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The probability is rather high the geopolitical battles around the North Stream will intensify in the near future. The USA acts as the leading instigator. One can expect the Scandinavian and Baltic states, as well as Poland to renew the previous attacks against the project. It’s not excluded the project will join the agenda of the impending top-level meetings: the G8 summit on May 18-19 in the US President’s Camp David country retreat and the NATO summit on May 20-21 in Chicago...
Pyotr ISKENDEROV | 15.05.2012 |
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While getting closer to parliamentary and, as has finally become known, presidential elections on May 6, the heat is on the rise in Serbia... The Kosovo media unveiled the fact that a personal meeting between Tadic and Taci is scheduled for June. It’ll cap the climax of “creeping” recognition of Kosovo as an independent state de facto if not de jure. The elections over it’ll be too late to lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen...
Pyotr ISKENDEROV | 08.04.2012 |
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The 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina stands out as exceptionally ferocious even in the grisly context of Yugoslavia's collapse... These days, the West increasingly puts to work in the world's strategic regions the humanitarian intervention scenarios and subversion techniques tested in the Balkans in the 1990ies... Speaking of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it obviously stays ethnically divided and scarred by the bloody past conflict even two decades since rolling out its independence...
Pyotr ISKENDEROV | 04.03.2012 |
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The debates over Serbia's bid for the status of a EU candidate, which are due to open in Brussels in March, will likely provoke a new round of destabilization in the Serbian districts of the province. The February 14-15 referendum in four Serbian communities in northern Kosovo confirmed the obvious: their populations continue to overwhelmingly reject the Albanian ethnic rule... One gets a distinct impression that the Kosovo Serbs are in the process of switching to a completely independent role in the Balkan politics, challenging Pristina, Brussels or, if necessary, Belgrade...
Pyotr ISKENDEROV | 25.02.2012 |
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Russia insists that the investigation on the involvement of Kosovo leaders in illegal trade with human organs should be controlled of the UN Security Council. Russia’s permanent envoy in the UN Vitaly Churkin made such a statement at a meeting of the Security Council. According to him, the facts point directly at the involvement of Kosovo’s current leaders in those crimes. But the investigation is led by the governments of the countries which earlier helped those people to come to power. Churkin stressed that Americans are playing the main role there...
Pyotr ISKENDEROV | 12.02.2012 |
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This week, French leader Nicolas Sarkozy will likely sign into law the controversial bill making it a criminal offense to deny that genocide was committed by Ottoman Turks against Armenians during World War I...Debates over the legislation are raging with unwavering intensity even though at the moment Sarkozy's signature on it is in essence an accomplished fact.
Pyotr ISKENDEROV | 01.02.2012 |
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The EU debates over slapping an oil embargo on Iran and upping the pressure on Syria's Bashar Assad seem to have diverted the spotlight from the decision taken last week by the European Commission to open a visa liberalization dialog with the self-proclaimed republic of Kosovo in order «to eventually lift the visa obligation for citizens of Kosovo»...
Pyotr ISKENDEROV | 25.01.2012 |
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The year 2011 will be remembered as a period of unprecedented uncertainty in the his-tory of modern Europe. On the one hand, contrary to widespread apocalyptic expecta-tions, the EU did not crumble and the amplitude of the oscillations in the value of the relatively young European currency did stay within tolerable limits. On the other, it is clear that the integrated Europe's worst crash tests are still ahead and that the difficul-ties confronting the EU are a lot more systemic than circumstantial...
Pyotr ISKENDEROV | 04.01.2012 |
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The EU is currently confronted with a tough dilemma: it can either focus on restoring the financial health of Greece and its other problem-ridden countries or get drawn into the Middle Eastern geopolitical confrontations, quite possibly at the cost of the viability of Euro.
Pyotr ISKENDEROV | 15.12.2011 |
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The November 28 US-EU summit deserves to be called a milestone in the recent geopolitical history, considering that during the forum the US dictatorial handling of Europe was disguised so thinly for the first time since President Obama moved into the White House... The case reflected Washington's dual European strategy aimed at both undermining the unity within the EU and attracting individual EU countries into the orbit of the US policies...
Pyotr ISKENDEROV | 02.12.2011 |
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