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February, 2009

24 February, 2009 to 27 February, 2009

2009-02-24
Ajdar KURTOV
NATO to Take Russia’s Place
“Crisis is a chronic condition of Ukraine’s armed forces. Their problems are not bred by such factors as low quality of the Ukrainian officers’ corps or lack of enthusiasm among soldiers. The root causes of the crisis must be sought in Kyiv, in the offices of the Ukrainian administration…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1929

2009-02-27
Viktor PIROZHENKO (Ukraine)
Soros as the Mirror of the US Politics in the Post-Soviet Space
“Ukraine is given a nearly central role in the plans of Obama’s Administration to isolate Russia. Probably, the US will push for Ukraine’s informal and unannounced NATO membership and will interact with Kyiv as a de facto NATO member. Special attention will be paid to building the US ideological influence in Ukraine. The US will, in particular, boost the support of various NGOs in the country…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1936

2009-02-26
Andrei ARESHEV
New Round of US-Iran talks crucial for Russia
“At first sight, US attempts to please Tehran seemed unexpected… Is it possible that the statements made by US officials are aimed at cheating Moscow and Tehran (and some other countries)? Are they trying to make Russia believe that Washington may revise its missile plans in Poland and Czech Republic?..”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1944

2009-02-25
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)
A Terror Deal?
“The world exclaimed in surprise when the provincial North West Frontier Province government in Pakistan with support from Islamabad signed a ‘Peace’ deal on 16 February 2009 with the pro-Taliban organisation Tehrik-e-Nifaaz Shariat Muhammadi (TNSF) known for its extremist ideology in establishing Nizam-e-Adal in the Malakand region of the province which includes the Swat valley once called Switzerland of Pakistan…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1948

15 February, 2009 to 21 February, 2009

2009-02-16
Sergei BREZKUN
Is Russia back to its old time foreign policy?
“A new round of talks on strategic ‘offensive’ (quotes will be explained later) reductions will begin just because an official statement was made on the issue. But it seems to be quite reasonable to ask why Russia should reduce its nukes at all, especially as a result of an agreement with a self-interested America? Do they have the same doubts in the Russian Foreign Ministry?..”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1917

2009-02-19
Nil NIKANDROV
USA Loses the War against Latin American Drug Cartels
“Staying at the baggage zone at the airport in Mexico City I was one of the passengers flying in from Venezuela who watched the local police drug unit catching a large cargo of drugs. Wearing black uniforms and masks, the agents rolled out of the baggage section not less than 40 quite sizeable identically-looking valises for all of us to see…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1921

2009-02-18
Nil NIKANDROV
President Hugo Chavez Wins
“I spent over 10 years in Venezuela as a journalist and I know pretty well “who is who” in that country’s political elite. If asked whether there is now a real alternative to Hugo Chavez, someone capable of taking this governmental post, I would without hesitation answer “no, there isn’t”…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1928

2009-02-20
Roman TOMBERG
Chinese Leader’s Commodity-Oriented Tour
“On February 17, Chinese President Hu Jintao completed his traditional grand foreign tour. This time he visited the Saudi Arabia, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, and the Republic of Mauritius. The list of destinations shows clearly that the Chinese leader chose the countries which China regards primarily as suppliers of the natural resources for the global economic powerhouse…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1935

8 February, 2009 to 14 February, 2009

2009-02-10
Sergei BREZKUN
Global Stability and Nuclear Arms
“If even at times of the gravest tension the two nuclear superpowers were able to avoid a direct conflict, no aggravation of tensions between Russia and the USA will not in the long term pose a real threat to either the world’s peace, or our states, naturally, given the qualitative systemic nuclear parity is preserved…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1906

2009-02-13
Alexander VORONTSOV
How Far Will the Seoul-Pyongyang Aggravation Go?
“..In 2008 relations between South and North Koreas seriously transformed from productive cooperation to a state of a new “Cold war”… The changes were based on a new approach to its northern neighbours of the current South Korean administration…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1907

2009-02-12
Elena GUSKOVA
Are the Balkans One of Russia’s Foreign Policy Priorities?
“…Balkans foreign policy direction did not attract the attention of theoreticians and strategists of Russia’s foreign policies. Unless Moscow urgently identifies its interest in the Balkans with well-devised plans of regional policies for not just a year or so, but for five, ten or more years, we can forget about serenity and stability in this region for many years…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1910

2009-02-09
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)
Afghanistan the Hub of New Great Game in Central Eurasia
“The recent developments surrounding Afghanistan indicate a new architecture of relations emerging in Central Eurasia, further reinforcing the theory of great game in which the major stakeholders vie with each other to have control over the geostrategic arena of the region. It can be mentioned that the NATO forcers lost 90 supply lorries in December 2008 on a bridge in Khyber Pass from Pakistan by the Taliban attacks…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1911

2009-02-10
M.J.AKBAR (India)
The High Fives of the Big Five are over
“The official and oft-declared objective of America… is a world free of nuclear weapons. But Britain and the United States are the original proliferators… They set up Israel’s nuclear weapons programme by supplying technology and reactors. But the three holy cows of the nuclear game, America, Britain and Israel, will never allow even a whisper to arise in the public discourse of either Israel’s nuclear status or the Anglo-American alliance’s culpability…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1915

2009-02-13
Anatoly TSYGANOK
Military-economic confrontation in the Arctic
“If Soviet Russia was mainly preoccupied with threats coming from the West, today Moscow should expect difficulties in the North Pole. Since late 1990s US has been working hard to seize control over the planet’s most unknown land, and, actually, its actions have not been strongly opposed by anyone. Washington’s aim is to deploy its anti-missile elements as part of its North Pole-based nuclear threat…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1916

1 February, 2009 to 7 February, 2009

2009-02-02
Irina LEBEDEVA (USA)
US “Smart power” Invests in “Global good”
“A few days after Barack Obama sworn in as the new US leader, the key points of his political ideology became apparent. The media in US and worldwide had been so carried away discussing the details of the inauguration ceremony, nationalization of banks or dubious appointments in the Cabinet that overlooked the issue…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1891

2009-02-02
Irina LEBEDEVA (USA)
America Under Obama: Foxes Guarding the Henhouse
“Ascending to power, the first black President of the US was talking about “a choice the nation should make”. “We are choosing hope over fear. We are choosing unity over division” to overcome the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, America enjoyed the inauguration ceremony despite financial hardships…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1893

2009-02-03
Eduard POPOV
The Rusin Chord of the Ukrainian Crisis (II)
“Imposition of the US control over Ukrainian gas-pumping stations is impossible without US military presence in that country. What “orange-flower politicians” refer to as “Russia’s energy diktat” (the mechanism of acquisition of packages of shares of the gas transporting system) can be easily substituted for by “NATO’s regime of Ukraine’s occupation”…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1895

2009-02-05
Andrei KONUROV
Mafia in Georgia
“In summer of 2008, not long before a military conflict broke out in South Ossetia, tensions between two Georgian thieves of honor (vory v zakone), Tariel “Tariko” Oniani and Lashi “Rustavskyi Lasha” Shushanashvili were widely discussed in Russia…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1902

2009-02-04
Anatoly TSYGANOK
The Russia-Belarus Military-Technical Cooperation
“The highlight of February 3rd was the signing by Russia and Belarus of an agreement on setting up a joint air-defence system. According to the chief of the RF Airforce General-Colonel Aleksandr Zelin, the new combat force will include five air squadrons, ten missile batteries, five radar facilities and a radio combat unit…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1903