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08.02.2010 :: Оrbis Terrarum

Olga CHETVERIKOVA

Israel: preparations for a disaster in light of a Haiti experiment

"...The Venezuelan State television channel ViveTV quoted on its website a report by the Russian Northern Fleet as saying that the Haiti earthquake was provoked by the testing of a seismic weapon by the US Fourth Fleet. This kind of weapon is planned to be used against Iran... When time finally comes for a “final solution” of the Palestinian problem, it is not impossible that developments in Palestine may follow the Haiti scenario..."
07.02.2010 :: Regions of Russia

Nil NIKANDROV

Kaliningrad. The amber mafia

"What is wrong with the Kaliningrad amber? Why is the Russian western enclave, which has the biggest amber reserves in the world (up to 90%), almost unknown on the international market and why does it settle for the role of raw amber exporter, supplying it to Poland (the main consumer), Lithuania, Germany, China and the Scandinavian countries?.. It is not excluded that Russia will lose its amber industry for quite a long time if not for good. The amber mafia is still too powerful..."

04.02.2010 :: Оrbis Terrarum

Rafe MAIR (Canada)

The Wounded Eagle

"President Obama is at odds with many Americans, who forgetting the lessons of Vietnam, want more, not less, military action abroad. Any move towards peaceful settlements is seen by right-wingers as a sell-out. They support NATO expanding in Eastern Europe and if that annoys Mr. Putin, too bad. For them the Cold War is only adjourned until the US goes back to rubbing Russia’s nose in it..."

04.02.2010 :: Russia is concentrating

Sergei BREZKUN (KREMLEV)

The World That Escaped the Bomb but Got Blown Up Afterwards

"The US and Russian leaders should be maximally cautious about the plans for immediate and far-reaching slashes of their nuclear arsenals... Obama's imbalanced approach to the nuclear theme can trigger a sharp global instability. The current situation is alarming: there is an impression that certain forces are pushing for a new treaty to irreversibly annihilate Russia's nuclear potential on the eve of the coming deployment of the US missile defense..."

03.02.2010 :: Оrbis Terrarum

Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)

London Afghanistan Conference

"Reportedly, the United Nations representative had a discussion with representatives of Taliban in Dubai on 8 January 2010. Organisations like Organisation of Islamic Conference and countries like Saudi Arabia have expressed keen interest to mediate between the Taliban and the Afghan government. The London conference has also set up a Peace and Reintegration Trust Fund..."

02.02.2010 :: Kosovo - Serbia - Russia

Pyotr ISKENDEROV

New Balkan Wars Loom on the Horizon

"Given its basic parameters (a snap offensive supported by the NATO and EU pseudo-peacekeepers with international political backing plus the installation of a puppet administration), the plan for a final solution for North Kosovo is similar to the one Georgian President M. Saakashvili had in mind launching an attack against South Ossetia in August, 2008..."

01.02.2010 :: Оrbis Terrarum

M.K. BHADRAKUMAR (India)

The great game reaches Sri Lanka

"...Without doubt, the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean region is shifting. The United States is determined to fasten the “contested commons” in the Indian Ocean, which connect the Persian Gulf with the South China Sea. Indian Ocean also happens to be a vital artery for China’s economy... Sri Lanka becomes a vital chip in this great game... All the Anglo-American pressure on Rajapaksa over his alleged war crimes came to nothing ultimately due to Moscow and Beijing’s support for him in the United Nations..."

31.01.2010 :: Ukraine: Choosing a Way

Sergei MOLCHANOV

Ukraine: Elections or Emergency Rule?

"When the preliminary results of the first round were announced, Tymoshenko immediately responded by charging that mass rigging had taken place in South-East Ukraine. She is a priori determined not to admit to being defeated and will seize every opportunity to derail the elections by instigating mass falsifications, provocations, mass protest rallies, and court hearings...

31.01.2010 :: Ukraine: Choosing a Way

Svetlana ZAMLELOVA

The Murderous Loser

"Everyone knows that Stepan Bandera was a bad person. Otherwise Victor Yushchenko would not have given him the title of Hero of Ukraine, to do Moscow dirt in the end and to add to his successor’s troubles. It is, of course, very much out of the ordinary to involve the deceased in rituals. This is actually the Mormon cult that performs rites that involve the deceased... We could suppose that Victor Yushchenko is a secret Mormon..."

30.01.2010 :: Оrbis Terrarum

Andrei KONUROV

The Global Political Player and the Jews

"The efforts aimed at disguising the activity of the global cosmopolitan elite combined with the persistent popularization of the global Jewish conspiracy theory invite the hypothesis that in the framework of the current world order Jews are given the role of a false panel meant to absorb the discontent of the nations frustrated with the existing arrangement..."

30.01.2010 :: Оrbis Terrarum

Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)

Cyber Politics: a New Dynamic in Inter-State Relations

"The issue came to the forefront on 12 January 2010 when the California based web search engine Google accused the Chinese government of accessing email accounts of its email holders in a ‘highly sophisticated’ attack... The US President Barack Obama declared that he is ‘troubled’ by the developments... Chinese official daily Xinhua quoting a spokesman of the ministry of Information and Technology denied any charges of violation of cyber laws..."

29.01.2010 :: Оrbis Terrarum

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..."

28.01.2010 :: Heritage

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..."

26.01.2010 :: Оrbis Terrarum

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”..."

25.01.2010 :: Оrbis Terrarum

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..."

24.01.2010 :: Оrbis Terrarum

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..."

23.01.2010 :: Оrbis Terrarum

Eugene IVANOV (USA)

Ethnic Lobbies in America: Outsourcing U.S. Foreign Policy?

"..In their influence exerted on contemporary American political life, no ethnic lobby can rival the Jewish-American lobby... Thanks to the tireless efforts of Jewish-American lobby (organized under the aegis of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)), Israel has been the largest recipient of U.S. economic and military aid since WWII: over $140 billion in 2004 dollars..."

22.01.2010 :: Оrbis Terrarum

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..."

21.01.2010 :: Energy of the Future

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..."

17.01.2010 :: Оrbis Terrarum

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..."