The New Dark Age

3 July, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation

2010-06-28
Atai MOLDOBAEV (Kyrgyzstan)
Origin of Kyrgyz Divide Between North and South
“Relations between the northern and the southern parts of Kyrgyzstan had always attracted much attention from the Soviet power elite and remain a primary concern in today’s Kyrgyz Republic. Regional authorities in the north and in the south, both seeking dominance in the region, continue to rely on the outdated system of tribal ties… The divide between the north and the south has played a crucial role in the Kyrgyz home policies after 1991. And each time a new ‘faction’ seizes power, its members are trying to diminish influence of the ousted clans…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=3126

2010-06-30
Ivan ZORIN
A tiny island called Great Britain
“England was acting as a terrorist state for centuries consistently pursing its expansionist policy… England took maximum advantage of its geographical position. Having no direct contact with hostile nations it had been constantly intriguing, shamelessly using the weakness of the European countries which had to fight with the enemies of the Christian Europe. The British diplomacy succeeded in sharing its experience with the US…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=3128

2010-06-28
M.K. BHADRAKUMAR (India)
The Kyrgyz crisis and regional security
“The crisis in the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan no doubt holds out grave implications for regional security and India cannot remain impervious to them. Kyrgyzstan too is a land-locked country like Afghanistan that at once becomes highly susceptible to foreign interference. Again, the deepening crisis in Kyrgyzstan contains a mirror image of almost all the elements associated with the Afghan civil war. The international community’s reaction to the Kyrgyz crisis, especially the glaring absence of a coordinated regional response, is bound to cast shadows on the endgame in Afghanistan…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=3131

2010-06-30
Pyotr ISKENDEROV
Dangerous games of Great Romanian patriots
“One more confrontation line has emerged in Moldova constantly shaken by internal political crises. At an emergency session on June 28, the ruling “Alliance for European Integration” decided to abolish the decree signed by the interim president Mihai Ghimpu declaring June 28 as the Soviet occupation day and a day of mourning for the victims of totalitarian communism… Almost simultaneously with Ghimpu’s decree the Romanian president Traian Basescu submitted a draft of the national defense strategy to the parliament. In this document Russia was regarded as a source of external threat because its troops are deployed near the Romanian border in Moldova’s TransDniester region…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=3132

2010-06-29
M.K. BHADRAKUMAR (India)
Can Petraeus repeat the Iraq story?
“Washington is well-placed today to exploit the contradictions in the relationships among regional powers – Russia-Iran, Russia-Uzbekistan, Russia-Tajikistan, China-India, China-Russia, Pakistan-India, Iran-India – and to strike “grand bargains” with some of them… The Anglo-American strategy aims at transforming the war in Afghanistan whereby western troops will not get killed anymore so that western military presence in the Central Asian region can continue without the domestic public opinion getting exacerbated on that score…”
en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=3134