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The bottom of the problem is that NATO was structured for that bipolar world which no longer exists... There is considerable unease about the USA as the unofficial senior member having a unilateralist government, dangerously claiming the right to exercise pre-emptive strikes and circumventing the UN... The Chicago summit has proven once again – NATO is an organization that has lost its purpose and is unable to find a raison d’etre in the contemporary world...
Andrei AKULOV | 22.05.2012 |
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...There are times when India needs to stand up and speak out that the US' regional policies -- toward the Middle East and Central Asia – seriously endanger India's long-term interests. To meekly behave, instead, like a poodle, as the Indian government has done on the Iran sanctions, may not even be the best opportunistic course available.
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR | 20.05.2012 |
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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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Based on past aggressive competitive commercial tactics employed by the alliance of American corporations, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and the Pentagon, aviation experts in Asia are wondering aloud whether the recent crash of the new Sukhoi Super Jet 100 in Indonesia was the result of high-stakes industrial sabotage engineered to protect Boeing’s lucrative commercial and military aviation market in Asia at the expense of a resurgent Russian aviation industry…
Wayne MADSEN | 12.05.2012 |
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The recent developments - from the seizure of Iraq and Afghanistan to the rape of Libya and the spill of the Arab Spring - leave no doubt that the world system periphery faces a new round of colonial conquests...NATO is an existing and successfully tested instrument of the new colonization...By all means, Iran's nuclear program is nothing more than a casus belli - even with no trace of interest in nuclear technologies, the country would still be in big trouble. Moscow should, in the meantime, keep in mind that it is destined to be the next target after Tehran...Russia will have to endure plenty of arm-twisting at the upcoming G8 forum in Camp David supposed to coerce it into giving up the support for Syria and Iran and the Eurasian initiatives, as well as to make Moscow subject its tactic nuclear weapons stockpile to deep cuts.
Viktor BURBAKI | 11.05.2012 |
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The US Council on Foreign Relations authoritatively projects that in the XXI century the rivalry over Arctic mineral riches will escalate into a new type of a Cold War, which promises to be a conflict profoundly different from the one that marked the XX century's bipolarity epoch. Indeed, it is impossible to overlook the fact that calls for the internationalization of Russia's Northern maritime route emerged as a recurrent foreign-policy theme both in the West and in the East since the dawn of the XXI century.
Nikolai MALISHEVSKI | 10.05.2012 |
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In 2011, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union which marked the start of Russia's Great Patriotic War, the country launched a fundamental academic project by publishing the first of the planned twelve volumes of the treatise titled The 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War...The new historical treatise will certainly provide an extremely important input at the time when a significant portion of the World War II debate is being shaped by an unprecedented tide of revisionism...Present-day revisionists hope to erase from people's minds the very concept of Russia's Great Patriotic War by redefining it narrowly as a war between the Soviets and the Nazi...Certain political factions in the post-Soviet republics - Ukraine, Moldova, the Baltic republics, Georgia, and Uzbekistan - are trying to banish from the collective memories of the respective nations any traces of their having been involved as members of the Soviet Union in the struggle against Nazi Germany.
Yuriy RUBTSOV | 08.05.2012 |
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«Today we’re partners, but not friends» - said Russian ambassador to Germany Vladimir Grinin meeting journalists from different countries in Berlin by the end of April. After many years of assurances that the both countries are strategic partners, the opinion mainly expressed by Russian politicians, one should welcome the more sober assessment of Russia-Germany relations. The Russian ambassador is right: no need to prevaricate and sugarcoat reality...
Natalia MEDEN | 05.05.2012 |
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A regular congress of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) will convene on May 16-20, and, for the first time in the organization's history, the event is going to be held in Russia. FUEN was founded in 1949, the same year as the Council of Europe, in the framework of an announced integrated human rights policy. Currently, FUEN boasts a membership comprising 86 ethnic minorities from 32 European and post-Soviet countries, extensively coordinates activities with EU parliamentarians, and works closely with the Project on Ethnic Relations which is patronized by the US Department of State...
Olga CHETVERIKOVA | 04.05.2012 |
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According to NATO’s plans, which are to be discussed at the summit in Chicago in May, the countries of the former USSR, which surround Russia, must play the role of an “anaconda ring” pressing Russia...The essence of the North-Atlantic alliance as a military and political bloc has not changed since its establishment in 1949. NATO has not changed its goals regarding historical Russia which were set back in the beginning of the Cold War. These are only means of achieving these goals which are changing.
Vladislav GULEVICH | 26.04.2012 |
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