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Envoy killed in a ‘parallel universe’
By ORIENTAL REVIEW
The Russian ambassador was killed in Ankara on the evening of Dec. 19 . The killer, a 22-year-old Turkish graduate of the police academy who had been fired in July after being deemed untrustworthy, fired 11 bullets into the ambassador’s back as he finished addressing the attendees at the opening of the Russia Through Turkish […]
Continue reading...War of the worlds: masks are ripped away in Syria
By ORIENTAL REVIEW
13. October 2016
In recent weeks, the battle for Aleppo has exposed the true heart of contemporary global politics with vivid clarity. The US Air Force’s duplicitous Sept. 17 attack on Syrian army positions near Deir ez-Zor, the hysterical outcry against Russia that erupted from the Pentagon, the US State Department’s undisguised threats against the Russian contingent in […]
Continue reading...The Olympics as a tool of the new Cold War
By ORIENTAL REVIEW
21. July 2016
The 6th Fundamental Principle of Olympism (non-discrimination of any kind, including nationality and political opinion) seems to be forgotten long ago. In ancient Greece the competition of best athletes was able to halt a war and serve as a bridge of understanding between two recent foes. But in the twentieth century the Olympics have become […]
Continue reading...1945 Nazi crackdown: yes, we can re-show it!
By ORIENTAL REVIEW
9. May 2016
Five days before the celebration of the 71th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s capitulation to the Soviet and allied troops in the WWII, the new NATO Supreme Commander in Europe Curtis Scaparrotti announced that he came to beat the drums of war again. Ignoring the historic facts and legitimate Russian interests in its around, in his […]
Continue reading...Ukraine is turning into Liberia: “The love of liberty brought us here”
By ORIENTAL REVIEW
25. March 2016
Earlier this month while delivering a public lecture in Kiev, “The Challenges of an Ever-Changing World,” former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an inspiring remark for anyone who might have been thinking that life in Ukraine was bad: “You should go to Liberia where the standard of living is much lower, and then […]
Continue reading...Seventy years of harassing political establishment and people of Europe
By ORIENTAL REVIEW
4. February 2016
According to a “sensational” article by the Telegraph, the US director of National Intelligence was recently instructed by Congress to “conduct a major review into Russian clandestine funding of European parties over the last decade.” This disclosure – a classic “controlled leak” – is intended to warn disobedient yet popular political entities across Europe to […]
Continue reading...Time Is Running Out For Pax Americana’s Apologists
By Rostislav ISCHENKO (Ukraine)
11. November 2015
The paradox of the current global crisis is that for the last five years, all relatively responsible and independent nations have made tremendous efforts to save the United States from the financial, economic, military, and political disaster that looms ahead. And this is all despite Washington’s equally systematic moves to destabilize the world order, rightly […]
Continue reading...Putin’s Global Game Changer
BY ORIENTAL REVIEW
1. October 2015
Contrary to the expectations of many experts who were predicting a “second Munich” from Vladimir Putin in New York, the Russian president made no grandiose proclamations during his address to the UN General Assembly. In fact, he was outwardly far milder than one might have imagined. By comparison, Obama’s emotional speech, which was replete with […]
Continue reading...Reformatting Ukraine is on the agenda
By Vitaly LEYBIN (Russia)
3. June 2015
Latest horrible ceasefire violations in Donbass by the Kiev’s regime are likely intended to demonstrate the “inefficiency” of the OSCE mission to its Western patrons and are evidence of Ukraine’s attempts to circumvent the jurisdiction of the Minsk truce co-brokered by Russia, Germany, and France. Indeed, Minsk-2 is very inconvenient for Poroshenko, because it documents […]
Continue reading...Arms to the sadists: US Congress urges Pres. Obama to provide Ukraine with more torture techniques
By ORIENTAL REVIEW
26. March 2015
On Monday March 23, the US House of Representatives adopted H. Res. 162 urging president Obama “to provide Ukraine with military assistance” in dire attempt to reignite conflict in the East of Ukraine, mainly frozen as a result of February 2015 Minsk agreements between Kiev and the outbreak Donetsk and Lugansk provinces with French, German […]
Continue reading...Ukrainegate: NATO weapons for truce
By ORIENTAL REVIEW
19. February 2015
Initially it seemed surprising that on the first day of the negotiations marathon in Minsk a bill to “provide lethal weapons to the Government of Ukraine in order to defend itself against Russian-backed rebel separatists in eastern Ukraine” would be introduced in the US Congress. However, it soon became clear that its sponsor, Sen. James […]
Continue reading...Who are the “Friends of Ukraine”?
By Andrey POLEVOY (Russia)
2. February 2015
On Jan. 11, 2015, the Ukrainian website “GordonUA” published a rousing article (in Russian) with the suggestive title of “The Best Friends. The Countries Offering Assistance to Ukraine in 2014.” Let’s read that document carefully. “The past year has turned out to be an extremely difficult one for Ukraine. After President Viktor Yanukovych fled the […]
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21. December 2016
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