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Common European Missile Defense: Cooperation or Confrontation? (Part I)

15:00 22.11.2011 Vladimir Kozin

Common European Missile Defense: Cooperation or Confrontation? (Part I)

The positions which Washington and the NATO headquarters in Brussels adopted at the consultations on a joint Russia-USA/NATO European ballistic missile defense (BMD) system have recently drawn a new round of criticisms from the Russian military-political leadership. Such stances on the current state of the consultations was expressed by Russia's …

Division of Kosovo: “pros” and “cons”

15:00 21.11.2011 Pyotr Iskenderov

Division of Kosovo: “pros” and “cons”

The statement about a possible division of Kosovo made by the chairman of the Kosovo Assembly Jakup Krasniqi ahead of the resumption of talks between Belgrade and Pristine may give a new direction to the burning discussion on Kosovo issue.If earlier Kosovo’s Albanian leaders vigorously opposed the very possibility of …

Nord Stream Launch and Europe's Energy Future

15:00 11.11.2011 Natalia Meden

Nord Stream Launch and Europe's Energy Future

On September 8, Russian president D. Medvedev, German chancellor A. Merkel, prime ministers of France and the Netherlands Francois Fillon and Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Erwin Sellering, EU Energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger, and CEOs of Nord Stream consortium partners inaugurated the Nord Stream pipeline and opened the …

Convincing victory of “populism” in Nicaragua

15:00 10.11.2011 Nil Nikandrov

Convincing victory of “populism” in Nicaragua

On November 6, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega was re-elected winning 64 % of votes. The key points of his election program are laconic and comprehensible for Nicaraguan people: socialism, Christianity, free market. Ortega’s opponents have failed to come up with a more convincing alternative. His closest rival - an 80 …

Sexual Activity as a Mega-Weapon for the Middle East

15:00 10.11.2011 Alexander Levchenko

Sexual Activity as a Mega-Weapon for the Middle East

It does not take a rocket scientist to realize that, while social media like Facebook and Twitter can be instrumental in bringing crowds of discontent to the streets, the protesters will in all cases be led by those who have built a real rather than virtual organization geared towards inducing …

What will decide the fate of Syria?

15:00 08.11.2011 Dmitri Sedov

What will decide the fate of Syria?

The deeper the crisis in Syria, the more evident it becomes that its former ally, Turkey, has played its part in the process. As the only moderate Islamic NATO member state, Turkey has turned into a springboard for the Syrian opposition. Istanbul announced the creation of a Syrian national council, …

Why does the International Criminal Court keep silence on Gaddafi`s death?

15:00 24.10.2011 Alexander Mezyaev

Why does the International Criminal Court keep silence on Gaddafi`s death?

The alleged killing of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has brought several crucial issues of international law to the forefront. Though it is evident that many pieces of video footage featuring Gaddafi`s last hours are fake, still there are some which may prove real. It is easy to explain why …

Europe: Change of Ruling Elites on the Horizon

15:00 23.10.2011 Pyotr Iskenderov

Europe: Change of Ruling Elites on the Horizon

As the tide of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations sweeps across European cities, the impression is growing that the future holds a lot of unexpected for the EU. The protests which are carefully coordinated via social media can't but evoke memories of the recent uprisings in North Africa and the …

Eastern Partnership Close to Expiration Date?

15:00 14.10.2011 Dmitri Tymchuk

Eastern Partnership Close to Expiration Date?

Economically and politically embattled, the EU nevertheless struggles to retain whatever influence it has over the post-Soviet republics. In the process, Brussels mostly relies on its already floated initiatives including the Eastern Partnership, a project which reflects the European Union's attempt to outpace the US in pulling FSU countries out …

Russia a Force to Be Reckoned with in the Coming Years

15:00 13.10.2011 Dmitri Sedov

Russia a Force to Be Reckoned with in the Coming Years

It is not going to be forgotten any time soon how, at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy in 2007, V. Putin charged the US with building a unipolar world at the cost of “frequently illegitimate actions” and “new human tragedies”. A key point that loomed through the energetic …

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