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Latest publications from 9-15 August, 2009

2009-08-10
Pyotr ISKENDEROV
‘Great Albania’ Seeks Recognition
“The idea of ‘Great Albania’ is again in the air. On August 3 a proposal to form a separate region in the Presevo Valley with its own institutions and organs was raised in the assembly of the Presevo, Dujanovac and Medvedja municipalities and thus marked a new turn in the evolution of the so-called ‘Albanian national question’…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2361

2009-08-09
Eduard POPOV
Knut Hamsun: the Disquieting Anniversary
“While Dostoevsky is widely regarded as the prophet who predicted the anti-utopias of the XX century, the prophesy of his Norwegian admirer and, to an extent, follower Hamsun clearly refers to the XXI century… While Europe harbored a hidden fear of Russia which routinely translated into hatred, and permanently charged the country with militarism, Hamsun saw things in a totally different light…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2362

2009-08-13
Andrei KONUROV
When an Elite Degenerates into a Clique…
“Corrupting the elites of geopolitical opponents is an instrument routinely used in international politics. The US and the cosmopolitan forces currently taking over its global hegemony – the cast of informational and financial tycoons not rooted in any of the world’s countries – are true masters of the craft. Corrupting and mind-controlling the Soviet elite contributed more than anything else to the triumph of the West over the USSR in the Cold War…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2374

2009-08-10
Hannes HOFBAUER (Austria)
Moscow – Vienna: Changing partnership in oil and gas
“It was on the 13th of july 2009 when the Austrian chancellor Werner Faymann flew to Ankara and signed a state-contract about a future Eurasian energy project under the auspices of the president of the EU-commission José Manuel Barroso and the Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Nabucco, so the name of the planned project that should be put into practice by 2014/15, follows one geopolitical logic: it should weaken the Russian position in supplying energy for Western Europe and avoid the transfer of gas through Ukraine and Belarus…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2382

2009-08-13
Andrei ARESHEV
“Medvedev-Sarkozy plan” one year after: “the games of international formats”.
“A year ago – for the first time since 1991 – people of the Caucasus saw (and believed), that Russia does not leave friends in the lurch. The plans of mass annihilation and banishment of the Ossetian folk were prevented but logically it should be regarded only as the first step… Moscow should make new steps to strengthen relations with South Ossetia…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2386

2009-08-12
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)
What Death of Baitullah Mehsud Means for Terrorism
“The death of Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on 5 August 2009 in the southern Waziristan has brought to the fore significant achievements of anti-terror operations in Pakistan. The incident brings respite to the victims of the Taliban though it would be premature to say the death has ended Taliban in the region…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2389

2009-08-12
Rafe MAIR (Canada)
US and Canada as I Say, Not as I Do
“Let me to declare at the outset that I am NOT anti-American nor, needless to say, anti-Canadian; what I m against is hypocrisy… Both countries profess to be democracies though that s more on paper than in practice… The USA, of all countries, is prepared to cram peace down any bloodthirsty throat. In fact it is one of the most violent countries in the world past and today… The lesson to Ottawa and Washington is clear stop telling other people how they should govern themselves and what rights their citizens should have, until you clean up their own act…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2391