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...The litmus test for support for Israel has kept out of the UN Western Sahara, Somaliland, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia. Among the pro-Israeli bloc’s first actions was repealing the UN Zionism is racism resolution in 1991. Except for last year’s Palestine state observer resolution, this bloc has largely served the interests of Israel and the United States, culminating this past March with klezmer music blaring throughout the General Assembly hall.
Wayne MADSEN | 19.06.2013 |
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...Unlike in Libya where Obama led from the rear, in Syria’s case he is upfront in this case and may even have outstripped his allies for the time being. Obama can be trusted to use the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland to bridge the gap between the US and its allies so that the western alliance system can be brought into the picture to force the regime change in Syria. Russia faces an uphill task to bring about a diplomatic breakthrough at the G8 summit...
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR | 18.06.2013 |
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...The situation regarding the outgoing Georgian president at the moment is, at the very least, unenviable. However, this far from means that Georgia’s focus on export instability in Russia’s North Caucasus will not be in demand once again. Moreover, the traditional channels and mechanisms for such exports could be improved in view of both the positions that have already been won and new organisational, technological and psycho-emotional developments...
Vladimir IVANOV | 18.06.2013 |
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Many questions remain unanswered about the Boston Marathon Bombings that took place on April 15, 2013... The murder of Russia’s Muslim leaders in the North Caucasus coincides with notions that the United States is planning to destabilize Russia’s North Caucasus. After Syria, in fact, there are strong fears that Russia’s North Caucasus, along with Lebanon and Iraq, will be the next targets of anti-government militants in Syria...
Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA | 17.06.2013 |
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...In the context of the Arab Spring little attention has been devoted to a large and populous regional power. Algeria has remained largely unaffected by the Arab Spring having a history of civil war behind. The government tries to prevent challenges to domestic and regional stability. It supported the Gaddafi regime, opposed NATO intervention and never recognized the Libyan new transitional government. The leaders of Algeria were perspicacious enough to see the events in Libya would create instability in the Maghreb and the Sahel, the fears vindicated by subsequent events...
Andrei AKULOV | 17.06.2013 |
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Events in the Golan Heights have given the Syrian side cause to say that Qatar and Israel are collaborating with the rebels... А strong terrorist foothold behind which Israel is hiding de facto already exists in the buffer zone. Israel's collaboration with terrorists is becoming clearer and clearer. Besides their activity in the buffer zone, they play the role of special forces which conduct reconnaissance and prepare the way for air strikes... The Israeli air strikes against military sites near the Syrian capital in May were well synchronized with the activities of FSA fighters and Islamist terrorist groups... Russian peacekeepers are undesirable in the «Golan poker» the West is playing together with Israel...
Dmitriy SEDOV | 16.06.2013 |
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The peacekeeping story is a proof Russia plays by the rules. The country has no reputation of international law abuser and can be trusted... What is important - Russia has good relations with Israel, Syria and a moderate part of Syrian opposition, which has visited Moscow to hold talks with Russian leadership. With all contributors having withdrawn or on the verge of taking a similar decision, Russian peacekeepers appear be the only hope for peace in the Golan Heights area.
Andrei AKULOV | 15.06.2013 |
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The Syrian army is successfully expanding its most important operation since the beginning of the civil war, launched on June 9 of this year. This operation, «Northern Storm», is aimed at liberating the opposition’s main stronghold – the city of Aleppo, the country's largest city and most important economic center, located near the Turkish border – from rebel forces... Decisions of the country's leader and the Syrian army command are astounding in their forethought and even their strategic elegance... The army is occupying key points, cutting off the opposition's most important lines of communication and supply routes, and then unerringly determining the direction for the main strike. And the political leadership is just as ably ensuring the aid of allies and protection of the army's flanks... A radically new element in the developments in Syria which further worsens the rebels' situation is the active involvement of Baghdad in the conflict... Tel Aviv is also experiencing growing difficulties in connection with its involvement in the Syrian conflict...
Dmitry MININ | 14.06.2013 |
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The two-day international «EU-Russia Energy Dialogue» conference which took place May 29-30, the eighth such conference so far, was once again unable to overcome the stalemate between Moscow and Brussels in the field of energy. The leadership of the European Union still insists that Russia accede to the so-called «Third Energy Package»... In essence, this is a demand that Moscow agree to delegate part of its financial and economic powers in the energy field to Brussels, without having the possibility to influence the European Union's decision making...
Pyotr ISKENDEROV | 14.06.2013 |
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Until the late 1990s, Africa was a terror-free zone. Terror raged in various places throughout the world, but the African continent was unfamiliar with this phenomenon. The situation changed in 1998 after large-scale simultaneous terrorist attacks in Kenya and Tanzania, when the U.S. embassies in both Nairobi and Dar es Salaam were attacked... Today Africa has become the main arena for international terrorism. Currently, dozens of large international terrorist organizations are active there... The beginning of 2013 was marked by an increase in the activity of terrorist groups in Africa. Recent weeks have brought news of more and more new terrorist attacks...
Alexander MEZYAEV | 13.06.2013 |
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