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Establishing Long Term Cooperation with the Russian Bear

The main question that many leaders in NATO and the EU are asking themselves after Russia’s adventure into Georgia is how to stop Russian forces from invading another country at will. But looking forward, beyond the recent incident in Georgia, the West has a bigger question to ask itself. The question is whether or not [...]

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Obama On Russia And Around

Since he was elected as next President of the United States on the historical Tuesday, Obama scheduled several meetings with world leaders including President Medvedev of Russia. Two leaders, both relatively young and active, will talk various subjects on mutual disarmament over the next several years. Here are two issues on which Obama commented on [...]

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Beyond Right or Wrong: The Russian-Georgian Conflict

Given the freedom of speech, I write this article NOT from the ANTI-Russian perspective. I aware that many civilians (2000 plus at the time of writing) have died in face of the Russian attacks. Some of my friends freed Georgia, while some still stay in the country. At the moment, Tbilisi declared the cease fire, [...]

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Fistful Happiness

Right now she is seated so close to me that I can feel her breath on my skin. In this blood freezing winter, I can’t resist longer against her heat-pumping eyes. She has been glaring at me for quite some time now and I am burning in the warmth of her intentions. I might have [...]

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NATO Expansion – The Impact of Ukrainian and Georgian Membership

NATO has been expanding. Many of the former Soviet-bloc countries are currently supporting the seemingly-unilateral American operation in Iraq. Furthermore, President Bush recently emphasized the necessity of wider and greater NATO cooperation in Iraq and Afghanistan, in which many assumed that Bush hoped to include Ukraine and Georgia into NATO in the near future. Russia [...]

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Putin and Kursk – Future of the Russian Navy

Putin is no longer President of the Russian Federation, but he will be remembered as the leader of Russia at least for the next 20 years. Regardless how the Western media accuses him, Russians seem to love a strong leader who leads them from the misery of the post-Communist ruin. However, Putin had two big [...]