5/05/2015
by JOYCE NELSON Cranking Up The Rhetoric In mid-April, hundreds of U.S. paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade arrived in western Ukraine to provide training for government troops. The UK had already started its troop-training mission there, sending 75 troops to Kiev in March. [1] On April 14, the Canadian government announced that Canada will […]
Опубликовано в Policy, Press Review, Press Review, Press Review, Russia, Unites States 
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Pressure grows from Congress to counter slick Russian media that erodes support for Nato Chris McGreal Russia’s sprawling propaganda network may have failed to persuade much of the world that Ukraine is run by Nazis, that Crimea was annexed in a popular uprising and/or that Germany is a failed state. But the barrage of misinformation […]
Опубликовано в Policy, Press Review, Press Review, Press Review, Russia, Unites States Комментариев нет » 13/04/2015
“Prices come down,” chanted rioters in Indonesia in May 1998. When the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stepped in to rescue Indonesia from near-bankruptcy, they demanded the following: privatization of state-owned enterprises, sharp cuts to government spending, and a tighter monetary policy. Unemployment worsened at the same time prices for essential goods such as fuel and […]
13/04/2015
Fasten your seatbelts; 2015 will be a whirlwind pitting China, Russia and Iran against what I have described as the Empire of Chaos. So yes – it will be all about further moves towards the integration of Eurasia as the US is progressively squeezed out of Eurasia. We will see a complex geostrategic interplay progressively undermining the hegemony of the US dollar as a reserve […]
1/04/2015
We all remember the events in the Crimea, which followed the coup Maidan in Kiev. Through the lies and misinformation Western media made the way the truth about the coup in the Ukrainian capital by US intelligence agencies, which clearly benefited from the fact that our appropriate structures were fully engaged in the security of […]
Опубликовано в Policy, Press Review, Press Review, Press Review, Russia, Unites States Комментариев нет » 1/04/2015
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the concept of empire entered Soviet and post-Soviet studies, as scholars attempted to place the end of the Soviet multinational state in an appropriate comparative framework. A variety of excellent books was the result, including edited volumes by Bruce Parrott and Karen Dawisha, Barnett Rubin and Jack Snyder, Richard Rudolph and […]
1/04/2015
Will Russia’s ambitious naval plans in the Pacific bear fruit this year? By Franz-Stefan Gady In the last two years, Russia’s second-biggest fleet, the Pacific Fleet, has been receiving new ships for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 2013 the fleet obtained a new Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN), and is expecting […]
1/04/2015
Just how likely are China and Russia to ally against the U.S.? By Huiyun Feng The rising tensions between Russia and the West, especially the United States, over Ukraine provide a constant reminder of the Cold War, when the two superpowers fought proxy conflicts for spheres of influence. A key question in the current game of […]
Опубликовано в China, Press Review, Press Review, Press Review, Russia, Unites States Комментариев нет » 1/04/2015
By Maria Snegovaya The Kremlin’s motivation in the Ukrainian conflict has split scholars. Is Russia a greedy state ideologically driven to expand or a declining insecure superpower defending itself against NATO? Realist scholars (for example, see these recent pieces by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt) argue that the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict was provoked by NATO expansion into Georgia […]
5/03/2015
Will Russia’s ambitious naval plans in the Pacific bear fruit this year? In the last two years, Russia’s second-biggest fleet, the Pacific Fleet, has been receiving new ships for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 2013 the fleet obtained a new Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN), and is expecting five […]