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Latest publications from 10-30 January, 2010

2010-01-24
Natalia MEDEN
A New Player in European Energy Policy
“The European Commission is to take charge in a new composition for the coming five years this February… Commission President J. Barroso is to submit the list of candidates to the European Parliament on February 9. German politician Guenther Oettinger is offered the post of the Energy Commissioner, which implies a sensitive role in the relations between the EU and Russia… Germany is exposed to permanent criticism for its close ties with Russia in the energy sphere…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2718

2010-01-25
Andrei VOLODIN
Pakistani Nuclear Program
“According to the strategic concept adopted by the Pakistani elite, the objective of the country's nuclear program is to neutralize the threat posed by India, its historical rival enjoying vast superiority in both conventional forces and WMD. Besides, possessing nuclear weapons elevates Islamabad's international status, especially among the “fraternal” Muslim countries. Pakistani leaders reiterate that from the outset the entire nuclear program is of an exclusively defensive character…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2721

2010-01-26
Yuriy RUBTSOV
Auschwitz Victims Call to End Political Games Around History
“Leader of the Israeli center of Holocaust survivors Noah Flug said Jews remember that 65 years ago Majdanek and Auschwitz were liberated by Soviet soldiers and the Red Army. In ghettos and concentration camps, the Red Army was the people's last hope, it saved them, defeated Hitler, and saved Europe. Recently, there has been a tendency to liken the Soviet and the Nazi regimes and to call the epoch of World War II the time of dictatorships – in Flug's words, “this is unacceptable”…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2723

2010-01-28
Andrei ARESHEV
Georgian Militarization and Its Diplomatic Backing
“Nevertheless, Brussels continues to support Georgia's “territorial integrity” and military reforms. Discussions of the draft Georgian Strategies with Respect to Separatist Regions are underway in Tbilisi… Despite the contraction, Georgia continues to steer a course aimed at its total militarization… There are rumors that Georgia and Israel signed a secret agreement by which two Georgian airports are passed under the Israeli control…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2728

2010-01-29
Nil NIKANDROV
Latin America: Holodomor Made in the US
“The US readily resorts to famine as a weapon against defiant regimes. The economic blockade against Cuba imposed by Washington in 1962 was an outrageous attempt to starve the nation… The US attempted to realize a complex of covert operations meant to provoke hungry mutinies in Venezuela…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2730

2010-01-28
Irina LEBEDEVA (USA)
A Day in History: Auschwitz and Leningrad
“It has been erased from the current versions of the XX century history that officially Buchenwald was not a death camp like Auschwitz, that prisoners rebelled in Buchenwald and broke free without external help, and that on the eve of the rebellion Russian communists gave Jews doomed to extermination the red labels with letter R from their uniforms and took their yellow stars to save the people. This was remembered immediately after the war, and the world admired the real heroes of the anti-fascist resistance. April 11 – the date of the rebellion in Buchenwald – was set as the Concentration Camps Victims Remembrance Day…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2731

latest publications from 17 - 23 January, 2010

2010-01-17
Aleksandr SHUSTOV
Central Asia: 10 Major Developments in 2010
“In a number of regards, 2009 was a watershed year for the Central Asian republics which gained independence 18 years ago as the result of the disintegration of the USSR. No doubt, the key 2009 developments will be affecting the situation in the region in 2010 and beyond…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2695

2010-01-17
Andrei KONUROV
Turkish Elite: With Russia or with the EU?
“…”Forced to conceal their Islamist leanings in domestic politics, Turkish leaders act with greater openness internationally. Erdogan clashed with Israeli President S. Peres in Davos over Israel's operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Erdogan lambasted Pres's advocacy of the offensive and left the forum after being cut off by the moderator. Notably, Erdogan's response came at the time when most Muslim countries chose to keep a low profile and some – like Egypt – even implicitly sided with Israel. Erdogan was cheered by a crowd of supporters upon returning to Turkey, slogans “Hamas is Erdogan, not Taliban” appeared in the streets of Gaza, and the mayor of Tehran granted to Erdogan the title of an honorary citizen following the row…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2712

2010-01-21
Igor TOMBERG
Empty Pipelines Summit
“It is getting increasingly difficult to route energy supplies around Russia as the resource base available to feed the fourth energy transit corridor is rapidly shrinking…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2717

2010-01-22
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)
A New Dimension to the Regional Conflict
“The recent reiteration of Pakistan of ‘thousand years of war’ with India in Pak controlled Kashmir has brought into the forefront the deep tensions in the South Asian politics. The likely Afghan scenario after the withdrawal of NATO forces in 2012 and the strategies of various players in the region has further complicated the geopolitical matrix of the region…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2717

latest publications from 10 - 16 January, 2010

2010-01-14
Eugene IVANOV (USA)
Be healthy, or a Christmas gift to President Obama
“54 million of Americans (roughly one sixth) have no medical insurance and therefore no systematic access to medical care. The social and economic consequences of that are disastrous: lack of medical care is believed to be the cause of at least 45 thousand deaths every year, whereas inability to pay for medical bills leads to an estimated one million bankruptcies…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2685

2010-01-11
David KERANS (USA)
Wanted Roosevelt, Got Yeltsin: Obama’s Feeble First Year
“Twelve short months after assuming power… Obama`s White House has not undertaken any deep reevaluation of the US system, and it is quite clear that none is forthcoming… Whatever Obama` s ideological proclivities might be, do we know to what extent he is even President at all? That is, do we know the degree to which the CIA, the Pentagon, and Wall St. constrain his freedom of action? And, in so far as Obama`s volition matters, can we describe him as a statesman and a leader? Or is he showing himself to be something far smaller?..”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2692

2010-01-15
Alexander VORONTSOV
Oleg REVENKO
Korean Peninsula Nuclear Problem: More Questions than Answers
“Though the last months of 2009 saw a surge in diplomatic activity centered around the DPRK, the prospects for the resolution of its nuclear problem remain at best unclear. In particular, a question mark hangs over the future of the six-party talks as their last round took place in Beijing over a year ago…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2694

2010-01-12
William BOWLES (United Kingdom)
Bilderbergs of the world unite!
“In a world where the dominant economic forces are a couple of hundred or so major corporations, corporations that de facto, ensure that their respective governments enact policies favourable to their survival and increasing prosperity for the major shareholders, the logical thing to do is to combine over issues that affect them all. I would be extremely surprised if the Bilderberg Group or something like it, didn’t exist…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2697