Nil NIKANDROV (Russia) Brazil is central to the Kremlin’s politics of increasing assertiveness in Latin America. From this standpoint Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who plans to visit Moscow on May 13-14 — a pragmatic and predictable leader remaining a patriot of his own country despite the onslaught […]
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Giulietto Chiesa: “Today I see a very strong Russia that will not retreat”
This interview with Giulietto Chiesa, Member of the European Parliament, political analyst and journalist, took place shortly after the August 2008 war in South Ossetia. Nevertheless, it is still relevant, and we are publishing it for the first time in English with minor cuts. – What role can the European […]
The “Evil Guys List”? “Free Journalism” in the Service of US Foreign Policy
F. William Engdahl (Germany) An organization calling itself Reporters Without Borders (RWB; French: Reporters sans frontières, or RSF) has just named Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, China’s President Hu Jintao, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko to their list of Forty Worst Predators of Press […]
Russia and its ‘Allies’ at the End of WWII
Tomorrow the battalions of allied forces from the USA, France and Great Britain will march down the Red Square together with the Russian regiments. For the first time in history they will take part in the traditional military parade to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism. […]
Remembering the Great Victory
This May marks the 65th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. The memory of the war, referred to as the Great Patriotic War, is particularly venerated in Russia. 1941-1945: Four years of hardship In the USSR, the end of the war was considered to be May 9, 1945, as […]
BRICs Keen to Strengthen the Economic Framework of the Multipolar World
Manish CHAND (India) The second BRIC summit ended in Brasilia with a clarion call for “a new International order” to accommodate the aspirations of rising powers in International decision-making structures. The leaders of the four top emerging economies, whose share in global economic development has exceeded 50 pc, in Russian […]
Pirate-Captured Tanker Freed by Russian Navy
The crew of a large Russian anti-submarine ship has freed an oil tanker seized by Somali pirates on Wednesday. All 23 Russian sailors from the hijacked vessel have escaped the incident unscathed. As a result of the rescue efforts, 10 pirates have been captured and one killed. “The large submarine-hunter […]
Putin Blamed for ‘Pumping-up National Pride’
On May 3, the World Press Freedom Day, the international human rights organization ‘Reporters without Borders’ has compiled a list of 40 ‘predators of press freedom’. Along with unnamed Colombian guerrillas, Mexican narcocartels, ETA separatists, Italian Mafiosos, and a galaxy of traditional ‘villains’ from Mullah Muhammad Omar to Zimbabwean Robert […]
World War II Was Unleashed by Adepts of Drang nach Osten
Leonid IVASHOV (Russia) The information war over the history of World War II is at full swing, hence it makes sense to re-examine the covert schemes which the West and the shadowy organizations promoting the interests of its capital used to unleash it. Quite obviously, expansion to the east and […]
The Russians Are Responsible For Everything
Roman Nosikov (Russia) “Is it good that we’re Russians?” asks my four-year-old daughter while I’ve got my nose buried in a news site. “It’s a lot of fun being a Russian,” I answer while I’m nervously scrolling down the page. A headline catches my eye: “Russia to Blame for the […]
How the U.S. resembles the U.S.S.R.
George Feifer (USA) When I was young, the world’s great problem was all black and white because little in history had been less ambiguous than the Cold War that consumed my wonderfully righteous country. Good vs. bad, honesty and decency vs. deceit and immorality, the Land of the Free vs. […]
BRIC Countries Are Heavily Dependent On the US Dollar System
The most interesting outcome of the last BRIC Summit was the agreement to boost cooperation on the use of local currencies in trade transactions. The agreement between banks in Russia, India, China and Brazil that service import-export operations is intended to measure trade directly in national currencies. This is an […]
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