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Posted By: Ralitsa
Posted On: Mar 2, 2010
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One presidency after the Orange Revolution, Ukraine risks finding itself close to where it was just over 5 years ago.
Truth be told though, this time around it was by popular choice of the majority and within the democratic norms. Yulia Tymoshenko seems to be the only one to disagree at a time...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Dec 4, 2008
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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev) - Neither Ukraine nor Georgia received the Membership Action Plan (MAP) status at the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels. This was so clear that the issue was not even discussed.
In NATO, one vote is enough to reject a...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Nov 12, 2008
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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev) - The First World War ended exactly 90 years ago - in peace, as all wars do. That peace was the first attempt in history to establish a truly global control system which would not allow a repetition of a global war.
The aim of that...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Nov 10, 2008
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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - George Bush Jr. has managed to cultivate such a strong feeling against his White House in the world and has dented US reputation so badly that any change on Pennsylvania Avenue is like a breath of fresh air.
The new US...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Aug 27, 2008
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(Prof. Piotr Dutkiewicz for RIA Novosti) - Some critics have pointed to the conflict in Georgia as another example of botched Bush administration foreign policy, but in fact America's real strategy was brilliantly executed and it achieved exactly the intended outcome. Unfortunately it's not an...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Aug 20, 2008
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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political observer Andrei Fedyashin) - The emergency NATO Council session held in Brussels on August 19 at America's request to give Russia its "comeuppance" did not go smoothly. It took the ministers several hours to hammer out the final communique.
In the end it turned...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Aug 17, 2008
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Both South Ossetia and Abkhazia fought wars of independence with Georgia in the early 90s - and won de facto sovereignty. But the roots of the conflict between Georgia and its breakaway regions can be traced back much further.
Both breakaway republics are striving for a future that is...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Aug 16, 2008
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In the Soviet times South Ossetia was an autonomous area within Georgia. In 1991 Georgia's first president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, abolished the autonomy. The South Ossetian authorities rejected that decision and put up an armed resistance to the Georgians.
In January 1991 open warfare broke...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Aug 13, 2008
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Reflections of Fidel:
PERHAPS some governments are unaware of the concrete facts, and so for that reason Raúl’s message setting Cuba’s position seemed to us to be very timely. I shall be generous in the aspects that cannot be dealt with in a brief and precise official statement....... [view]
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Posted By: prcizmadia
Posted On: Nov 9, 2007
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The news keeps flowing from Georgia, even if opposition outlets are still muzzled under emergency decree. President Saakashvili has had his decision to declare the emergency rubber-stamped by Parliament. Further, early elections have been declared, in what amounts to a shrewd move for the...... [view]
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