3/06/2015
In the past, Russia was an empire, then a communist colossus, then a ‘defeated’ power expected to adopt Western ways. But current tensions with the West are fostering what may be the birth of a distinct Russian nationalism. Moscow — The snapping point came for Pavel Melikhov, he says, when he heard President Obama compare […]
5/05/2015
Peter Hartcher Julia Gillard began her last year as prime minister with a statement on national security declaring that “Australia enters a new era of national security imperatives”. Pronouncing the end of the 9/11 decade, she looked to the future: “It will be an era in which the behaviour of states, not non-state actors, will […]
Опубликовано в China, Policy, Press Review, Press Review, Press Review, Press Review, Russia, Unites States 
Комментариев нет » 5/05/2015
Nadège Rolland Russian state-run news agency Tass confirmed on April 22 that Kim Jong-un will be in Moscow for the May 9 Victory Day celebrations. The North Korean leader will be among 26 other heads of state that have so far confirmed their attendance. This visit will mark Kim’s first official foreign trip since he took over the […]
Опубликовано в Korea, North Korea, Policy, Press Review, Press Review, Press Review, Russia Комментариев нет » 5/05/2015
Lloyd Axworthy Lloyd Axworthy was minister of foreign affairs from 1996 to 2000, when the Arctic Council was established. Canada will send a “tough message” to Russia about its “aggression against Ukraine” at the Arctic Council, which meets beginning Friday in Iqaluit. So said Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment and Chair of the Council, […]
Опубликовано в Policy, Press Review, Press Review, Press Review, Russia, Unites States Комментариев нет » 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 Комментариев нет » 5/05/2015
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 […]