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''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 …

The West's Most Convincing Argument

14:00 11.03.2011 Dmitri Sedov

The West's Most Convincing Argument

The statement made by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen that the alliance is not going to launch an operation in Libya without UN blessing grabbed the headlines. Rasmussen did voice extreme concern over the situation in the country and expressed the view that the steps taken by Gadhafi's regime …

New START and the Missile Defense: the Evaporating Guarantees

14:00 10.03.2011 Yuri Rubtsov

New START and the Missile Defense: the Evaporating Guarantees

Overwhelmed with the outbursts of white noise which accompanied the New START ratification, for a period of time the Russian diplomacy seemed oblivious to Washington's missile defense plans, including those pertinent to the European part of the missile shield. Moscow's wishlist at the final phase of the ratification process in …

Sudan: Partitioned, not Falling Apart

14:00 05.03.2011 Alexander Mezyaev

Sudan: Partitioned, not Falling Apart

On February 9, the UN Security Council passed a resolution confirming the outcome of the referendum in Sudan which by 98.83% of the vote established its southern part as an independent state. The new country will be officially welcomed to the map of the world on July 9. An array …

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