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Russia-Armenia: improvement of relations amid information attacks

15:00 17.08.2010 Andrey Areshev

Russia-Armenia: improvement of relations amid information attacks

Months before the official visit of President Dmitry Medvedev to Armenia scheduled for August 19-21, experts in both countries focused on bilateral relations between Moscow and Yerevan, a thing which proves the following: like the whole post-Soviet territory, the Caucasus remains a place where Russia, the West (U.S. and the …

Renaissance of Ethnic Separatism In «United Europe»

15:00 16.08.2010 Pyotr Iskenderov

Renaissance of Ethnic Separatism In «United Europe»

New serious inter-ethnic conflicts are brewing in Europe as it battles the global economic crisis. Typically they are deeply rooted in history, but the very fact that the renaissance of ethnic separatism in Europe is taking place in the epoch of European integration is noteworthy. Obviously, the enlargement of NATO …

Two Years Since the Five-Day War

15:00 14.08.2010 Andrey Areshev

Two Years Since the Five-Day War

The International Association of Ossetian Communities held rallies in several European cities on the eve of the anniversary of Georgia's aggression against South Ossetia. In Brussels, Strasbourg, Berlin, and Ankara, protesters demanded the recognition of South Ossetia's independence, official condemnations of the Georgian policy, and the release of Ossetian prisoners. …

US armed forces in Central Asia – built to last

15:00 12.08.2010 Alexander Shustov

US armed forces in Central Asia – built to last

The US plans to build military training centers in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. First these plans were announced last year and they received a wide response because earlier it had been announced that a Russian military base would be built in the south of Kyrgyzstan. Now Pentagon is not going to …

Arms Control: the US Continues Violating Its Obligations

15:00 11.08.2010 Yuri Rubtsov

Arms Control: the US Continues Violating Its Obligations

Russia's Foreign Ministry responded to the July release of the US State Department's 2010 Report on Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments. The Report contained allegations that Russia violated the nonproliferation regime. Initially, Russia's Foreign Ministry posted a brief comment on its Web …

War Against Iran as a Method of Promoting Globalism

15:00 09.08.2010 Dmitri Sedov

War Against Iran as a Method of Promoting Globalism

There is little doubt that the US will hit Iran after pulling its troops out of Iraq. Military spending in the US has gained too much momentum to leave any hope that the current dynamics will change in the foreseeable future. The US military-industrial complex and its Pentagon partners have …

Middle East at the Point of Boiling

15:00 09.08.2010 Elena Pustovoytova

Middle East at the Point of Boiling

The truth is that the UN peacekeepers deployed at the Holan Heights are basically safeguarding the interests of Israel. Separating the aggressor and the victims of aggression is hardy the right way to bring the conflict to its final point. Reassuring UN reports notwithstanding, it will still be the point …

Hiroshima and Modernity

15:00 05.08.2010 Taras Dyachenko

Hiroshima and Modernity

Sixty five years ago, on August 6, 1945, US bomber B-29 dropped a nuclear bomb which was roughly 2,000 times more powerful than the biggest munitions used over the entire past history on the Japanese city of Hiroshima *** Fighting ended in Europe in May, 1945, but the war still …

Tensions over the European External Action Service

15:00 04.08.2010 Pyotr Iskenderov

Tensions over the European External Action Service

The situation is unfolding on the UN highest court`s verdict on Kosovo`s independence. Now that the legality of Kosovo`s 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia has been recognized, the West seems to be pushing forward its 'offensive' on the Bosnian Republika Srpska to achieve success on this stage of anti-Serbian …

The AFPAK War - A Pakistani’s Perspective

15:00 02.08.2010 Najmuddin A. SHAIKH

The AFPAK War - A Pakistani’s Perspective

Pakistanis had entertained high hopes that when President Obama assumed office his policy towards South Asia would reflect what he had said in his campaign speeches and what his past experience of living in Pakistan, where his mother had worked for many years, had made clear to him: The situation …

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