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Arms Race: Russia Ready to Pay the Price

14:00 07.12.2010 Yuri Rubtsov

Arms Race: Russia Ready to Pay the Price

Back when the NEW START, the ams control treaty currently awaiting ratification by the US Senate, was being put together, Washington attempted to deny the obvious fact that the reduction of strategic nuclear arsenals and the missile defense were interlocking themes. It should be credited entirely to the efforts of …

OSCE Summit in Astana: No result, but Sustaining the Process Already a Success

14:00 06.12.2010 Elena Ponomareva

OSCE Summit in Astana: No result, but Sustaining the Process Already a Success

The 1975 Helsinki Act which became the foundation on which the OSCE was built reflected a compromise between the Western and the Eastern blocs and as such established a fairly incoherent mix of principles in the international relations. One group of contradictions found in the Helsinki Act stems from the …

The Korean Peninsula: a Territory of Recurring Crises

14:00 29.11.2010 Oleg Revenko , Alexander Vorontsov

The Korean Peninsula: a Territory of Recurring Crises

A new escalation took place on the Korean Peninsula. The crisis began to unravel when a US envoy who visited N. Korea stated that up to 2,000 centrifuges were installed at the Yongbyon uranium enrichment facilities. The number, albeit too low to worry that the production of weapons-grade plutonium was …

As hope of euro fails, Europe’s fate depends on Germans

14:00 28.11.2010 Vladimir Nesterov

As hope of euro fails, Europe’s fate depends on Germans

On November 23, the German newspaper Die Welt wrote: “Hopes that euro will unite the society have failed”. On the contrary, the gap between the countries, which earlier had unstable currencies, and the countries, which were heading to stability, has become wider. Germans do not understand the love for consumption, …

The West stakes everything on parliamentary elections in Moldova

14:00 27.11.2010 Bogdan Tsirdya

The West stakes everything on parliamentary elections in Moldova

An election campaign Moldova has been witnessing as it prepares to vote for a new parliament on 28 November has turned to be rather tense, partly because of the West's meddling into the process. The campaign had just begun when twenty-seven foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) paid their …

Radical Islam attacks Central Asia

14:00 26.11.2010 Alexander Shustov

Radical Islam attacks Central Asia

Hizb ut-Tahrir and other similar international radical Islamic political organizations have intensified their activities in Central Asia. In Tajikistan several dozens of members of Hizb ut-Tahrir have been arrested. During such arrests police usually finds batches of books, brochures, CDs with the propaganda of radical Islam. In August, a court …

Central Asia Warring Over Water

14:00 25.11.2010 Alexander Shustov

Central Asia Warring Over Water

The water dispute between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan stemming from the Rogun hydroelectric plant project and the related problem of water volumes availability intensified this fall. One of the causes behind the escalation is that Tajikistan is about to face the traditional seasonal electricity rationing, another – that Russia's involvement in …

The Lisbon Reset

14:00 21.11.2010 Elena Ponomareva

The Lisbon Reset

The adoption of a new strategic concept by NATO at the alliance's Lisbon summit is a development of historical proportions which in many respects directly affects Russia's interests. Stating clearly that “NATO poses no threat to Russia”, the document reflects strategic shifts in NATO's relations with the country. The pledge …

The Nuremberg Trial: To Early to Belong to Archives

14:00 20.11.2010 Alexander Mezyaev

The Nuremberg Trial: To Early to Belong to Archives

November 20, 2010 is the 65th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trial, which took 11 months and ended with death sentences to 12 key Nazi war criminals. Thoroughly studied by historians, the Trial nevertheless remains terra incognita in some aspects, and its perception is heavily burdened with stereotypes. For example, these …

An apparition at NATO’s Lisbon summit

14:00 18.11.2010 M.K. Bhadrakumar

An apparition at NATO’s Lisbon summit

The NATO forces aren’t going anywhere from Afghanistan. They will remain in the Hindu Kush for as long as it takes. Richard Holbrooke, United States Special Representative for AfPak is on record that the Lisbon summit will have on its agenda no exit strategy for Afghanistan but rather a mere …

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