Oriental Review

Russia’s Role in East Asia

By Konstantin PENZEV (Russia)

To begin with, I need to briefly describe a new problem that Russia encountered in the first decade of the 21st century and which promises to become central to its foreign trade and foreign policy. Western civilization has lost its former economic and military might in recent years. First of all, as Samuel P Huntington [...]

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NB: “The Murder of Muammar Qaddafi Is Planned For May 2, 2011″

By Kirill SVETITSKY (Russia)

ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes a note-worthy report by a Russian blogger on the fate of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. In few days we will check the credibility of this analysis. It was reported by a Russian source that the special divisions and army units of France, Great Britain and USA will take part in the special [...]

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Turkey-Iran: Approach And Rivalry? (II)

By Gregory TINSKY (Russia)

Part I Competing for influence over the Middle East, Ankara and Tehran will inevitably clash in Syria If Iran manages to restore the pre-war state of oil production in the nearest years, Turkey will have all the chances to gain independence from Iranian supplies. According to Davutoglu doctrine, Turkey develops its economic partnership with all [...]

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Turkey – Iran: Approach And Rivalry? (I)

By Gregory TINSKY (Russia)

Erdoğan fights Ahmadinejad for sympathies of Arabs Middle East has once again become the ball game that drawn the attention of entire world. Former empires — Turkey and Iran — approach each other, although desperately competing with each other at the same time. Arabian world is at stake in this struggle of no joke. And [...]

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Gaddafi and the West’s Cynicism

By Leonid IVASHOV (Russia)

The passing of the UN Security Council Resolution 1973 was an act of utmost cynicism. Instead of preserving peace, the UN Security Council – not for the first time over the past years, by the way, blessed international banditry, the pillage of national assets by Western corporations and banks, the demolition of a sovereign statehood, [...]

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The Agony of Libya: What Can Be Done (I)

By Najmuddin A. SHAIKH (Pakistan)

The people of Libya are in deep trouble. Gaddafi is managing to retain his hold on the capital Tripoli and much of the west of the country and keeping under pressure the rebels who seem to have secured the eastern city of Benghazi thanks to the intervention of the UN Security Council sanctioned creation of [...]

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Passionate for Palestinian Independence

By Vitaly BILAN (Ukraine)

Increased Palestinian activity After the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations process broke down last year, the Palestinian National Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas launched an active campaign to get unilateral recognition for Palestine as an independent state. As a payoff, several countries recognized Palestine within the 1967 borders. Furthermore, a recent report by, Robert Serry, the UN Special [...]

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Oil and War In Libya

By Sergey PRAVOSUDOV (Russia)

High oil prices have recently become word of the day. Economists are arguing about how long this trend will last and whether it will cause another world crisis. When the USA along with their NATO allies started the military operation in Libya, numerous observers were perplexed, as long as Americans have already waged two wars [...]

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It is Time for Obama to Demonstrate True Courage and Statesmanship

By Iqbal ALIMOHAMED

John F. Kennedy said: “There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” For Mr. Obama, it is time for action! When Mr Obama was elected to the US Presidency, he vowed to tackle and resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Today, [...]

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Can BRICS Soften Dollar Crisis?

By Alexander SALITZKI (Russia)

On April 10, in an interview with a CNN host and political observer Fareed Zakaria, the former secretary of state James Baker, when he was speaking about the current global changes, said the following: “The biggest challenge facing the U.S. isn’t turmoil in the Arab world. It’s our debt bomb”. He said that without a [...]

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Muammar Gaddafi And Sober Media

By Rafe MAIR (Canada)

“The first casualty of war is the truth” said American Senator Hiram Johnson. “In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies” – Winston Churchill. If nothing else the world’s media have proved those two aphorisms in spades as the coverage of the Libya “revolution” so [...]

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Al-Qaeda Front May Emerge on Europe’s Southern Border

By Stanislav TARASOV (Russia)

Hopes by the Western anti-Libya military coalition that Gadhafi’s regime would fall quickly have been replaced by fears of a prolonged stalemate. The direst predictions are beginning to come true, particularly those by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: that the Libyan crisis may go the way of Afghanistan or Iraq. The West’s initial stated [...]

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