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26/07/10 | UNITED NATIONS AGAINST DRUG MAFIA. Russian functionary is to head the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

We can hardly say that the Russian official was appointed to such high-ranked post by a chance. Mind that it is Russia that has recently become undoubted leader of the emerging world-wide coalition against the spread of drugs with its principle stronghold in Afghanistan. More than 90% of drugs that come to the world market are produced there.

12/07/10 | THERE’S A CHANCE OF LEAVING EURO-COMMISSION HOMELESS. It’s time for her to move from Brussels

Flemish-Walloon "divorce suit" may pass in peace, but it wouldn’t be emotionally painful — first of all, thanks to the "no man’s Brussels" that remains the third federal unit of Belgium for now. Perhaps, Euro-Commission and Euro-Parliament should start looking for the new city for their head-quarters if they wouldn’t like to witness the sharing of property named "Brussels".

05/07/10 | WAR IN AFGHANISTAN: Will the sum change if we switch the summands’ places?

"Occupation" — is a double-edged term and applying it to Russia is fraught with the risks of hearing the same accusations in reply. Note that U. S. administration may hear them not from the Kremlin itself, but rather from the citizens of the very countries that America is trying to "bring to the democracy and progress". "Person of the Commander-in-Chief — whether it’s McChrystal or Petraeus — doesn’t matter" — said the "Taliban" representatives. Our position is crystal clear: we’re going to fight occupants until they’re out of our country.

22/06/10 | KYRGYZSTAN: BLACK HOLE OF MIDDLE ASIA. Vacuum of power, emerged after the color revolutions of 2005 is filled with chaos now

Today’s ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan are actually nothing new in the essence. Similar event used to take place in the 90s, though the authorities managed to settle them down, or — putting it right — "freeze them for the time being". Today, however, the national antipathy was multiplied by the social collapse and the anarchy that reigns over the republic.

20/06/10 | ESTONIA: Syndrome of inertial Rusophobia

Inertial Rusophobia is very uncomfortable. According to a proverb it looks like a suitcase without a handle: it’s uncomfortable to carry it but it’s impossible to throw it away. It is highly important now when the issue of lifting visa regime between the EU and Russia is on agenda. The nationalists lose a subsequent trump card which they used to demonstrate with a mood of superiority: well, at least we move in Europe like at home. It turns out to be so: there is not need to join the EU to move freely in it.

17/06/10 | GOOGLE VERSUS CHINA: New round

While Yahoo! just follows the globalization, having provided the popular services to the users, Google actually promotes it. It wishes to "bring the freedom to every home" and is an ally to quite a number of specialized corporations, international and state structures with the certain technological and technical opportunities. "Freedom" at that, turns out to be a total control as long as the information doesn’t vanish but rather stays at Google servers, with the help of technology providing its very circulation.

15/06/10 | POLAND: Presidential elections at the background of collapsing Fourth Republic

Russophobia — grounding at the exclusive relationship with the Baltic states, Yushchenko’s Ukraine and Saakashvili’s Georgia — was the essence of Lech Kaczyński’s Eastern policy. If Jarosław is to become Polish President, the country would have to go through the same ole discords between the government and the President. Russia in this case would have to keep ignoring the person of Polish President, while resetting the relationship with Polish government.

31/05/10 | EURO-UNION POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK. Part III. Neo-fascists at the political scene of the new EU member-states

Lost wars, nostalgia for the majestic greatness, economic and political crises make up perfect grounds for the extremist, nationalistic and purely fascist organizations. It’s only JOBBIK that openly tells the truth about its sympathies towards Nazism but the line that separates the slightly more civilized ultra-rights from the outright Hungarian fascist is so thin that the threat of the European fascistization doesn’t look that unreal anymore.

22/05/10 | EURO-UNION POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK. Part II. West has to re-educate its own xenophobes and racists, rather than Russia

Norway and Holland are considered to be the model countries for the contemporary Europe. The wealthiest, the most tolerant, the most "free" (drugs are legalized, same-sex marriages — too). Correspondent TV-channel offices of these countries are regularly sending the news clips concerning interethnic conflicts, skinheads etc. back home. But few people know that these very "model" countries are having fierce debates regarding prohibition of Koran or deportation of the immigrants into the filtration centers at the African territory.

20/05/10 | EURO-UNION POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK. Part I. Prior to teaching us how to be tolerant, Europeans should have better overcome their own complexes, inherited from the colonial epoch

In the EU countries depicting Russia as a huge hotbed of xenophobia, national hatred and intolerance happened to be a sign of good form. Tendentious coverage of the European media led to the fact that every single national-grounded conflict in Moscow or St. Petersburg is becoming an occasion for the articles and broadcastings. At the same time Europeans prefer not to speak aloud about their own interethnic issues that have long ago become chronic and systematic. Meanwhile, ultra-right, radically nationalistic parties in Europe are not the marginal phenomena anymore, but rather the integral parts of the political systems of their respective countries.