ORIENTAL REVIEW on Political Trust and Human Deception So far the most tangible outcome of notorious ‘Reset’ of the US-Russian relations (or perezagruzka, another Russian word of the global outreach) announced by foreign ministers last year was the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START III). As a reminder it limits […]
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Deauville Summit Echo: Reaction of American and European media
Tatiana Tallerova (Russia) While European heavyweights consider the cooperation with Russia to be necessary and mutually beneficial, certain political circles of the USA and their Eastern-European friends still stick to the policy of informational pressure and opposition to the closer between two high rollers on the European arena. And the […]
The TAPI Pipeline Is Killing Nabucco
Stanislav Tarasov (Russia) Turkmenistan is attacking Europe’s energy monopoly Turkmen President G. Berdimuhamedov gave an interview to the national media on the eve of his departure for New York to participate in the 65th session of the UN General assembly. He talked about the need to more energetically involve Afghanistan […]
Russia and Nuclear Weapons
Dionis KAPTAR (Russia) The USSR tested its own atomic bomb on August 29, 1949. If we reject false humanism and look at the event without prejudice, we have to say that the Soviet Union’s acquisition of nuclear weapons played a key role in the history of mankind. At the time, […]
The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant and the New Countdown
Eldar KASAYEV (Russia) The Bushehr nuclear power plant—the first one in Iran and the entire Middle East—achieved criticality on August 21. A ceremony celebrating the event was attended by major Russian and Iranian officials, including Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko and Iranian Atomic Energy Organization head Ali Akbar Salehi. In fairness […]
Why Was Hitler’s Defeat a Defeat for the West?
Vladimir TIMAKOV(Russia) Conventional wisdom says that the traditional Western values are democracy, humanism, tolerance and human rights. Against that background, Hitler’s Third Reich looks like a strange mutation, an evolutionary deviation that could not have been predicted. Alexei Arbatov, a ideologue of pseudo-right Yabloko party, expresses surprise about that in […]
The Opium Problem in Afghanistan and Russia at the End of the 20th Century
Nikita Mendkovich (Russia) Najibullah’s Kabul regime fell in 1992. Its defeat was a logical outcome of the termination of Russia’s material and technical support as US funding of the mujahedeen continued virtually unchanged even after Soviet forces withdrew. Unfortunately a new regime could not bring stability to the country: the […]
Time to Gather Stones
Andrei VOLODIN (Russia) The deepening crisis in countries in Southern Europe (Greece, Portugal, Spain and, perhaps, Italy), the political stalemate in Britain requiring drastic decisions (the pressing need to revise the electoral system of the relative majority), the revival of destructive processes in post-Soviet space (the de facto collapse of […]
BRIC: Illusion or Reality
Andrei VOLODIN (Russia) Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria has distinguished “tectonic shifts” in the world’s economics and politics that divide the last 500 years into three unequal stages: (1) the rise of the West, which began in the 15th century and saw a “dramatic” acceleration at the end of the 18th century […]
The Harvard Project
Vladislav SHVED (Russia) The Cold War transformed former allies in the anti-Nazi coalition—the United States and the USSR—into enemies. The Americans assigned their intelligence services to carry out political and psychological operations in the Soviet Union. In March 1948 that effort resulted in a secret document entitled “Use of Refugees […]
NATO Finds Its New “Mission” In Missile Defense Shield For Europe
Sergey Borisov (Russia) The Western alliance may see Moscow as a partner in a missile defense program, but analysts warn that joining any European or transatlantic security systems may threaten Russia in the future. The alliance’s Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, discussed NATO’s reform, missile defense and Afghanistan with the […]
Does America consider Russia friend or foe? Antimissile system will show
Washington and NATO have recently declared the intention of enhancing their partnership with Russia, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating, the saying goes, not in the promises. The “reset” of relations between the United States and Russia increasingly resembles a backroom card game, where the players […]
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