21 February 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Egypt – Confrontation with Radical Islamism
21.02.2015 | 00:00 | Boris DOLGOV
…It can be assumed that terrorist attacks against Egypt by the Islamic State (IS) have been prompted by the Egyptian leadership’s policy on rapprochement with Russia, including military-technical cooperation, which was strengthened after President Putin’s recent visit to Egypt. IS is a threat to Russia as well as Egypt, due to the Islamists’ threats of a «jihad to liberate Chechnya.» Expanded cooperation between Russia and Egypt in the fight against radical Islamism, as well as Russia’s military and political support for actions against IS in Libya, is in the mutual interests of both Cairo and Moscow.
New UN Security Council Resolution on Ukraine
20.02.2015 | 14:09 | Alexander MEZYAEV
The adopted United Nations Security Council Resolution ? 2202 should be considered as an element of diplomatic and international legal peacemaking operation launched by German Chancellor and French President when they visited Moscow on February 12. There is ground to believe that in reality this operation started in December 2014 when French President Francois Hollande paid a flash-like visit to Moscow with President Vladimir Putin to meet him in the airport. Perhaps the peacemaking operation was forcibly stopped by those who perpetrated the terrorist act against the French weekly Charlie Ebdo. No matter that, the operation is underway.
Country’s Future and Drastic Reshuffle in Ukrainian Tycoons’ Ranks
20.02.2015 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ
The civil war unleashed by the ruling regime in Ukraine resulted in human suffering and degradation of national economy, as well as transformation of ruling elite. The perception that nine families of tycoons rule the country does not correspond to reality anymore. The ruling circle gets rapidly narrowed as big business in the south-east gets bankrupt with its property systematically eliminated as if it were done according to some plan… The temporary cease-fire is in force as a result of Minsk agreement, but the internal fight between tycoon clans is in full swing…
US: Who Will Be Blamed for Failure of Nuclear Talks With Iran?
20.02.2015 | 00:00 | Nikolai BOBKIN
…The smouldering conflict between the US and Israeli governments has come out in the open. Talking about the US-Israel relations, Barack Obama has done something nobody has done before him. In a sign of the rift that has opened between the White House and Mr. Netanyahu, US officials have stopped briefing his government about the Iran talks… The move is widely seen as revenge for Netanyahu’s planned speech to Congress next month, which has raised the ire of the Obama administration…
Lithuanian Regime and Technology of Political Duplicity
19.02.2015 | 18:10 | Valéry VRUBLEVSKY
To what extent does the Lithuanian political regime match the standards of civilized Europe? It’s hard to give an unambiguous answer. That’s what comes to mind on February 16 – the Lithuania’s Independence Day marked by marches of Neo-Nazis in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city. On October 28, 1941 German and Lithuanian fascists joined together to eliminate the local ghetto executing 10 thousand Jews in one day…
Putin in Hungary: Western Anti-Russia Unity Shattered
19.02.2015 | 00:00 | Arkady DZIUBA
President Putin arrived on a working visit to Hungary on February 17. The importance of this event goes beyond the limits of bilateral relations. It was an outstanding event… Victor Orban is really popular at home – the right partner to make deals with. He is a real, not a theatrical, nationalist and he understands that it is easy to sacrifice the interests of Hungary, a small country, to the interests of leading EU states or European bureaucracy… Victor Orban is a very pragmatic person and sound pragmatism is a good alternative to Europe’s role of vassal of the USA…
Merkel Peace Laureate Another Bad Joke
19.02.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
Germans are known for their exceedingly dry humour… But, seriously, the proposed nomination of Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to some media reports, for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has got to be a joke that will provoke much unintended mirth… Perhaps the most notorious prize winner was former American foreign secretary Henry Kissinger who was hailed a peacemaker despite overseeing criminal, genocidal wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia… Candidate for second most notorious peace laureate is current US President Barack Obama…
Game with No Rules: Legal Imperialism against Russia (II)
18.02.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
…A compensation lawsuit of former Soviet republics against the Russian Federation is a multipurpose weapon of the West. First, it’s an instrument of waging ideological, psychological and information war used to falsify the history and blow up anti-Russian hysteria. Second, it’s a way to wage economic war…
Western «mediators» are biased toward Kiev putschists
18.02.2015 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
Gone are the days when certain Western nations possessed bona fide credentials as impartial mediators of conflicts. Today, even the Swiss, long regarded as neutral, are anything but, judging from their cooperation agreements with such NATO contrivances the as Partnership for Peace (PfP) and the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC)…
US Imperialism and the Catastrophe in Libya
17.02.2015 | 22:32 | EDITOR’S CHOICE
This weekend, the Islamic State (ISIS) released a video of the horrific beheadings of 21 Coptic Christian workers seized in the town of Sirte in eastern Libya. This barbaric act was the latest in a series of such killings, including the beheading or immolation of hostages from the US, Britain, Japan and Jordan.
Game with No Rules: Legal Imperialism against Russia (I)
17.02.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
The term legal imperialism was coined in relation to the Argentina’s public debt. A New York court admitted a number of private claims to hand down a verdict. By a stroke of hand a judge increased the country’s debt up to $120 billion, according to experts’ estimates. The essence of legal imperialism is the support rendered by Anglo-Saxon legal system to financial vultures… The decision handed down by the Hague-based International Arbitration Court in the Russian oil giant Yukos case upon the claim of foreign shareholders is the example of how the legal imperialism works…
Argentina’s Reconnaissance Work against US and Israeli Spy Networks
17.02.2015 | 00:00 | Nil NIKANDROV
Two recent high-profile suicides – one in France and another in Argentina – are very similar. A successful and well-liked French police chief by the name of Helric Fredou was found dead after launching an investigation into the terrorist attack on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo weekly… A very similar event took place in Buenos Aires, where Alberto Nisman, a special prosecutor investigating the long-ago explosion at the Jewish Cultural Center in 1994, allegedly shot himself in January…
Russia’s Defence Minister Touring Caribbean Triangle
16.02.2015 | 00:00 | Nil NIKANDROV
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu went on a Latin American tour on February 11-14 taking him to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba – the countries that maintain stable allied relations with Russia in the field of military cooperation. An agreement on conducting joint military exercises was signed in Venezuela. Russia and Nicaragua signed an intergovernmental agreement on a simplified procedure of Russian Navy warships’ visits to the ports of Nicaragua. An agreement on development of military-technical cooperation was concluded during the visit to Cuba…
Nuland attempts Kiev Version 2.0 in Skopje
16.02.2015 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
After having initiated her well-planned Maidan Square uprising in Kiev in early 2014, triggering Europe’s worst conflict in Ukraine since the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, Victoria Nuland, the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, recently attempted a Kiev-style putsch in Macedonia aimed at overthrowing that nation’s democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski…
Brussels’s Next Balkans Ersatz State: Vojvodina
15.02.2015 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN
If the Brussels-based European Union and NATO have their way, the Serbian province of Vojvodina will join Kosovo, previously carved by the European Union and NATO from Serbia as an ethnic Albanian state run by the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), as the next ersatz independent state in the Balkans…
Dayton for Ukraine
15.02.2015 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV
With all the agreements reached, the talks in Minsk have left a lot of unsolved problems. The main one is defining the territorial status of what some call separate areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions while others view them as the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics. I believe that the experience of the Dayton 1995 accords could be useful here. Obviously the Dayton (Bosnian) model is relevant in the case of Ukraine…
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