Oriental Review

What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update

By Boris DOLGOV (Russia)

The current situation in Syria remains one of the most important components of the Middle Eastern and international policies. Using Syria’s domestic crisis and pursuing their own goals NATO, Israel, Turkey and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are trying to undermine the Syrian regime. Since the beginning of the crisis in Syria I have [...]

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Obama’s Byzantine Style in the ‘Greater Middle East’

By ORIENTAL REVIEW

For the last few years the incumbent US administration was getting adhered to a new, more sophisticated principle in foreign policy: to act overseas by means of its allies and to promote American initiatives as multilateral through the international organizations. Thus, the war against Libya was unleashed by France, and the US was carrying out [...]

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IAEA Report: Green Light to Strike Iran?

By ORIENTAL REVIEW

Last week a new classified IAEA Report on nuclear verification in Iran was circulated to the Agency’s Board of Governors and the UN Security Council. Curiously enough, it was immediately leaked to the Associated Press and gained a hefty coverage by the international media condemning Tehran for ‘working on all aspects of research toward making [...]

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Libyan ‘Inspiration’

By ORIENTAL REVIEW

Last week the US Senator John McCain while on visit in Libya astonished us with the following statement: “We believe very strongly that the people of Libya today are inspiring the people in Tehran, in Damascus, and even in Beijing and Moscow…” We can speak neither for Tehran and Damascus nor for Beijing. But in [...]

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Who Is Killing People in the Middle East?

By ORIENTAL REVIEW

Russian and Chinese refusal to support UN sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the end of August has caused a dramatic outburst of criticism in Western media and from the local human rights activists. On Tuesday the Facebook group ‘Syrian Revolution 2011’ posted a banner in Russian condemning Moscow for allegedly ‘killing the Syrians’. [...]

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Western Civilization Large as Life and Twice as Ugly

By Maxim SHEVCHENKO (Russia)

The 2011 riots in England have brought us back to the talks about crisis of multiculturalism in Europe. Few people understand what does it mean. But many swaggeringly take on to speak up. Their speculations lead mostly to a primitive conclusion: people with different colors of skin cannot live together. They are so different that [...]

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Blond Beast and the Future of Terror

By ORIENTAL REVIEW

Norway tragedy of the last week would apparently make a tectonic shift in global social processes. It will significantly affect European politics and influence the ideological schemes of the Western world. As always, the mainstream trend describing Anders Behring Breivik as mentally insane solo terrorist and a ‘Christian fundamentalist’ clearly reveals the villainous plan of [...]

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US in Afghanistan: Leaving To Stay

By Maxim MINAEV (Russia)

One of the most high-profile events in the international politics in June was the announcement by the US president Barack Obama on the withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan. Meeting his election pledges, Obama initiated the conclusion of the military operation by the United States and their allies on Afghan territory that had lasted [...]

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Failure of the Nation-States in Islamic World

By Sergey ISRAPILOV (Russia)

We are publishing exclusive translation of an article by Sergey Israpilov, a Russian expert based in Dagestan (North Caucasus), on the threatening sociopolitical trends in Islamic world. Originally issued in Russian almost a year ago, the article has acquired new reading and complimentary grounds after the 2010-2011 North Africa and Middle East protests. Globalization is [...]

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The War on Terror Is Over?

We have already noted at the mayhem of 2011 Middle East-North Africa protests that Muammar Gaddafi fighting pro-Al-Qaeda Islamists is now replacing Ben Laden as incarnation of ‘absolute Evil’ in mainstream media. On May 1, 2011 we got a logical consequence of this political trend: President Obama has declared Osama dead. Just imagine how the [...]

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