Yuri SIMONYAN

Broken cars of the subway, broken jaws, several people in the hotels, many others in the police… These are the consequences of the super cup championship of Russia’s BKMA and Spartak soccer match, which took place on Saturday. Everybody predicted that it’s going to be a tense match. Besides this match the warring opponents played …

Moscow showed precaution when accepting the announcement made by Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan about Yerevan discussing the possibility of joining the Trans-Caucasian gas pipeline. Certain Russian political activists perceived the minister’s announcement, which corresponds to the current world tendencies of keeping energetic security and diversification of resources, as a result of that, as betrayal …

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press conference held last week was in the center of attention of the international community. This is definitely a standard and there is no need to explain why. Putin wasn’t maneuvering and answered to all questions. Then, when the conference ended, many of the president’s answers were forgotten. Yes, he did …

The next Georgian-Russian scandal would rarely be focused on if it didn’t have an “atomic component”. Scandals and crises have become such an inseparable part of interstate relations that it’s already impossible to imagine those relations without them. But the “atomic story”, excuse me, is not like the phony wine or “Borzhomi” or even the …

RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan has left for Moscow to participate in the negotiations over the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, planned on January 23. Because of purely objective reasons there were no particular hopes that the negotiations would be resumed. Recently the President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan announced that the intensive negotiations will …

Judging from certain signs, 2007 may be the last year for the CIS. The CIS gave up on effectiveness of an interstate alliance in politics a long time ago and is now giving up on economic relations benefiting countries. If we leave political correctness aside, we can say that there was only one thing that …

Currently, Moscow and Tbilisi don’t have state relations. Let’s not even talk about relations at the political level. Just the fact that the two accuse each other of immorality in foreign policy and the incompatibility of mentalities at the level of foreign ministries is enough. But we can talk about economic relations, although there is …

During the first CIS and Baltic countries’ mass media forum, deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov talked about Russia’s principles for creating intergovernmental relations with foreign countries. It turns out that Moscow considers the market economy principle as a cornerstone. “Russia trades as in Russia, as well as abroad based on the …

Late last week, there was no longer any fortune-telling (cards, coffee residue, etc) about whether or not Georgian President Mikhail Sahakashvili would leave for Minsk to participate in the CIS countries’ summit. While celebrating the third anniversary of the victorious “Revolution of Roses”, the president announced to journalists that he will make the CIS countries …

Last Sunday, the unrecognized republic of South Osetia de facto conducted presidential elections and a Referendum on Self-Determination. Both the elections and the referendum turned out to be a “dual” process. The supporters of the de facto current president of South Osetia, Edward Kokoyta, voted for him and the formal independence of the republic. The …