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Russia can't realistically hope to achieve geostrategic stability unless it manages to entrain Ukraine. As a result, the task of precluding synergies between the two countries occupies a significant line on the US and EU foreign-policy agendas. Russian premier Vladimir Putin's opinion piece published in Izvestia in 2011 - "A new integration project for Eurasia: The future in the making" – where he puts forward a case for building a Eurasian union in the post-Soviet space, simply had to come under fire in the West...
Yuri ANDREEV | 19.01.2012 |
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US National Security Senior Director of Russian and Eurasian Affairs until recently, Michael McFaul, a 48 year old Stanford University professor, was appointed US ambassador to Russia at the end of last year. He’s widely known as someone who initiated the “reset” Russian policy but not only. A long time Russia scholar, he has written about 20 books and many articles about Russian internal politics. At he same time, the newly fledged ambassador has rich experience in organizing color revolution in the post Soviet space...
John LEWIS | 08.01.2012 |
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Brussels attempted to “punish” Belarus for alleged human rights abuses by declining to invite A. Lukashenko to the Warsaw seminar of the Eastern Partnership. In response, Minsk simply pulled out of the Eastern Partnership and even seems to be weighing the pros and contras of severing ties with the EU, which means that Lukashenko managed to deal Brussels' East European policies - and the EU as a whole - a serious blow... The developments around Ukraine similarly show that the Eastern Partnership is in deep crisis...
Dmitri TYMCHUK | 15.10.2011 |
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The meeting in late September of the member states of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) project (initiated by Poland and Sweden and targeting six post-Soviet states – Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) showed that Warsaw is still interested in the Euro-Atlantic integration of these countries, especially of the first three ones... Actually, the EaP project is aimed at breaking long cultural and historical traditions which used to unite Russia and it’s the former Soviet republics. The aim is also to let the West expand its military presence in the region, an initiative also launched by Poland...
Vladislav GULEVICH | 07.10.2011 |
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For the US, Poland is a dependable partner whom Washington can entrust with serious geopolitical missions. The meeting of the Ukrainian and Polish leaders came under scrutiny in a publication by Stratfor, a private US intelligence company occasionally referred to as the shadow CIA... The view strongly held by STRATFOR analysts is that „Poland is searching for strategic depth” by upgrading the Polish-Ukrainian relationship, „the idea being that Kiev is the one playing the role of buffer to Russia”...
Vladislav GULEVICH | 18.09.2011 |
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This September, Poland will host the Eastern Partnership countries' summit. Considering that at the moment Warsaw holds the rotating EU presidency, the forum presents it with a serious opportunity to breath new life into the integration project for the six post-Soviet republics – Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia... Ukraine holds the greatest attraction for the proponents of the Eastern Partnership…
Vladislav GULEVICH | 13.09.2011 |
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The causes responsible for the global economic crisis are widely believed to be expressed in economic terms and related to factors like overproduction, inventories build-up, currency ratios, inflation, financial derivatives, swaps, etc. What evades the seemingly convincing approach, eventually rendering it inadequate, is that politics shapes the economic reality no less than isolated market trends…
Yuri GAVRILECHKO | 23.07.2011 |
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We state that the concept ascribing ‘mutual responsibility’ for unleashing the war to ‘the Nazi and Soviet regimes’ lacks any historical and moral foundations. As historians, we are aware that the responsibility for that devastating war rests fully with the Western powers. Until now the diplomatic archives in London keep guarding the secrets of the British-German talks held in June 1939 on the division of the world into Great Britain’s and Germany’s spheres of influence, aimed to deter Soviet Union from taking part in shaping the future of Europe...
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I feel sorry for Libyans. But similar fate also expects other nations, which have rich natural resources - oil, gas, ores, arable lands and fresh water. Though these resources were given to them by God “the new Crusaders” think that they don’t deserve these gifts. We should be ready that the Libyan scenario may repeat in other countries...
Alexander SAVCHENKO | 23.03.2011 |
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