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BRICS and the Mission of Reconfiguring the World

15:00 18.04.2011 Leonid Ivashov

BRICS and the Mission of Reconfiguring the World

More than ever over the past decade, geopolitics watchers whose approach to international developments is - in line with the projections made by founders of the school of thought N.Ya. Danilevsky, O. Spengler, and A.J. Toynbee - premised in the assumption that distinct civilizations will overshadow countries and ethnic groups …

Forces Regrouped in World Politics?

15:00 12.04.2011 Andrei Volodin

Forces Regrouped in World Politics?

The BRICS summit will convene in China's Sanya beach resort on April 14. For the first time in the alliance's relatively short history, South Africa will participate in the forum as a member along with Brazil, Russia, India, and China, while the disquieting political settings of the early 2011 reinforce …

Call for an Immediate Ceasefire in Libya

15:00 05.04.2011 Nil Nikandrov

Call for an Immediate Ceasefire in Libya

On March 31, a group of developing countries — Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mali, Equatorial Guinea, etc. - called the UN Security Council to impose a ceasefire on Libya and to take urgent steps to settle the conflict in and around the country. Talks between M. …

''Days of anger'': new era of revolutions

15:00 01.04.2011 Yuri Gavrilechko

''Days of anger'': new era of revolutions

This year started with a wave of social uprising in Maghrib, which later spread to the most part of the Arab North Africa and the Middle East. Though historical significance of these events will become clear only with time, now we still can make some conclusions and see what these …

The Arab Revolutions: a Preliminary Assessment

15:00 28.03.2011 Andrei Volodin

The Arab Revolutions: a Preliminary Assessment

The situation in Libya is evidently headed for a quagmire. At the moment, the vision of the situation should not be limited to the viewpoint of the Western coalition's member countries (which remain divided over quite a few key issues and whose governments will yet endure fiery criticism over the …

EU’s energy after Fukushima

15:00 28.03.2011 Natalia Meden

EU’s energy after Fukushima

The way the European Commission react on the nuclear disaster at Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant in Japan does not coincide with the common idea of clumsiness of the European bureaucracy machine. The decisions to carry out stress-tests of Europe’s nuclear power plants and to elaborate new nuclear security standards were …

A Strategy Aimed at Ruining Libya

14:00 21.03.2011 Elena Ponomareva

A Strategy Aimed at Ruining Libya

A death sentence to Libya's sovereignty was handed out long before the protests inspired by Western intelligence services shook the country and the UN Security Council responded to the situation with anti-Libyan resolutions. There are fundamental causes behind the strategy aimed at ruining Libya. Years ago, it was designated as …

Crisis in Libya

14:00 18.03.2011 Boris Dolgov

Crisis in Libya

Libya is at the epicenter of the crisis unfolding across the Arab world. The anti-Gadhafi protests which broke out in February promptly escalated into an armed uprising. Rebels gained control over Libya's eastern provinces, the key city of Benghazi, and a number of Mediterranean centers. Parts of Libya's armed forces …

The Arabian Revolutions and Central Asia

14:00 16.03.2011 Alexander Shustov

The Arabian Revolutions and Central Asia

A wave of anti-government protests in the Arab world has made us think about whether such events are possible in other parts of the planet. Then Central Asia comes to mind immediately as a region which has much in common with the Arab civilization. The leaders of Central Asian regions …

Fukushima: the Technology of Deception

14:00 14.03.2011 Victor Kovalev

Fukushima: the Technology of Deception

A typical technology of deception is to tell the truth, but not the whole truth. The coverage of the recent catastrophes at Japan's Fukushima 1 and Fukushima 2 nuclear power plants seems to be built on the above principle. According to media reports, the March 11, 2011 8.9 magnitude earthquake …

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