On April 13 the prominent US research center STRATFOR published an analytical brief ‘Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Insurgence’. The main idea was spinning around the recent bloody riots in Kyrgyz’s capital Bishkek culminated with 84 dead, more than 1500 injured and the expulsion of the former President Bakiev and his […]
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Why Did The West Lose World War II?
A look at the events of 1939-45 from a millennial point of view. Many people in Russia believe that we live in an era where the West has won. The West surrounds us everywhere. It reigns in popular car models and clothing fashion labels, in photographs of pop idols and […]
The World Has Moved Towards a Future Free of Nuclear Weapons
Taking stock of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington Delegations from 47 countries, plus the United Nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency—the IAEA—and the European Union participated in the forum. Russia was represented by President Dmitry Medvedev. Discussions on all measures were closed, but we know that the heads of […]
Is BRIC Triggering “New Thinking”?
On the eve of BRIC Alliance Summit opening tomorrow in Brasil we are republishing a last-year article by the German observer Michael LIEBIG as an introduction for coming analysis… The BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India, and China – are no longer content with being invited to the G20 and […]
Secret Run-Up to World War II: the Responsibility of the West
The agenda of our editions is inevitably circulating around the theme of wars. Until now we were covering the current one in Afghanistan and emerging in Iran as the focuses of international attention. But as the 65th anniversary of the Victory over Nazism is approaching, the lessons of history start […]
Sergei Lavrov: Russia Will Never Support a Military Strike Against Iran
Oriental Review publishes an interview with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that was aired in Russia at the TV-Talk Show Postscriptum on March 27, 2010.
The World Should Not Allow the US to Unleash Third World War
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Blessed Light Has Been Deigned in Jerusalem on Saturday Again
Video: Russia Today The Blessed Light, also known as Holy Fire, most likely the only ‘scheduled’ annual miracle of the contemporary world, has been deigned again in Jerusalem yesterday, causing rejoicement and excitement among witnesses and hundreds of million Eastern Christians around the globe. It is believed that the marvelous […]
Don’t Blame Russia
Few days ago Moscow was shocked with another suicide bomber Metro attack. The global and Russian internal media were swift in accusing ‘Islamic rebels from the North Caucasus’ in perpetrating this action. For us, Russian independent analysts, the matter is not so clear.
The CIA’s Intervention in Afghanistan
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser in 1979 Sometimes it is useful to reread old digests. More then ten years ago former US President National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski frankly spoke to French Le Nouvel Observateur in 1998. According to him, the CIA’s intervention in Afghanistan […]
NATO Rejects Russia’s Demand to Destroy Afghan Poppy Fields
Trend (Azerbaijan) NATO and Russia clashed on Wednesday, March 24 over how to tackle the drug problem in Afghanistan, where Western nations have been fighting a Taliban-led insurgency for eight years. The country is the world’s largest producer of poppy seeds, a key ingredient in the manufacture of heroin. Russia […]
Russia and the Counterterrorist Operation in Afghanistan. Part III
Alexander Sotnichenko Part 1 Part 2 Russia and the EU: the search for common ground on Afghanistan On January 18, 2008, Russian Federal Drug Control Service Director Viktor Ivanov and European Parliament member Pino Arlacchi, author of the new EU strategy for Afghanistan, held a press conference at which the […]
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