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Central Asia Warring Over Water

14:00 25.11.2010 Alexander Shustov

Central Asia Warring Over Water

The water dispute between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan stemming from the Rogun hydroelectric plant project and the related problem of water volumes availability intensified this fall. One of the causes behind the escalation is that Tajikistan is about to face the traditional seasonal electricity rationing, another – that Russia's involvement in …

The Lisbon Reset

14:00 21.11.2010 Elena Ponomareva

The Lisbon Reset

The adoption of a new strategic concept by NATO at the alliance's Lisbon summit is a development of historical proportions which in many respects directly affects Russia's interests. Stating clearly that “NATO poses no threat to Russia”, the document reflects strategic shifts in NATO's relations with the country. The pledge …

The Nuremberg Trial: To Early to Belong to Archives

14:00 20.11.2010 Alexander Mezyaev

The Nuremberg Trial: To Early to Belong to Archives

November 20, 2010 is the 65th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trial, which took 11 months and ended with death sentences to 12 key Nazi war criminals. Thoroughly studied by historians, the Trial nevertheless remains terra incognita in some aspects, and its perception is heavily burdened with stereotypes. For example, these …

An apparition at NATO’s Lisbon summit

14:00 18.11.2010 M.K. Bhadrakumar

An apparition at NATO’s Lisbon summit

The NATO forces aren’t going anywhere from Afghanistan. They will remain in the Hindu Kush for as long as it takes. Richard Holbrooke, United States Special Representative for AfPak is on record that the Lisbon summit will have on its agenda no exit strategy for Afghanistan but rather a mere …

An Epilogue to the Seoul Summit

14:00 18.11.2010 Vladimir Nesterov

An Epilogue to the Seoul Summit

Several days since the Seoul G20 summit, the majority of comments are quite reasonably displaying a total lack of optimism. The forum passed the Seoul declaration, churned out several other documents, and generated an initiative to establish a global financial security network mostly based on the IMF mechanisms. The summit …

The Cost Russia Will Pay for NATO Rapprochement

14:00 16.11.2010 Victor Kovalev

The Cost Russia Will Pay for NATO Rapprochement

The NATO summit which will convene in Lisbon on November 19-20 will adopt the alliance's new strategic concept switching NATO from regional defense to global-scale missions in the interests of the core of the modern capitalist world-system. In practice, the reform will institutionalize the West's victory in the Cold World …

Atlantism: Sneaking into Russia via the EU

14:00 15.11.2010 Leonid Savin

Atlantism: Sneaking into Russia via the EU

Recent political developments in the EU show that certain forces in Europe and the US are implementing in the western part of Eurasia a New Atlantism project aligned with the US plan for the game on the Grand Chessboard. Ideologically, Atlantim is premised in the assumption that the US should …

China and US: a clash of interests

14:00 13.11.2010 Alexander Salitsky

China and US: a clash of interests

Two events which had been anticipated for quite long took place in the U.S. shortly before the G20 summit in Seoul. On 2 November the Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives, and on 3 November the U.S. Federal Reserve announced that it would pump $600 billion into the …

G20 in the Labyrinths of the Global Economy

14:00 12.11.2010 Elena Ponomareva

G20 in the Labyrinths of the Global Economy

The Seoul G20 summit will stay on record as a failed attempt to find a way out of the labyrinths of the global economy. At the moment the group of twenty global economy champions is locked in two bitter disputes: one between the proficit and the deficit countries and the …

G20 and the Federal Reserve's Dictate

14:00 11.11.2010 Elena Pustovoytova

G20 and the Federal Reserve's Dictate

The US Federal Reserve announced it would additionally pump some freshly printed $600b into the economy via a new treasuries buying program. The message thus sent to the world is that as always the Federal Reserve is going to advance its own interests regardless of the impact of its steps …

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