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October, 2008

28 October, 2008
Igor TOMBERG
Under Sign of Cartels
“The global financial crisis prompted Moscow to intensify its participation in energy price formation. Being the major oil and gas producer worldwide, until recently Russia has had no opportunity to set up export prices: the issue was in the competence of western stocks, while Russia sold its resources at the prices set up by speculative traders controlling the international financial flows…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1702

30 October, 2008
Vyacheslav BELOKRENITSKY
Pakistan as a problem country of the region
“Of late Pakistan has begun to attract greater attention in the world. By and large Russians have grown accustomed to view this country as an average one from the viewpoint of its level of development, its place on the international arena and the role it plays in the ties of Russia (before the USSR) with Asian and African countries. The time may have come to give up this view. Pakistan’s moving closer to the focus of international attention that has been observed in the recent years was both logical and vindicated…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1704

31 October, 2008
Sergei MARKEDONOV
Abkhazia as the Theatre of Georgia’s Terrorist Activities and Sabotage
“The renewed attempts to destabilise the situation in Abkhazia against the background of the unquiet life in South Ossetia and Georgia’s territory adjacent to it, need consideration and assessment of these new threats to the security of South Caucasian states recognised by Russia and to Russia itself as a guarantor of their statehood and the right of self-determination…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1707

20 October, 2008
Rafet DAVLETOV
The South Ossetian Crisis and Turkey (I)
“Turkey’s reaction towards the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia came as a surprise to many European politicians… As for Moscow, it appears it is interested in bringing its view of the situation in Nagorno Karabakh closer to that of Ankara – at least with an eye to prevent further growth of violence in this sub-region. The chances are that Moscow would soon boost activities in consolidating its relations along the axis Yerevan – Ankara…” read more…
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1684

21 October, 2008
Pyotr ISKENDEROV
The West Sets the Sights on Serbian Voevodina
“The pro-Western group led by Boris Tadic jointly with Hungarian separatists might implement their plan of final dismembering of the Serbian state… As for Hungarians, they may try to support granting Voevodina its statehood, thus turning Serbia into a Serbian-Hungarian federation… The rapid enforcement of the new Voevodina Statute along with delaying the conclusion of the agreement with Russia are all parts of one and the same strategy…” read more…
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1691

22 October, 2008
Nodar MOSAKI
Iraqi Turkomans in Ankara’s Anti-Kurd Policies
“Turkomans is a Turk nation living in the north of Iraq. Since the time of the first Persian Gulf War (1991) Ankara has been especially attentive to it. The annexation of the Mosul vilayyet by Iraq in the 1920s, and specifically its oil-rich fields in Mosul and Kirkuk, became a serious blow on Turkey… Since 1991 Ankara has repeatedly voiced its claims on these territories…” read more…
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1693

23 October, 2008
Nil NIKANDROV
Presidents of Latin America Sleeping on CIA Microphones
“While browsing the Web, I learned that President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala had asked the FBI to launch the espionage investigation after 7 unauthorized listening devices and 2 spy cameras had been found in the presidential office and residence… Nobody dared to remembers that the US CIA had been traditionally involved in such cases… Over the past 2 years the presidents of Columbia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Venezuela have felt what it was like to be under close watch…” read more…
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1695

24 October, 2008
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)
The World Order on Anvil
“Any future configuration of world order may not be feasible without Russia at one centre. Besides Russia, the US, India, China, Japan, the EU would be definitely the other poles. In fact, the developments in trans-Caucasus in particular and in Central Eurasia in general may serve as a prelude to the coming of a new world order…” read more…
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1703

12 October, 2008
Anna FILIMONOVA
People and Authorities under Western Pressure: Serbian Experience
“At the October 1 meeting between the German and Serbian leaders Angela Merkel and Boris Tadic Merkel stressed that “Serbia had a clear European prospect”, but in order to open it up a number of “necessary” things should be taken account of, primarily with regard to Kosovo. Opposing the helpless objections of Boris Tadic about the “three preconditions” for the European Civil Mission EULEX…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1665

14 October, 2008
Yuri BARANCHIK
The Bear Versus Anaconda: Outlines of an Asymmetrical Answer
“Having analyzed Russia’s recent foreign policy moves one can state that visible in them are outlines of the “asymmetrical” answer the Russian leadership pledged to make given the deployment of the U.S. anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic as well as the continuing US attempts to destabilize the post-Soviet space… In the conditions of further escalation by the US side of tensions with Russia we might soon learn about other “asymmetrical” answers Moscow can give to the challenges of the “global superpower”…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1671

16 October, 2008
Pyotr ISKENDEROV
Ahtisaari after Gorbachev: Degradation of the Nobel Prize
“The recent decision the Norway’s Nobel Prize Committee had never been as biased and politicised as this year. In recent years this award was given to statesmen, activists of international organisations and other candidates, the significance of whose contribution to the cause of peace on the planet Earth could be doubted by someone, but nevertheless, there was no one doubting their positive aspirations… But awarding Finland’s ex-president Martti Ahtisaari with the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize… was a rude violation of the seemingly firm and positive trend…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1674

