Obama’s smart strategic move on target

U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to scrap a planned anti-missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic on Sept. 17 was a bold gesture that may help improve relations between the United States and Russia. It will also have positive repercussions for European peace and security. Many Western European governments, which had been cool from the outset to a unilateral U.S. project they regarded as gratuitiously provocative towards Russia, greeted the American decision with relief.

Yushchenko’s proposed Constitutional reform: Ukraine’s Greatest Threat to Democracy

Whilst Yushchenko spouses the words of democracy his actions and policies are far from being democratic or constitutional.

In a desperate attempt to regain relevance Yushchenko wants his version of the constitution to be put to referendum at the next Presidential election in which he hopes to control the agenda.

New York Times report questions Georgia’s role in Ossetian war

The New York Times has published an article which questions Georgia’s account of the conflict in South Ossetia in August this year. Based on the observations of OSCE monitors, it reports that Georgia was not acting defensively, but started the shelling of civilians in the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinval.

Nihilism on high

When leaders don’t even obey the law, what hope is there for the rule of law?

It seems like everyone has stepped over laws and the Constitution lately – the president, the prime minister, judges and parliament deputies. They employed tactics that makes one wonder whether these politicians have any understanding of their role in society: to protect the Constitution, to pass laws, to referee disputes.

Yushchenko hammered in the last nail in the Orange revolution’s coffin and democracy in Ukraine

“The Democratic Coalition in name alone was destroyed by one thing – by human ambition. By the human ambition of a single person. By thirst for power, divergence of values, priority of personal interests over national interests.”

Ukraine’s Prime-minister Calls for Early Presidential Elections

Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Yulia Timosheko, says an early parliamentary election could take place alongside a presidential vote. The statement came amid the country’s third major political crisis in four years, this time caused by the collapse of the governing ‘Orange’…

Georgia violated UN charter – UN Assembly chief

Georgia commited an act of aggression and violated the UN charter by invading South Ossetia, the incoming President of the UN General Assembly said at the opening of its 63rd session.

Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, a former foreign minister of Nicaragua, pledged…

U.S. Senators blame Russia for conflict

The Georgia-South Ossetia conflict has once again come under the spotlight at the U.S. Senate. Although the Senators continue to point the finger at Moscow as an “aggressor” some say Russia and its stance are difficult to ignore.

With no clear…

Ukraine’s governing coalition pronounced dead

The ruling coalition which wrested power from pro-Russian Victor Yanukovich in the 2004 Orange Revolution has been dissolved by the Ukrainian parliement. On Saturday a ten-day deadline to restore the coalition between former close allies Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yushchenko…

Russia to sign first agreements with breakaway countries

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is due to pay his first visit to South Ossetia, since Russia officially recognised its independence. On Sunday he travelled to Sukhum, capital the other newly recognised state, Abkhazia.

Lavrov discussed candidates for Russian and Abkhaz…