On Tuesday the Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin was interviewed by the CNN host Christiane Amanpour on the Syrian and Iranian issues. The full text of the interview was published on the web-site of the Russian mission to the UN. Surprisingly, several key Q&As were merely cut […]
Month: November 2013
The humanitarian tragedy of Syrian Christians: a challenge to the whole civilized world
We are publishing the remarks by Metropolitan Hilarion at the Colloquium on Serious Crisis in Syria, Vaduz, Lichtenstein, November 17, 2013. “We have gathered together today to discuss the most terrible humanitarian disaster of the last decades – the tragedy of the Syrian people. What is happening there today is […]
Future of Internet after the Snowden affair
Edward Snowden’s recent revelations about American intelligence agencies’ wiretapping of European leaders, as well as their collection of the personal data of European citizens, will apparently have far-reaching implications which go far beyond a simple diplomatic scandal. This was demonstrated by the EU summit which was held October 24-25, 2013. […]
The role of the BBC in the Syrian conflict
ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes a transcript of outstanding 12-minutes long video describing the evidence of falsification technics used by the BBC correspondents while reporting on Syria on the eve of historical voting in British parliament on August 29, 2013. This is how the BBC website introduces a report by its BBC Panorama’s Syria […]
“Christian world is facing challenges of militant secularism and radical Islamism”
ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes an abstract from the address of Metropolitan Hilarion to the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches taken place in Busan (South Korea) last week. No other presentation has provoked such agitation and excitement, delight and indignation in the hall. The matter is that His Grace […]
Suffering in Sadad: Bodies of family discovered in a well
Horrific details are emerging of atrocities carried out in a Christian town in Syria, where 1,500 families were held hostage and 45 were killed, including two teenage boys, their mother and three of their grandparents who were thrown down a well. Inhabitants of Sadad, near Homs, who fled the largely […]
How Foreign Office dares to judge Libya and Iraq on human rights
The remarkable aspiration of the British Foreign Office to only accuse the administrations of Libya and Iraq for the current state of events there, concealing their initial cause, consisting in initiation by the West and Great Britain in the first place of the recent military intervention in these states in breaking the international […]
Nobel Peace Laureate: “Mother Agnes is bringing to America the story of Syria”
Open Letter to the American people from Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate My dear friends, As a teenager living in Belfast, I admired the American Peace Movement and many prominent figures within it. Fifty years later, two of the most inspiring people still remembered across the world are Americans: Martin […]
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