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German businessmen on prospects of economic relations with Russia

14:33 14.02.2012 Natalia Meden

German businessmen on prospects of economic relations with Russia

How do foreign investors take the prospects, which are opening up for them in Russia after the presidential elections? “The Nezavisimaya Gazeta” daily quotes the forecast by the chief economist of HSBC group who says that the investors are scared by the coming 2012 election and new political risks linked …

On current situation in Syria

15:00 01.02.2012 Boris Dolgov

On current situation in Syria

The current situation in Syria remains one of the most important components of the Middle Eastern and international policies. Using Syria’s domestic crisis and pursuing their own goals NATO’s leading states, Israel, Turkey and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are trying to undermine the Syrian regime. Since the beginning …

The Conundrum of Iran

14:40 01.02.2012 Leonid Savin

The Conundrum of Iran

The EU oil embargo recently slapped on Iran and the threats voiced by the US and other Western countries to come up with further sanctions against the country led watchers to conclude that an armed conflict between Iran and the West finally became imminent. The first potential scenario in the …

Imperialism for a cash-strapped era: Storms below the surface (Part II)

15:00 24.01.2012 M.K. Bhadrakumar

Imperialism for a cash-strapped era: Storms below the surface (Part II)

Part I The “color revolution” will continue to be the preferred route for the United States in effecting regime change in Central Asia. But the limits to the United States’s capacity to intervene also cannot but be noted. As a perceptive observer recently noted, the US is a “renter rather …

Imperialism for a cash-strapped era: Storms below the surface (Part I)

15:00 18.01.2012 M.K. Bhadrakumar

Imperialism for a cash-strapped era: Storms below the surface (Part I)

The United States’ defence strategy unveiled by President Barack Obama in Washington on January 5 has been occasioned by the need to slash the spending of the Pentagon by nearly half a trillion dollars over the next decade. There is undeniably some merit in the viewpoint that this is a …

Euroschizophrenia 2011

15:00 13.01.2012 Pyotr Iskenderov

Euroschizophrenia 2011

The year 2011 will be remembered as a period of unprecedented uncertainty in the history of modern Europe. On the one hand, contrary to widespread apocalyptic expectations, the EU did not crumble and the amplitude of the oscillations in the value of the relatively young European currency did stay within …

Syria and the New Model of International Transformations

15:00 28.12.2011 Alexander Mezyaev

Syria and the New Model of International Transformations

Early this month, as Russia was in the process of assuming chairmanship in the UN Security Council, Moscow's envoy said Syria was not on the UN SC December agenda. Still, the theme of Syria has become the subject of permanent heated debates during unofficial consultations and surfaced in the discussions …

Clashes in Kazakhstan: inspired by the Arab Spring?

15:00 19.12.2011 Alexander Shustov

Clashes in Kazakhstan: inspired by the Arab Spring?

In the past few months Kazakhstan, once the quietest country in Central Asia, has turned into a hotbed of extremism. On December 16th when Kazakhstan marked its Independence Day, violent clashes took place in the western town of Zhanaozen in Mangistau district. State-run media and opposition supporters offer an absolutely …

Great Britain, Greece and Austria set the trends in the EU (II)

15:00 17.12.2011 Pyotr Iskenderov

Great Britain, Greece and Austria set the trends in the EU (II)

Part 1 Back in summer of 2008, amid difficulties with the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty on reforming the EU many officials in the EU government began to speak at their informal meetings about the future of Europe “at different speeds” and “concentric circles” of Europe. These concepts implied that …

Great Britain, Greece, and Austria Set the Trends in the EU (I)

15:00 16.12.2011 Pyotr Iskenderov

Great Britain, Greece, and Austria Set the Trends in the EU (I)

Part IIThe resolutions of the December 8-9 EU summit which had evoked heightened expectations eventually left a mixed impression. The official agenda of the forum appeared all-embracing, with the leaders of the 27 countries of the united Europe touching upon every issue from the Balkan politics and Iran's nuclear problem …

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