Tag Archive | "Crimea"
What Nikki Haley should know about annexed Crimea
By Arina TSUKANOVA (Russia)
The speech by the new US permanent representative to the UN Security Council, Nikki Haley, at a Security Council meeting on 3 February backed up the idea that the new administration policy on Crimea will be followed up. Haley said exactly the same nonsense as Samantha Power before her: «Our Crimea-related sanctions will remain in […]
Continue reading...Islamic Scholar on Syria, Crimea and the End of Times
By Sheikh IMRAN HOSEIN (Malaysia)
Saturday, December 5, 2015
This interview by the famous Islamic scholar Sheikh Imran Hosein to a Serbian portal was given a few days after Russian Air-Space Forces launched the counter-terrorist campaign in Syria. Sheikh Imran, who currently lives in Malaysia, is the prominent preacher of peaceful and harmonic co-existance of the Christians & Muslims and an ardient critic of […]
Continue reading...The Crimea – happy campers… or “kingdom of terror” prisoners?
By Stephen EBERT (USA)
Friday, September 18, 2015
Observations from an average American’s “flash inspection” of the Crimea Recent Western-conducted public opinion polls and observations from a French fact-finding delegation clearly contradict official US representations of the Crimea as a “kingdom of terror”. I am no mere casual observer – I speak Russian fluently, and with over 3 decades of involvement, have a […]
Continue reading...Revisiting The Russia & G7 Divorce: How Moscow Came Out On Top
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
The G7 made the politically charged decision to suspend Russia’s membership following the country’s reunification with Crimea at the end of March 2014. At the time, many media outlets treated this news as being bound to have some sort of sensational consequence for Russia, but they were only partly right. It definitely was a consequential […]
Continue reading...Erdogan’s ‘Erratic’ Behavior Explained
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Turkey has been acting pretty erratic these past couple of weeks, launching a surprise dual offensive in Syria and Iraq, condemning Russia for alleged ‘oppression’ against the Crimean Tatars, and suspending the Balkan Stream pipeline negotiations. All of this is somewhat unexpected – after all, Turkey had thus far refrained from the US’ pleas to […]
Continue reading...NATO’s Black Sea bloc gets busy (I)
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
Thursday, June 4, 2015
The shaky truce in Ukraine has given NATO ample opportunities to spread the New Cold War beyond Eastern Europe and into new theaters, one of which has been the greater Black Sea region. The recent destabilizations in Macedonia and Moldova that endanger Russian interests there can be directly linked to the long-term ambitions of Bulgaria […]
Continue reading...A (not so) brief history of Crimea
By Peter HITCHEN (UK)
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
All right, I admit it, it’s not that brief. I didn’t have time to shorten it. But what follows is a condensed history of the argument about who should control Crimea, one which still rages and which (as usual) is not as simple as politicians like to claim it is. I’ll begin with a question. […]
Continue reading...German sociologists on Crimea’s choice
By Konstantin KOSARETSKY (Ukraine)
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
A few days ago an interesting study, “The Socio-Political Sentiments in Crimea,” was released by the Ukrainian branch of GfK, the well-known German social research organization, as part of the Free Crimea initiative. Intriguingly, the primary objectives of this project, launched with the support of the governmental Canada Fund for Local Initiatives, were to “debunk […]
Continue reading...Countering the NATO propaganda on Russia (V)
By Vladimir KOZIN (Russia)
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV A follow-up of Professor Vladimir Kozin’s comments on NATO’s Fact Sheet about relations with Russia published in December 2014. The topics to be covered in this part: NATO enlargement followed the same process as the expansion of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact; NATO tried to “drag” […]
Continue reading...“Enigmatic Russia” And Its Detractors
By Michael AVERKO (USA)
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Periodically, some have engaged in what can be best described as “PoliSport”. (Years ago, I recall New York metropolitan area radio talk show host Steve Malzberg, using this term.) Such a route can prove to be faulty. This is especially true when some preferred Western mass media types do this against Russia. These instances can say more about the given commentator […]
Continue reading...Brisbane – A show of Western weakness
By Jan OBERG (Sweden)
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
No matter what you may think of Putin and Russia this is simply not the way international politics should be conducted, particularly not at the personal level. If it wasn’t an offence to children, one would aptly characterize it as childish behavior. Western leaders ignored a brilliant opportunity to meet face-to-face with Vladimir Putin and […]
Continue reading...Russia-West Relations: A Basis for Cautious Optimism
By Michael AVERKO (USA)
Thursday, October 23, 2014
The author was a participant in the online October 16 US-Russia.org panel discussion “Thinking the Unthinkable: What Comes Next In the New Cold War?” What follows is a longer version of his contribution to that forum. With the US mass media and body politic especially in mind, it’s no small wonder why there’s a considerable existence of […]
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