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Who chooses the new arms race?

14:00 23.12.2010 Yuri Rubtsov

Who chooses the new arms race?

The last days of 2010 were marked by hot disputes in the US Senate on the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty agreement (START) signed between Russia and the US. On this occasion the commander of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces Sergey Karakayev invited reporters to his headquarters in the Vlasikha …

How the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Can Help Tackle the Afghan Conundrum

14:00 22.12.2010 Nikolai Kozyrev

How the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Can Help Tackle the Afghan Conundrum

Considering that the hope to crush the resistance of radical groups in Afghanistan is not materializing while the scheduled withdrawal of the Western coalition from the country is drawing closer, Russia is left with no other option but to take a bigger role in tackling the Afghan and the wider …

End of an Epoch or a Fresh Start?

14:00 20.12.2010 Andrei Volodin

End of an Epoch or a Fresh Start?

Russian president D. Medvedev will visit Delhi on December 21-22. Russia and India share a decades-long record of strategic partnership, and – considering that the relations between the two countries will largely shape the configuration of the emerging post-unipolar world order - the two heavyweights' contacts are drawing attention worldwide. …

Fifteen Years Since Dayton

14:00 14.12.2010 Alexander Mezyaev

Fifteen Years Since Dayton

The Dayton deal between the warring sides in Bosnia and Herzegovina was sealed fifteen years ago, on December 14, 1995. It marked a novel approach to negotiations which is generally credited to US veteran diplomat Richard C. Holbrooke who died this Monday – the opponents stayed locked up until an …

WikiLeaks and Latin America

14:00 13.12.2010 Nil Nikandrov

WikiLeaks and Latin America

The collection of US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks includes some 20,000 documents pertaining to Latin America. Roughly 13,000 of them came to the US Department of State from the US embassies in Mexico, Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Lima, Santiago de Chile, and Bogota, while the remaining 7,000 originated from Caracas, …

The Yuan's Future Role in the Global Financial System

14:00 11.12.2010 Alexander Salitsky

The Yuan's Future Role in the Global Financial System

The planned December 15 opening of the rouble-yuan trading in Russia is a symbolic and potentially historical event. It reflects tectonic shifts in the world's economy and politics and accordingly promises a transformation of the global financial architecture. At the moment China's contribution to the global economy far exceeds the …

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, …

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