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Yuan, Dollar, and the Future of Global Leadership

15:00 21.10.2010 Elena Pustovoytova

Yuan, Dollar, and the Future of Global Leadership

The US Congress finally ran out of patience after years of coercing China into the yuan appreciation and passed a bill authorizing the US Chamber of Commerce to slap punitive duties on Chinese imports. The very next day Beijing responded by propelling the yuan to the dollar exchange rate to …

Should Russia Seek to Join NATO?

15:00 20.10.2010 Victor Kovalev

Should Russia Seek to Join NATO?

The call for Russia's joining NATO, which was recently voiced by Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Executive Secretary Igor Yurgens, could be regarded as just one in a series of outbursts of reset-style optimism and simply ignored, considering that Russia's proponents of total change have floated countless ideas of …

Romania and Moldova: the project of “latent integration”

15:00 19.10.2010 Bogdan Tsirdya

Romania and Moldova: the project of “latent integration”

Since the Alliance for European Integration (AEI) came to power in Moldova the country’s raprochement with neigbouring Romania has speeded up. Bucharest has intensified the promotion of its interests in the republic of Moldova (RM) and expanded its presence not only in the mass media and non-governmental organizations but also …

Kosovo’s masters of puppets

15:00 18.10.2010 Pyotr Iskenderov

Kosovo’s masters of puppets

A new political crisis is ripening in Serbia’s Kosovo. The resignation of Kosovo’s President Fatmir Sejdiu was followed by the resignation of the government of Hashim Thaçi, which means that early parliamentary elections will be held. It also means the postponement of talks between Belgrade and Pristina and possibly a …

Post-Election Kyrgyzstan: Shadows of Akayev and Bakiyev

15:00 14.10.2010 Alexander Shustov

Post-Election Kyrgyzstan: Shadows of Akayev and Bakiyev

Finally, the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan to which the republic exhausted by the permanent crisis and craving for at least some sort of stability was inching so nervously are over. Contrary to alarmist forecasts, they neither were accompanied by another round of public unrest nor provoked clashes like those Kyrgyzstan's …

US and Talibs: No Longer Irreconcilable

15:00 14.10.2010 Elena Pustovoytova

US and Talibs: No Longer Irreconcilable

The US Administration and Afghanistan's government chose to get in touch with the Haqqani clan renown as a particularly ominous group in the ranks of the Afghan resistance. No doubt, the step reflects Washington's awareness of its inability to prevail in the conflict in Afghanistan, and the Talibs' guerrilla tactic …

Workers' Party of Korea’s conference: summing up the historical meeting

15:00 12.10.2010 Oleg Revenko , Alexander Vorontsov

Workers' Party of Korea’s conference: summing up the historical meeting

The meeting of North Korea’s ruling party (Workers' Party of Korea - WPK) on September 28, the first one since the party’s congress of 1980, is the most important event in country’s domestic policy.Note, that the gatherings of the ruling party are rather exceptional events which are not held on …

Elections in Brazil and the US Intelligence Community

15:00 07.10.2010 Nil Nikandrov

Elections in Brazil and the US Intelligence Community

It seemed suspicious recently that Washington which tends to denigrate the “immature” democracies of Latin America and the Caribbean without restraint made serious efforts to demonstrate respect for Brazil. G. Bush's Administration bracketed as “immature” the Latin American states with populist regimes and, generally, any countries showing a measure of …

US Dollar vs. Yuan: Reasons Behind the Conflict

15:00 06.10.2010 Alexander Salitsky

US Dollar vs. Yuan: Reasons Behind the Conflict

Debates between the US and China over the valuation of the yuan are currently gathering momentum. A new campaign of pressure on Beijing is initiated by the US Congress which proposed a bill authorizing the government to slap duties on China's imports based on the view that the yuan is …

Collapse of the Alliance for European Integration

15:00 05.10.2010 Marian Lupu

Collapse of the Alliance for European Integration

Interview with the Democrat Party leader 1. From your perspective, what is the current state of the relations between Russia and Moldova? In the context, what can you say about the agreement of cooperation between the United Russia party and Moldova's Democrat Party? In my view, at the moment the …

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