Magazine 1/2008
DownloadThe year 2008 was proclaimed the Year of Russia in Bulgaria. Annually, Russian diplomacy strives to strengthen Moscow’s influence in some countries in this way. Although this way of bilateral contacts intensification may remind of Soviet-style campaigns, the results of the visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to Bulgarian capital Sofia on 17th and 18th January attest that, in contrast to Ukraine or Belarus..
Magazine 1/2007
DownloadPresidential elections in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) are going to take place on 19 July 2007. 5 people were nominated for presidential candidates. Professor of Arcakh State University Vanik Avanesian is focusing on scientists working on the premises of university. The president of National Service of Security of Nagorno-Karabakh (NSB) Bako Sahakian has larger political support…
Magazine 1/2007
DownloadThe Russian political scientist Sergei Aleksandrovych Markov (born 1958) works as the director of the Institute for Political Studies in Moscow in the present. He is at the same time the head of the Foreign Political Department of the influential internet portal Strane.Ru which is close to current governmental and presidential circles. He is a lecturer at the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University…
Magazine 1/2007
DownloadA relatively short time ago, the Embassy of Georgia with the seat in Bratislava was opened. Mr Nikoloz Nikolozishvili is the Georgian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Slovak Republic since October 3, 2006. He acts at the same time as the Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia., We have discussed with His Excellency the current state of the relations between Slovakia…
Magazine 1/2007
DownloadParliamentary elections in Armenia took place on 12.5.2007. 131 seats are distributed in the elections; 90 seats according to parties’ candidate lists and 41 in one-mandate districts. The minimum limit of votes for political parties to obtain seats in parliament is 5 percent and 7 percent for coalitions. 22 political parties and 1 coalition took part in the elections. Almost 60 % of registered voters…
Magazine 1/2007
DownloadThere is no doubt that the USA are most potentially and in the future endangered country of the world by some not very friendly countries. The USA themselves earmarked some countries as the “evil´s axle” or “naughty countries” naming Iran, Northern Korea but also Syria. The USA by spreading of ideas and practise of freedom and democracy in the world, often use fire and sword, usually…
Magazine 1/2007
DownloadProblem of Nagorno-Karabakh has historical roots in the ancient azer-armenian antagonism. Military conflict which had begun in 1988, culminated during the collapse of the Soviet Union when Karabakh took advantage of the Law on debarkation from the Soviet Union in order to announce its independence. The problem became one of international issues by creation of the Minsk Group at the Conference…
Magazine 2/2006
DownloadThe political scene in Lebanon has been stormy in recent months. Frankly, it is not just a matter of the recent months. It is the result of long-lasting problems in Lebanese society, which have culminated after a relatively short calm period. Besides several internal factors badly affecting the political life in Lebanon (particularly from the Muslim point of view, the antiquated as well as unjust system of the division…
Magazine 2/2006
DownloadAfter the political wing of Hamas won the Palestinian elections last year, new political or even military conflicts between the Jewish state and the new Palestinian government, considered by some Jewish officials to be terrorist, were taken into account. But it was Lebanon rather than Hamas who was in battle with Israel from July 12 to the half of August 2006 – in particular the radical Hezbollah…
Magazine 1/2006
DownloadThe events of March 24 opened a number of problems, either the ones that increased gradually throughout the former regime, or new ones that represent risks for the stability of the small republic. One of the fiercest problems is the untrasparent idea of the present Kyrgyz elites as for the position of the country in relation to world superpowers and to other influential states in region of Central Asia…
