8/04/2014
Andrey Avramenko March 9, 2014 letter from Kharkov, Ukraine Almost for 23 years, our country is independent and free. We are not slaves, we are not mobs or middlebrow, we almost Europeans. Isn’t it the best thing that could happen to us. We got rid of all fetters, which only you can throw. We got […]
29/03/2014
India’s support for Russia during the Crimea crisis should be a wake-up call for Washington. By Andrew J. Stravers and Peter Harris In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s incursion into Crimea, almost every member of the international community voiced concern over Russia’s actions. While the U.S. and European Union were the most forceful in their criticism, […]
26/03/2014
Abdallah Schleifer I never thought the day would come when I would have to turn to Russian media to get a sense of what was going on somewhere in the world. But just for a start, look at the videos on Youtube from Russia Today, the 24/7 Russian English language news channel. Videos of scenes […]
26/03/2014
THE contours of the Crimean crisis are becoming clearer with all the huffing and puffing from the West and Russia’s effort to soften western reprisals while strengthening its grip on the peninsula. At the heart of the crisis is the western overreach in seeking to bottle Moscow geopolitically by taking its only remaining buffer state […]
26/03/2014
China played no role in the Ukraine crisis until the situation spiraled into an overt geopolitical face-off between Russia and the West. Due to China’s status as a major geopolitical power in Eurasia and a permanent member of UN Security Council, its support weighs heavily in the state of play and amassment of morale for […]
26/03/2014
The United States and Russia are at odds over a host of issues, from Ukraine to Syria to Edward Snowden, prompting talks of a new Cold War. Their next confrontation could take place on the coldest place on earth. Last week, a Russian military official told Russian media that the Kremlin was forming a new […]
26/03/2014
Pierre Marthinus Opinion News Does the argument that “a choice isn’t a choice when made with a gun to your head” really stand? Unfortunately not. The Indonesian revolutionary rallying call was “merdeka atau mati” — the equivalent of Patrick Henry’s “give me liberty or give me death”. In the early years of the Indonesian revolution, […]
13/03/2014
Marjorie Romeyn-Sanabria As coverage of the standoff between Russia and Ukraine continues and debate over America’s role in the conflict rages on, two crucial players have stepped forward to offer support to Russia: China and India. While no assumptions can be made about China’s diplomacy with Russia, it is not beyond the realm of possibility […]
13/03/2014
Despite its principle of non-interference, domestic and international interests have Beijing siding with Moscow. Chinese media has covered the evolving situation in Ukraine with interest, in part because China has a vested interest in Ukraine’s fate. Now, the world is returning the scrutiny. In the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to send troops […]
13/03/2014
Kanwal Sibal The new ‘Cold War’ is heating up Developments in Ukraine are part of the after-shocks from the seismic collapse of the Soviet Union. The incorporation of the Baltic states into the European Union (EU) and Nato, not to mention the former east European countries, was the first geopolitical after-shock, followed by the break-up […]
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