The First Conference on ”World Against Violence and Extremism” is inaugurated here in Tehran this morning by President Rouhani. His idea was endorsed unanimously by the UN General Assembly last year. This PressInfo was written before I came to Iran. The last round of negotiations between Iran and the Five […]
Month: December 2014
The US Congress: only Ten Little Indians left?
While politicians, political analysts, and the media hold lengthy debates about the potential onset of a new Cold War, the US Congress is already preparing the public for the possibility of a hot one. That country has been no stranger to anti-Russian rhetoric these past few years, but that previously […]
Russia, Turkey pivot across Eurasia
The latest, spectacular “Exit South Stream, Enter Turk Stream” Pipelinistan gambit will be sending big geopolitical shockwaves all across Eurasia for quite some time. This is what the New Great Game in Eurasia is all about. In a nutshell, a few years ago Russia devised North Stream – fully operational […]
Will Russia, Germany save Europe from war?
Are the United States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Russia on a mad spiral leading to yet another war in Europe? Is it inevitable? Far from it. The US-propelled vassal currently starring in the oligarch dance in Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, last week advanced the proposition that Ukrainians in the […]
The Importance Of The Cancellation Of South Stream
The reaction to the cancellation of the South Stream project has been a wonder to behold and needs to be explained very carefully. In order to understand what has happened it is first necessary to go back to the way Russian-European relations were developing in the 1990s. Briefly, at that […]
Putin has chosen the Middle East over Europe
South Stream has turned into “Turk Stream.” Moscow has decided not to sidestep Ukraine and supply gas to the whining American satellites from Southern Europe, but will instead turn its attentions to its project in Turkey. It’s no terrible fate to get the chance to provide fuel to a rapidly […]
A Eurasian gas bombshell
At the Dec. 1 joint press conference held by the leaders of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia was abandoning its ambitious South Stream project that would have significantly increased the supply of gas to Europe, sidestepping Ukraine. The expanded gas exports will now travel south – through […]
Cold Turkey: Ankara Buckles Against Western Pressure, Turns to Russia
Russia has abandoned the troubled South Stream project and will now be building its replacement with Turkey. This monumental decision signals that Ankara has made its choice to reject Euro-Atlanticsm and embrace Eurasian integration. In what may possibly be the biggest move towards multipolarity thus far, the ultimate Eurasian pivot, Turkey, […]
Russia – West Confrontation: Ways Out
Washington appears to be in the driver’s seat in the Ukrainian conflict. That is clear not only from the rude comments by Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland in the month before the overthrow of Yanukovich but also from the various initiatives that Washington continues to generate, including the most […]
Otto von Bismarck’s Epistle to Angela Merkel
… Angela, you know, I have always been against ladies’ presence in public affairs and I have not changed my viewpoint so far. I was doubly lucky in my life. Firstly, I used to live in the days when ladies were absolutely not allowed to German’s politics. Secondly, I was […]
U.S. Must Take Lead, Change Policies to End Crisis
The real solution to the extremely dangerous global confrontation looming between Russia and the West must come from Washington. But the prospects for this happening in the foreseeable future are negligible. Major European nations are much more susceptible to suffer unanticipated blowback from the economic sanctions imposed by the United […]
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