- 00:23 03/09/2010
The Second World War formally ended on September 2, 1945 with Japan's surrender. There is a popular saying that a war is over when the last soldiers killed are buried. With WWII, however, things aren't so simple.
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- 17:56 02/09/2010
Oil fever could strike the Arctic sooner than expected and is likely to be accompanied by a host of problems. A U.K. rival to BP, Cairn Energy, announced last week: "First well in Greenland provides early indication of working hydrocarbon system" in the Beaufort Sea.1
- 14:11 02/09/2010
The first cultural, economic and political ties between Georgia and Kievan Rus date back to the 12th century. Both Orthodox Christian states, they established regular relations in the 16th-18th centuries.2
- 12:48 02/09/2010
In the 9th-12th centuries, most of the Kievan Rus lands were part of the early feudal Russian State. The Kiev, Chernigov, Halych, Vladimir-Volhynia and other independent principalities emerged in Southwest Rus in the 12th century, and the Halych-Volhynian principality toward the end of the 12th century.1
- 12:29 02/09/2010
In the 1840s and the 1850s, two intellectual movements, namely, the Slavophiles and the Westernizers, emerged in Russian society and philosophical thought. The Slavophiles advocated Russia’s unique way of development, whereas the Westernizers insisted on the need to follow in the wake of Western civilization and imitate the Western socio-political system, civil society and culture.
- 12:23 02/09/2010
Polish history is closely intertwined with the history of Russia.
- 16:33 01/09/2010
It took U.S. President Barack Obama 15 minutes to "turn the page" on the Iraq war, which lasted seven years and five months, and announce Iraq's sovereignty and the withdrawal of nearly all U.S. troops from Iraq.
- 23:20 31/08/2010
The most interesting aspect of the news that there are CIA agents in the Afghan government is how quickly the story died in the media, when by all rights it should have prompted a month-long scandal.
- 17:47 31/08/2010
The completion of the summer political season was marked by another flare-up in Russian-Ukrainian gas relations.
- 12:42 27/08/2010
The biography of larger-than-life characters, such as Mother Teresa, always contain seemingly insignificant facts that give us a clue as to what makes them exceptional. But often these clues are hard to notice.
- 21:57 26/08/2010
Russia officially recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia on August 26, 2008.
- 14:31 26/08/2010
It is easy to find an excuse to comment on this subject. Just open up any American newspaper these days. The Washington Post's lead column, for example, is entitled "Toxic Brew for the GOP."1
- 00:22 26/08/2010
U.S. President Barack Obama will return from his ten-day vacation next week, and on his return he is likely to find the nation polarized along religious lines as well as politically. This is the case ahead of any major election in the United States. This time round however, the political temperature is soaring over the prospect of all seats in the House and a third of those in the Senate coming up for grabs in November's mid-term elections.
- 22:34 24/08/2010
Rankings in every conceivable category are becoming increasingly popular with the media and their audiences.
- 22:04 24/08/2010
The recent decision made at the Collective Security Treaty Organization summit for presidency of this organization to pass to Belarus in December 2010 came as a surprise to observers.
- 20:34 23/08/2010
Last Saturday, Iran saw the physical startup of the first power generating unit of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. This never-ending construction project has long become the talk of the town, brought up anytime the Iranian nuclear program is discussed. It is finally nearing completion in a highly complicated political environment.1
- 23:42 19/08/2010
Fifty years ago, Russia made a huge stride in its quest to send a man into orbit. On August 20, 1960, reporters crowded around two small but sprightly dogs, trying to get a good picture of the triumphant space travelers.
- 17:33 19/08/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Armenia Thursday evening on a two-day visit. His agenda: the Russian military base, ongoing discussion on the “frozen” Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and a visit to the genocide memorial. But one thing that was not made a priority was the environmental crisis currently gripping Armenia.
- 23:18 17/08/2010
Recent floods in Pakistan and in Central Europe, as well as wildfires caused by record-high summer temperatures in Russia, have prompted the European Union to consider setting up a pan-European emergencies agency. Brussels has suggested this several times before when large-scale natural disasters struck the European continent.
