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Awaiting an independence day The battle between autonomy and complete independence has reached its finishing stages close to the shores of the Adriatic. The autonomy lobby includes Serbia backed by the Russia while the independence lobby is filled with allied westerners like the European Union and the United States. Yesterday, the deadline for the extended [...]

Georgia is the latest country among several former Soviet states to get into a new political crisis. It is hardly surprising to see that political turmoils in the Black Sea and Caucasian region have an inevitable Russian shadow over them. The basic reason for this instability being Moscow’s rise as a superpower once again and [...]

Russia continues to disappoint the west, particularly the United States, when it comes to its international and domestic policies. In an increasing proof of President Putin’s growing influence over Russian politics, Moscow has forced the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe(OSCE)to withdraw its election monitoring mission during next month’s Russian parliamentary elections. This is [...]

Joseph Conrad in his classic Heart of Darkness once and for all showed how Africa will always be the focus of colonial exploitation. First it was Europe, now it is Russia and China. They do not care for the people but only the oil and gas there. The African people are lulled into believing that [...]

Awaiting an independence day The battle between autonomy and complete independence has reached its finishing stages close to the shores of the Adriatic. The autonomy lobby includes Serbia backed by the Russia while the independence lobby is filled with allied westerners like the European Union and the United States. Yesterday, the deadline for the extended [...]

President Vladimir Putin’s backing of the less charismatic Dmitry Medvedev as his successor made the critics believe that the former KGB officer would like to have a strong say in Russian politics even after he relinquishes his presidential post early next year. That assumption is on the verge of becoming a reality with the President [...]

President Vladimir Putin’s backing of the less charismatic Dmitry Medvedev as his successor made the critics believe that the former KGB officer would like to have a strong say in Russian politics even after he relinquishes his presidential post early next year. That assumption is on the verge of becoming a reality with the President [...]

Those volatile days of the early nineties are past when Russians were struggling to come to terms with a new national identity far different from the Soviet era. The country was disintegrating into pieces with severe and deadly infighting taking priority over national reconciliation. Well, let us put that history to bed and face up [...]

As Europe opens its eastern frontiers uniting western part of the continent to the reclusive former communist eastern bloc in the process, there have been mixed emotions of the historic moment, particularly among the people from the west. The expansion of the Schengen Zone means there would be no passport checking for the people who [...]

Outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a scathing attack against the West in his last press conference before he steps down from his office next month. The President has strongly hinted that he is very much willing to remain in frontline Russian politics as the Prime Minister. The way the Russian strongman presented himself to [...]