The New Dark Age

2010-03-10
Andrei VOLODIN
Pakistani – Indian Relations: Anticipating Positive Change
“The February 25 meeting of the Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan can be regarded as evidence that the US is switching to a new and much more sophisticated strategy in dealing with South Asia… the very adoption of a new strategy with respect to South Asia by the US is tantamount to Washington’s unarticulated admission of the limitations the US is facing in the geopolitical sphere as well as of its inability to act efficiently on several tracks in a parallel mode…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2815

2010-03-07
Pyotr ISKENDEROV
Albanian Conquest of the EU
“Belgian Prime Minister Ives Leterme will pay a visit to the Balkans on March 8. He and Belgium Secretary of State for Immigration Melchior Wathelet will tour Kosovo and Macedonia, where discussions will revolve around the current massive inflow of Albanians to Belgium… The process has already echoed with the Belgian government’s extreme concern and is even likely to affect the neighboring France…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2833

2010-03-08
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)
Saudi Arabia as Interlocutor in South Asia?
“…The Indian Minister of State in External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor… said that Saudi Arabia can play the role of a ‘valuable interlocutor’ between India and Pakistan to ease tensions in bilateral relations… Most of the Indian political circles have expressed reservation at such an idea of South Asian amity at the behest of Saudi Arabia. Bhartiya Janata Party, the main opposition party in the Indian parliament called the statement ‘utterly irresponsible’. The Left parties also criticised the statement on the same ground…
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2838

2010-03-08
M.K. BHADRAKUMAR (India)
Why AfPak diplomacy is on a roller coaster
“The London conference on Afghanistan on January 28 was a high watermark of the US’s AfPak diplomacy… The diplomacy leading to the Lancaster House conference unmistakably had a “Holbrookean” touch – to give credit to the US’s AfPak special representative Richard Holbrooke, who was excelling his own awesome performance at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, some fifteen years ago when he dismembered the former state of Yugoslavia canton by canton…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2839

2010-03-09
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)
Putin’s Visit to New Delhi: Harbinger of Hope in Bilateral Defence Relations
“In the past decade if something that affected negatively most of bilateral relations between India and Russia it was defence, the field in which both the countries had enjoyed most intense relationship. It is a truism that minus Soviet/Russian component India’s defence sector could have mostly rudimental or something different…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2843

2010-03-11
Natalia MEDEN
Love and loyalty: Bundeswehr in Afghanistan
“The check-up of a private company “Ecolog” is over in Afghanistan. The company is working for the German military in the Asian country and has been checked up on, on suspicion of involvement with the drug mafia. The military has decided that it will continue cooperation with the company, while the latter has admitted that the Bundeswehr is its favourite customer. That story of “love and loyalty” has laid bare a number of grave problems, attesting to a lame nature of the western coalition’s strategy for Afghanistan…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2845

2010-03-11
Vladislav GULEVICH (Ukraine)
Ukrainian Nazism Attacking
“According to the rating supplied by Foreign Policy, an influential US magazine, last summer the ultra-nationalist Ukrainian Freedom party led by Oleg Tyahnybok secured a place in the list of the world’s top five most dynamically gaining radical parties. This means that serious changes await the political map of Ukraine…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2848