On April 24, Armenians commemorated the 101st anniversary of the 1915 genocide that consigned 1.5 million men, women and children to a torturous end. The Anglo-Saxon world, which was battling the Turks during this period, appeared powerless as another 700,000 Assyrian and Syrian Christians, 350,000 Greeks and an unspecified number of Syrian Muslim…

Part 1 – Introduction and historical approach to the Ethiopian Conflict In the sphere of Responsibility of International Organizations, there is no agreement on how to set their responsibility. On the third week of March 2016, at MGIMO University, the Sixth Commission of the International Model of the United Nations (MIMUN) discussed this issue…

With an unequivocal and peremptory resolution, the European Parliament condemned, in early February 2016, the alleged violations of human rights perpetrated against the Tatars in Crimea after the reconciliation of the peninsula with Moscow. The last initiative made by the European establishment against the Russian Federation reaffirmed, once again, the…

The issue of drug trafficking from Afghanistan in Central Asia and proposed solutions
 
 

 
A brief summary of the problem 
 
During the Soviet Union drug was considered a ‘capitalist disease’, and therefore, the drug problem in Central Asia seems to be new. Drug trade is rooted especially in the war in…

There goes a saying: A chain is as strong as its weakest link. This may very well be the case with the EU vis-à-vis its member state dependency on Russian natural gas. While analyzing the European gas market, too much attention has been focused on the EU-28 average gas consumption index and very little scrutiny was given to individual…

http://www.rferl.org/content/brezhnevs-children/24765431.html
Russia is not the Soviet union.  The regime in Russia has little in common with the Soviet regime. To imply that the process of reforming Russia represents a continuation of attempts to reform the Soviet regime, as Whitmore does, distorts reality beyond recognition.
 
Failures…

My Russian friends used to annoy me when they insisted I could not understand Russia if I knew only Moscow and St. Petersburg.  So I began to visit other Russian cities and surrounding countryside--Perm, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Izhevsk, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Ufa, Krasnodar, Vladimir-Suzdal, Tuapse.  My conclusion?  My friends were…

Much has been written about Europe’s falling dependency on natural gas and how detrimental this seemed to be for Russia, being the biggest supplier of natural gas to the old continent. Falling demand, falling prices and eventually falling revenues for Russia’s state budget – Russophobes were quick to celebrate the demise of…

 Someone please warn Donald Trump.  Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  is not qualified to be a heartbeat from the presidency.  She has the politically correct gender and race, but she lacks the judgment.  He could lose the general election because of her vociferous support of the 2003 Iraq War. But even more, she…

Strategic goals and objectives
 
Last January, Romania initiated a proposal to create a permanent NATO naval task force in the Black Sea and Bucharest intends to discuss its project during the summit of the Alliance in Warsaw in July. It is noticeably the first concrete Romanian initiative in terms of maritime security in the Black Sea, a naval…

                             Unafraid, Bi-partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom
 
On July 4th, 2015 we penned an “Open Letter to Donald Trump,” recognizing before almost anybody else that this…

As Brazil’s political and economic crisis deepens a senior intelligence official has revealed that the nation is being targeted by Islamic State (IS).
 
From a security perspective the games take on a nationwide threat profile because the football tournament that is part of the Rio games will be played in major cities throughout Brazil…