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The Battle of Borodino 1812

15:00 01.11.2012 Mark Rapley

The Battle of Borodino 1812

Victory and Failure The bi-centenial of the Battle of Borodino, which along with the great Patriotic War of 1941 to 1945, is one of the two great features of modern Russia’s historical identity, has prompted an understandable frisson of patriotic pride in the Russian nation. It is well deserved. The …

Secrets Behind September 11

15:00 11.09.2012 Nikolai Malishevski

Secrets Behind September 11

Surveys conducted across the US show thatthe majority of Americans, including senior citizens old enough to remember the US entry into World War II, regard the September, 11, 2001 drama as exceeding in historical importance the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. Speaking of the latter, these days it is an open …

India and APEC: Center of Mutual Gravitation

15:00 05.09.2012 Andrei Volodin

India and APEC: Center of Mutual Gravitation

The 24th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) annual summit is to take place on September 2-8 in Vladivostok. Today APEC is the largest economic forum for 21 Asia-Pacific nations accounting for 57% of world GNP and 48% of world trade. As is known India has requested membership in the organization. Russia …

Mars can speak

1:00 22.08.2012 Elena Studneva

Mars can speak

New generation rover with affectionate name "Curiosity» (Curiosity) NASA researchers launched in November 2011 and safely reached the Red Planet Aug. 6, 2012. It separated from migratory module. For the first time the technology has been tested Sky Crane unit descended from a flying platform on the surface of Mars …

EU Mistakes and Lessons for Future Eurasian Union

15:00 10.08.2012 Yuri Gavrilechko

EU Mistakes and Lessons for Future Eurasian Union

The globalization actually encompasses all aspects of private and social life. It also has a dramatic and miserable side of the coin: the differentiation of society, the breakup of traditional interpersonal ties (the decline of family values is a bright example), the growing isolation of individual in the “global” world… …

Traian Basescu a Mirror of European Nationalism

15:00 31.07.2012 Pyotr Iskenderov

Traian Basescu a Mirror of European Nationalism

The collapse of the Romanian opposition's initiative to unseat president of the country Traian Basescu briefly drew heightened attention to the embattled political leader and, upon scrutiny, highlighted the ongoing erosion of the European unity. The critics of Basescu still credit themselves with the failed referendum as a major political …

Syrian Crisis Escalating

15:00 02.07.2012 Boris Dolgov

Syrian Crisis Escalating

Syria's crisis remains the focal point of the world politics as a new escalation in and around the country broke out last week. The root cause of the conflict unraveling in Syria since March, 2011 is that external forces provide crucial support to the armed opposition groups which unleashed a …

Africa in the Multipolar World

15:00 02.07.2012 Vladislav Gulevich

Africa in the Multipolar World

The recent global developments – unrest in the Arab world, the rise of illicit arms business, the proliferation of terrorism – increasingly often turn the attention of global audiences towards Africa. The region seems to be loaded with a complete array of present-day problems and currently faces the consequences of …

China's Growing Economic Importance to Central Asia

15:00 29.06.2012 Alexander Shustov

China's Growing Economic Importance to Central Asia

The June summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) highlighted China's swelling economic presence in Central Asia. Chinese premier Hu Jintao unveiled an ambitious agenda for the region, with $10b in loans to be infused into the corresponding projects. At the moment, the Chinese investments in Central Asian republics estimatedly …

Geopolitical Context of South Stream

15:00 08.06.2012 Pyotr Iskenderov

Geopolitical Context of South Stream

Russian president V. Putin confirmed at the Russia-EU recent summit that the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline would begin by the end of 2013 and projected that it would take 1.5-2 years to bring the planned infrastructures online [1]. He mentioned that the project was seriously re-energized last …

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