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by FarEasterner
Announcement by Dmitry Medvedev, spokesman of all-powerful Russian PM Vladimir Putin, of recognition of independence of Georgian rebel regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, dramatically raised the stakes in the ongoing Western-Russian conflict. Russia signalled to the West she is ready for a fight and threw gloves into faces of Western leaders. Diplomatic moves such as recognition of new states are usually irreversible. For revoking such decisions is possible only after complete defeat. Political, military, economic failure.
How Russia sees her chances in new confrontation with the West? Read more... (2 comments, 1632 words in story) by FarEasterner
Few thoughts on developments in Pakistan.
So president Musharraf finally buckled under government's pressure and resigned in televised swan song which ended with appropriate farewell "Bye-Bye Pakistan". Yet another Bush's foreign policy failure - after 9 years in power and siphoning tens of blns of dollars of American aid, Mr Osama bin Laden is still free and roams somewhere in this South Asian country. Mush's peaceful exit should not come as a total surprise to anybody as Pakistani army apparently refused to entertain his desire to dissolve parliament and impose president's rule. What questions now raised in the region? Read more... (2 comments, 705 words in story) by FarEasterner
This is my take on situation on war between Russia and Georgia over the latter's separatist regions and its consequences for antagonists and Russia-Western relations.
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I am writer (history and guidebooks), living in self-imposed ;) exile in India, recently I was asked by diplomatic magazine to write an article about Tibetan question.
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So presidency of George Bush Junior is nearing its end. Some say it was catastrophic. Americans may breathe easier and hope for better administration and better management of international affairs by whatever administration takes over next January. What chances are for significant change in atmosphere and content of international politics?
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This is collection of pictures taken from 2003 to 2008 in different parts of Indian subcontinent.
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Hi. Someone from here asked me to crosspost my diary here, originally it was posted in European Tribune, as was Part II and Part III.
This diary about my journey last october to one of the extremely remote places on earth - Ladakh. Lha Dags, the land of snow passes, is situated at the extreme north of Indian subcontinent and is separated from my temporary abode in Dharamsala only by mountain ridge. Yet there are not many people around who can boast they visited it - for this ridge is the Great Himalayan. Read more... (3 comments, 1701 words in story) |
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