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The relations between Turkey and Syria, more accurately, Bashar al Assad’s regime, have reached to the extreme tension level. As it’s known on June 22, the Turkish Phantom recon jet, which took off from Turkish Erkhach, Malatia military base, in one and half hours disappeared from the view of Turkish radars on the border with …

The British analysis center Chatham House has published an interesting report entitled “The Long Goodbye: Waning Russian Influence in the South Caucasus and Central Asia”, which covers in details Russia’s policy in South Caucasus and Central Asia, as well as the political, economic and cultural influence on those regions. We are more interested in the …

– Recently in the north of Lebanon, in Tripoli serious collisions occurred between the supports of the Syrian opposition – Sunni Muslims and supports of the regime of the Syrian president Bashar al-Asadi – the Alavines. Later the conflict moved to Beirut. Can we say that the situation that is currently taking place in Syria …

The European parliament has adopted a resolution calling on the Russian government to cancel the results of the parliamentary elections on December 4 and hold new free elections. In the same resolution the European MPs are calling on Russia to register all opposition parties before the next elections and investigate all electoral violations on December …

“Armenia and Azerbaijan have concentrated 80% of their armed forces at the borders. To be honest, Armenia’s potential in terms of developing their army potential is limited, and it mainly relies on Russia and is armed with Russian weapons,” said Vladimir Ivanov, military expert and academician on security and protection of public order, in an …

Thomas de Waal, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace wrote an article in the National Interest magazine about the expected development in the Russian Federation. In his “Vladimir Putin and South Caucasus” de Waal writes that Russia’s neighbors are asking what the heralded return of Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin means …

The Russian Nezavisimaya Gazeta has published information concerning the recent visit of The US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Tina Keidenau to South Caucasus. After visiting Georgia and Azerbaijan she also visited Armenia. Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes that in the three countries of South Caucasus Tina Keidenau was planning to meet …

A new mediator will appear in the complex region where relations between subjects are complicated, tangled or there are no relations at all. She will undertake unraveling this knot of contradictions, eliminating mutual hatred, inseminating amity and love. And everything will be settled gradually. The mediator will start operating from next week. First she will …

The former Russian prime-minister, member of the Russian scientific presidency, and a Russian leading scientist of Eastern countries Yevgeni Primakov held a press-conference on Monday, which among other issues addressed also the issue of new waves of revolutions in many countries in the world. Meanwhile he emphasized that he did not represent the opinions of …

In Moscow another act of terrorism took place. In Domodedovo airport a suicide bomber exploded himself and the people in the arrival zone. The funerals of the victims will be organized free of charge in Moscow and in the vicinity of Moscow by the Russian government. Their families will also receive 2 million rubles, the …