Новости СМИ

Breakaway Georgian region elects new president

Новости СМИ, 28.08.2011

Breakaway Georgian region elects new president

 Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia, which is protected by Russia and recognised only by a handful of countries, has elected its current vice-president, Alexander Ankvab, to the presidency. Georgian authorities say the election is illegitimate.

Indian autonomy and multipolar context

Новости СМИ, Informational bureau, 30.08.2010

In spite of its great climatic and geo-morphologic heterogeneity, of its diverse ethnic groups, of its large variety of cultures and religions, and of the consequent lack in socioeconomic homogeneity, India seems to have successfully followed the rule that made the ancient Empires great, i.e. the preservation of unity in diversity. However, the “miracle” of the Indian national unity is due not only to the constitutional law or to the form of federal government that the densely-populated Euro-Asiatic peninsula has adopted following the Independence of 1947, and not even to the fact that the Union would be, according to a worn-out slogan enjoying great favour until recently, the “greatest democracy in the world”. The preservation of unity in such a diversified national system, moreover marked by conflicts, could be more clearly explained both by a widespread specific political culture among the intellectual and political élite in the country, and by the balance between two power systems: one operating within the frame of Asian geopolitics, the other represented by the western expansionism in the Euro-Asian landmass.

 

Europe opposed to the West-Russia confrontation

Новости СМИ, Informational bureau, 19.09.2009

A change of the US missile defence system architecture will help integrate into it various radar and missile weapon systems, including Russian ones. The opinion was ventured by the Pentagon Chief Robert Gates as he commented on the US abandonment of the plan to deploy missile defence elements in the Czech Republic and Poland.

The US Defence Secretary has most likely implied the radar station in southern Russia, which, if included in the US missile defence system, will help close all gaps in the coverage of Iran’s territory. After all, this was the basic declared reason for deploying the elements of the US missile defence system in Europe. The issue is still subject to discussion but Moscow is known to have suggested that Russia and the US take up the issue when George Bush was still the man in the White House.