16 October, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Post-Election Kyrgyzstan: Shadows of Akayev and Bakiyev
15.10.2010 | 10:34 | SHUSTOV Aleksandr
Perhaps the most striking feature of the recent campaign in Kyrgyzstan was the unprecedented number of parties in the race – a total of 29 of them competed over the parliament’s 129 seats. The proliferation of political parties reflected the structure of the Kyrgyz society which tends to function as a conglomerate of regional clans… Kyrgyzstan’s new parliament will be carved up by a northern and a southern coalition considering that the shadows of former Kyrgyz presidents Askar Akayev and Kurmanbek Bakiyev can be discerned behind some of the parties that won the recent elections…
US and Talibs: No Longer Irreconcilable
14.10.2010 | 14:53 | PUSTOVOITOVA Elena
The US Administration and Afghanistan’s government chose to get in touch with the Haqqani clan renown as a particularly ominous group in the ranks of the Afghan resistance. No doubt, the step reflects Washington’s awareness of its inability to prevail in the conflict in Afghanistan, and the Talibs’ guerrilla tactic must be credited with efficiency high enough to force the US ask for peace…
13.10.2010 | 19:45 | ISKENDEROV Pyotr
A new political crisis is ripening in Serbia’s Kosovo. The resignation of Kosovo’s President Fatmir Sejdiu was followed by the resignation of the government of Hashim Thaçi, which means that early parliamentary elections will be held. It also means the postponement of talks between Belgrade and Pristina and possibly a new allocation of forces in the Albanian camp.
Pakistan’s Assertion Against NATO in Afghanistan
12.10.2010 | 09:17 | MAHAPATRA Aurobinda (India)
The Khyber pass, about 35 kilometer route in the Hindu Kush mountain range, has recently rose to international light with Pakistan closing it for the traffic of NATO convoys to Afghanistan… The US policy makers may be taken aback by Pakistan army’s decision to close the Khyber pass. But it undoubtedly shows the rising assertion of Pakistan against the US policies in the region…
Collision Course for War over God
12.10.2010 | 08:43 | MAIR Rafe (Canada)
the United States in its foreign policy must reflect the steadily creeping clericalism that sees Al Qaeda and Islam as one and the same thing. It means, in short, that while in the past America could always oppose theocracies (always excepting Israel, of course), smugly asserting their secularism, it can no longer do so. In the event the new forces represented by the Tea Party take over, it won’t want to…
Russia resets with U.S., sprints with China
11.10.2010 | 13:31 | BHADRAKUMAR Melkulangara (India)
The Kremlin seems to factor in that a strong relationship with China can only strengthen its leverage as an emerging power during negotiations with the U.S. and the West…
10.10.2010 | 12:44 | ROBERTS Paul Craig
For a number of years I reported on the monthly nonfarm payroll jobs data. The data did not support the praises economists were singing to the “New Economy.” The “New Economy” consisted, allegedly, of financial services, innovation, and high-tech services. This economy was taking the place of the old “dirty fingernail” economy of industry and manufacturing. Education would retrain the workforce, and we would move on to a higher level of prosperity…
Workers’ Party of Korea’s conference: summing up the historical meeting
09.10.2010 | 10:44 | VORONTSOV Alexander, REVENKO Oleg
The meeting of North Korea’s ruling party (Workers’ Party of Korea – WPK) on September 28, the first one since the party’s congress of 1980, is the most important event in country’s domestic policy. Note, that the gatherings of the ruling party are rather exceptional events which are not held on a regular basis. They are held only when the most crucial issues must be considered…
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