15 October, 2008
Nil NIKANDROV
Western Hemisphere: American Indians Fight for Their Rights
“The population of the pre-Columbus America was about 100 million, but during the next 150 years 95% of the indigenous peoples disappeared… Genocide! That’s what it was!” President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez told this at the opening ceremony of an aqueduct in one of the villages in the state of Zulia on October, 12-th. The event was timed to the celebrations of the Indian Resistance Day (which used to be called ‘’Columbus Day’’)… The initiative to rename the holiday into the Indian Resistance Day was backed by all Chavez supporters from Canada to Chile…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1677

16 October, 2008
Andrei ARESHEV
Consultations in Geneva: Meaningful Discussions or Empty Verbiage
“On October 15 the Swiss Palace of Nations became the venue of the much touted consultations on Abkhazia and South Ossetia… At present, the threat of terrorist attacks by Georgia against the states Russia has recognised is as real as never before…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1682

6 October, 2008
Andrei ARESHEV
European Observers in Georgia: Playing the Trojan Horse Game?
“The degree of attention the leading Western press pays to the mission of EU observers in Georgia is evidence that there are hopes for its success. As things turn out, the press is also needed for the purpose of advance pointing at the culprit in the event of worsening of the current situation.” Ossetians frequently break nigh-time silence in what is actually known as the transborder territory” – for one Frankfurter Rundschau writes…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1655

7 October, 2008
Yana AMELINA
Ukrainian Mercenaries against South Ossetia
“…The UNA-UNSO leaders also deny that its members were involved in the war in the RSO. Igor Mazur, a member of the UMNA-UNSO headquarters, argues: “Neither our organisation nor its members took part in that conflict.” By denying the facts of direct involvement of Ukrainian citizens Ekhanurov, Nalivaichenko and Mazur lie – they are all liers.”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1656

5 October, 2008
Daniele SCALEA (Italia)
The war for South Ossetia
“?he EU has immediately welcomed the idea according to which Moscow won’t be any longer allowed to act as mediator in the Caucasus but, on the contrary, it will have to resort to Brussels’ mediation in its clash with Tblisi. Hence it will be up to Moscow and its resoluteness to ward off the possible diplomatic backlashes of the conflict: Russia is historically a master in winning wars on the ground and then losing them at the negotiation table…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1660

5 October, 2008
Matthias CHANG (USA)
Global Red Alert: US Will Not Be Able to Service Its Debts
“Not many Americans are aware that the US has to service annually, debt-interest to the tune of US$400-500 billion!.. In 2000 / 2001, the US economy almost collapsed and the false flag operation of September 11, provided the pretext and the opportunity for the Military-Industrial-Financial Complex to wage a global war (the “War On Terror”) to avert the financial crisis – the massive US debt default. The Bush regime was able to delay the crisis for seven odd years…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1661

10 October, 2008
Alexander MEZYAEV
Trial Against Vojislav Sheshel Fails
“The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) began the trial process against the leader of the Serbian Radical Party Vojislav Sheshel a year ago, but yet the Prosecutor’s Office has not presented any significant evidence of his guilt. From the very beginning it was obvious that the process would be a failure…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1662

7 October, 2008
Nil NIKANDROV
Will Chavez Murder Be Finishing Touch For the Bush Administration?
“President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez has repeatedly told that during the last weeks of George W. Bush`s presidency in the United States the Bolivarian republic and he, Chavez, personally would be in danger… “Washington’s high-ranking officials have long decided on how to get rid of me”- Hugo Chavez said citing reliable source in the ally countries in Western hemisphere, in Europe and in the US…There are enough stories how the United States eliminated the unwanted Latin American politicians…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1663

10 October, 2008
Andrei ARESHEV
The Act of Terror in Tzkhinval: Foreboding of a New War?
“If information on this infrastructure’s planned use for attacks and acts of terror in South Ossetia and Abkhazia arrives, it should be destroyed regardless of its location and diplomatic contingencies, the price of which is perfectly clear to all…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1667

9 October, 2008
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)
Defence Cooperation on a New Leash
“About 70 per cent of India’s arms are of Soviet/Russian origin, and both the countries have shared not only buyer-seller relationship but also partnership in jointly designing, constructing and producing weapons, of which Brahmos is one of the most dazzling examples… The forthcoming Medvedev visit would likely witness some fruitful exercises in bilateral relations. Both the countries possess enormous potentials for defence cooperation…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1670

3 October, 2008
Sergei MARKEDONOV
Abkhazia In Focus
“On September 20-th Abkhazia celebrated a brand new Independence Day… The history of Abkhazia`s fight for self-determination is dramatic as it reveals a few fundamental problems of political development of the whole Eurasian continent… Over the past 15 years Tbilisi at least three times pushed Abkhazia aside. The Abkhaz people paid back in the same coin by expelling Georgians. The outcome is quite logical. Self-determination ended in separation. Georgia lost Abkhazia, a part of its national project…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1653

1 October, 2008
Dmitriy BAKLIN
Pondering Over an Unanswered Letter…
“In his search of new historical allies and adversaries the current Ukrainian president has chosen quite a bizarre way of consolidating his authority. By attempting to forget the many centuries of the shared Russian-Ukrainian history, prophesying intolerance towards everything Russian and fanatical attempts at consolidation of the Galicia-style “national self-sustainability of the state” V.Yushchenko and his team try to monopolize the historical science turning it into a tool to achieve their political goals…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1654