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Intervention Fund

17:25 02.02.2013 Pyotr Iskenderov

Intervention Fund

The fund created by the European Union to "support democracy" in third world countries and neighboring countries continues to overgrow with new eloquent details. According to the European Commission, the European Foundation for Democracy (European Endowment for Democracy - EED) is designed to provide cash grants to journalists, bloggers, nonprofit …

Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matviyenko: "The 21st Session of the APPF is a big step forward"

1:22 01.02.2013 Andrey Davydenko

Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matviyenko: "The 21st Session of the APPF is a big step forward"

The 21th session of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum in Vladivostok became the most representative in the history of the Forum and closed with the adoption of a "package" of 14 resolutions on key political, trade, economic and humanitarian cooperation between the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. During the plenary sessions, …

Brunei Darussalam Ratifies The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

21:03 14.01.2013

Brunei Darussalam Ratifies The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

Vienna, 14 January 2013 Brunei Darussalam has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), becoming the 158th country to do so. Tibor Tóth, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), welcomed the move: “This is not only a step towards a safer and more peaceful …

Russian helicopters in Mexico

15:00 29.11.2012 Yuri Nemtsev

Russian helicopters in Mexico

The day before Mexico`s National Navy Day, Mexico received another batch of Russian military helicopters. We are talking about a new delivery of the Mi-17V-5 model, which is made by the Kazan Helicopter Plant. The helicopters were delivered in accordance with a contract signed in December 2011, between the Russian …

Democracy in America today (I)

15:00 05.11.2012 Dmitry Minin

Democracy in America today (I)

Who has more rights to human rights?Washington believes that one of the achievements of its propaganda and diplomatic machinery was that after a meeting in Helsinki in 1975, they managed to make the so-called “third basket “which in the main placed emphasis on human rights. Decade after decade, the United …

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… …

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