On August 13, 2017 a prominent Russian scientist on post-Soviet issues, Sergey Markedonov participated in a radio show, Geopolitical Cuisine, with Igor Shatrov aired by MediaMetrics Radio, dealing with the August 2008 War. During the broadcast both, Shatrov and Markedonov raised some very interesting and significant issues that were presented in scopes…

It didn’t take much time to Prime Minister Theresa May to react to the apparent poisoning of former Russian spy Sergey Skripal and his daughter Youlia. A few days after the Salisbury Hospital confirmed identification of the nerve agent to which the Skripals and other collateral victims were exposed, the British Prime Minister announced before the…

France has emerged as the key ally of India in the West as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expanding the foreign policy matrix of the South Asian nuclear giant facing heat from its neighbours China and Pakistan. To signify this Prime Minister Modi breaking the protocol personally welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron at the airport with a bear hug…

The Americans Rigged Our Election, Bribed Our Government, Stole Our Gold, Killed Our Men, Raped Our Women, and Poisoned our Air, Water, and Earth – and You Want to Blame Something on the Russians?
The Russians did not “hack” the US presidential election. Those are lies concocted by John Brennan. [1] What a few Russians did indeed do was muddle…

The increasing defense co-operation between Pakistan and Russia imply that arrangement is essentially a paradigm shift in the defense policy framework of both countries. Former army Chief General Raheel Sharif visited Moscow in the year 2015. The visit was significant because Indo-Pak tensions were particularly high at that time. India and Pakistan…

UPDATE 4 JAN 2019 Regardless of how much US secretary of state Pompeo urged Brazil to walk back its relationship with China during his recent visit to attend the inauguration of president Jair Bolsonaro, the official Brazil government news agency reports that a recent study by conservative Getulio Vargas Institute (GVI) indicates that China remains…

Here you can find the text of the statement of the Secretary General of Pugwash about the Statement on the United States 2018 Nuclear Posture Review On February 2, 2018, the Pentagon released the new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), stating that it rests “on a bedrock truth: nuclear weapons have and will continue to play a critical role in deterring…

During the early 70s and late 80s Afghanistan was the center-piece of the foreign policy objective of Moscow, Washington and Beijing. They used Afghanistan as a Grand-chess-board and established three strategic triangles in the country. Each tried to play the role of Bishop, the said three economic, military and political giants convinced to finance…

Engineered Globalization vs. globalization processes Despite the market-based features of all global interactions, global processes remain subject to an institutional scrutiny that oversees the management of policies under a fixed range of qualitative measures. I.e. the studies around “globalization” are stagnated around the organizational nature…

The significance of the upcoming run-off of the presidential election in Czech Republic is largely underestimated in Washington. But its prevalent view of it as a not too significant event in a small European country is dead wrong. Contenders include the sitting President, outspoken and politically incorrect Milos Zeman, who garnered 39% of the vote in…

Secession is a “much contested concept.”[1] Its definition depends, on the one hand, by the field of research in which it has been analysed: there are defining attempts under, for instance, the juridical, philosophical and political point of view. On the other hand, one of the disputes arises from the fact that the attempts to define secession…

Flickr / Y NakanishiAs the world ushers in the Year of Dog according the ancient Chinese Lunar calender, it would be appropriate to review what its predecessor, the Year of Rooster had in store for the relations of China 's two neighbouring giants - India and Russia. The Year of Rooster - 2017 has been a defining year in India-Russia relations…