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"Recently Delhi has been sending signals indicating that India is dissatisfied with the level and quality of its economic cooperation with Russia, particularly in the military-technical area. Should we conclude that India decided to turn entirely towards the West? I see no reason to think so. What we do see is Delhi's natural reaction to Russia's shortcomings in the process of interacting with its traditional partner..." 
News | 27.12.2007 |
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"The Ukrainian government's priorities declared by the country's new PM made commentators wonder whether the traditional New Year gas war should be expected... Yulia Timoschenko can continue to charge Viktor Yanukovich and his party with betraying Ukraine's national interests, but the future will show how exactly she and the government she leads are going to reduce the gas prices without jeopardizing the country's relations first with Russia, and then – via the chain of interests - with Europe..."
News | 26.12.2007 |
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"Nowadays, fuel issues have more to do with politics than with the economy. The tendency manifested itself in the ceremony of phasing in the South Russkoe gas field, which took place in Gazprom's main office on December 18, 2007, and in the political context of the event. Though the gas field is located in West Siberia, some 3,500 km from Moscow, the Russian capital was chosen as the location for the official launch of the project's operation..."
News | 22.12.2007 |
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"...the National Assembly of the Georgian Azerbaijani is an organisation enjoying Turkey’s support and aiming to obtain efficient leverage of rendering its influence in Georgia, complete with annexing it in the long run. Turkey’s principal factor of affecting political processes in Georgia is the sizeable Azeri community in Kvemo-Kartli (Borchali)."
News | 19.12.2007 |
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"... Prominent figures of the expert community at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published a report titled “Alternative Futures for Russia to 2017”. One of its authors, Andrew Kuchins predicts (within the framework of an “alternative futures”) that president Vladimir Putin will be murdered January 7, 2008 at the steps of Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral after a midnight mass (?!)..."
News | 16.12.2007 |
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"Iran decided to refuse using the U.S. currency as an instrument of settling accounts for its export of oil... It is clear that the transfer to the euro (rouble, dinar or renminbi) account settlement is going to take quite some time. However, the Iranian demarche, especially if other states follow its footsteps (which is quite possible), can seriously shake the omnipotence of the dollar in the global trade..."
News | 13.12.2007 |
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"Hillary Clinton, the wife of the former US President Bill Clinton and a 2008 presidential race favorite recently unveiled her international politics agenda in a paper in Foreign Affairs... The publication provides a fairly critical account of a number of aspects of G. Bush's presidency. A wind of change in the US foreign politics? Hardly so. The analysis... shows that no radical changes in Washington's global strategy can be expected in the foreseeable future..."
News | 07.12.2007 |
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"The military or the military in retirement stood at the helm of the state of Pakistan for the greater part of its 60-years history. The Pakistani army is one of the principal components of the development of its society. It can stand idle watching the happening, but it detonates according to its own patterns..."
News | 05.12.2007 |
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"What is there behind the November 2007 task force operation on Ai-Petri Mount to liquidate the consequences of land-grabbing by Crimean Tartars? Would the Majlis proclaim at the November 7, 2007 Kurultai (parliamentary session) the mobilisation of the Crimean Tartars, whose leaders represent the pro-presidential bloc “Our Ukraine- People’s Self-Defence” (OUPSD)? What will the situation caused by illegal seizure of land in the Crimea be in the near future?.."
News | 01.12.2007 |
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"Even if one prefers to ignore the experts’ forebodings that a new gas war in the CIS is coming, it must be admitted that the situation spans far beyond the confines of local pricing conflicts. Given the continuous growth of the gas prices, the CIS countries face the difficult but inevitable task of finding the modes of unification in the gas (and possibly, the energy) space..."
News | 28.11.2007 |
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