Just entered 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a focus on China and Iran’s new military strategy. Then announced that the U.S. side of the provocation and the Philippines in the South China Sea, China’s exercises, while three aircraft carriers cruising the Persian Gulf; EU has also announced the oil embargo against Iran. United States […]
Материалы: February, 2012
David C. Gompert and Michael Kofman – Raising Our Sights: Russian-American Strategic Restraint in an Age of Vulnerability
21/02/2012The United States and Russia have sought to reduce the danger of nuclear war by limiting offensive strategic capabilities through negotiated agreements, relying on mutual deterrence based on reciprocal threats and the corresponding fear of retaliation. Although nuclear arsenals have been pared, this is fundamentally the same way the United States and Soviet Union sought […]
Update The Software of the Russian Soul?
19/02/2012Open Democracy 14 October 2010 Andrei Konchalovsky, Government attempts to moderniseRussiaare doomed because the Russian mindset remains stuck in an unchanging peasant mentality, laments film-director Andrei Konchalovsky. No change will be possible without reloading our spiritual software, but do we want to change? About the author Andrei Konchalovsky is theatre, film director and scriptwriter. His films […]
Andreas Umland – How to Make Russia Democratic?
14/02/2012Foreign Policy Journal Without a broad coalition, effective pragmatism and collaboration with liberals in the ancien regime, the “White Revolution” will end as miserably as earlier Russian democratization attempts by Andreas Umland February 7, 2012 Russia’s relationship to democracy has been historically closer than some people, both in and outside ofRussia, assume. As early as […]
Alexandr Pyatkov – Features and Padoxes of the Current Stage of the Russian Electoral Process
14/02/2012A. Pjatkov, Doctor of History, professor of Far Eastern branch of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Service at the President of the Russian Federation, the department of State and Municipal Construction. We are at the last electoral cycle, when parliamentary elections directly flow […]
Andreas Umland – How to Make Russia Democratic?
8/02/2012Without a broad coalition, effective pragmatism and collaboration with liberals in the ancien regime, the “White Revolution” will end as miserably as earlier Russian democratization attempts. Russia’s relationship to democracy has been historically closer than some people, both in and outside ofRussia, assume. As early as December of 1825, Tsarist Russia experienced an abortive palace […]
Russian Aid to Pacific Must be Open: Rudd
6/02/2012Adam Gartrell, AAP Diplomatic Correspondent Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has stressed to his Russian counterpart the need to be transparent with the development assistance it gives to Pacific island nations, amid ongoing concernsMoscowis using aid to buy diplomatic support in the region. Mr Rudd met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov inSydneyon Tuesday. With Mr Lavrov […]
Fiji Visit to Expand Russian Diplomacy Into Pacific
6/02/2012
Updated January 30, 2012 10:29:27 Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, makes his first visit to Fiji this week… he arrives on Wednesday. Fiji’s Foreign Affairs Minister says the visit is an example of “Fiji’s work to diversify its global relationships and strengthen” its “economy”. But others fear its part of Russia’s plan to increase its […]
Cuddly Russians Want More Than Just Trade
6/02/2012JockAnderson| Monday January 30, 2012 Russiatoday squeezesNew Zealandcloser to being a pivotal pawn in Moscow’s foreign policy strategy for the Asia-Pacific region. Today’s “consultations plan” signed with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov formalises bilateral cooperation for another two years, a positive step towards improved relations and trade development between both countries. Most recent ministry of […]
Australia Lashes Russia Over Aid
6/02/2012Daniel Flitton AUSTRALIAhas delivered a broadside toRussiaover ”cheque-book diplomacy” in the South Pacific, accusingMoscowof using foreign aid to buy support for puppet states on the other side of the world. Australiahas lodged a formal complaint with the superpower over a push to have tiny Pacific island countries accept the independence of the disputed territories South […]
Опубликовано в Australia, November-December 2011, Press Review, The South Pacific 
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