolerance to climate conditions and can be cultivated in the majority of geographic zones). The Andean Belt countries – Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia – supply …

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