Deportation of Veselin Vlahovic, who is accused of war crimes in former Yugoslavia, from Spain to Bosnia, became one of the main news of the last week. A native of Montenegro, Veselin Vlahovic is accused of murdering over a hundred people, as well as rape and torture. In addition to war crimes he was involved in robberies and burglaries in Spain...
Russia, Greece, Iran and Iraq will officially not be posing any threat to Turkey soon. Turkish media said that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan intends to considerably revise the national security strategy in October 2010. The head of the Turkish government will reportedly exclude the above-mentioned countries from the list of external threats.The...
Switzerland is ready to challenge European traditions again. The controversy about the prohibition on the construction of minarets in this country had hardly subsided before the small nation prepared another surprise to the tolerant Europe. The Swiss started collecting signatures to conduct the referendum to reinstate death penalty
On August 23, the world marks another anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (signed in 1939) against the background of historical speculations. Traditionally, the USSR is named one of the primary instigators of the start of WWII. There are no doubts about the fact that the pact was highly profitable for those who signed it. One should not pay...
Yesterday, the first group of Bulgarian and Romanian gypsies residing on the territory of France illegally was deported to their homelands. Deportation of the gypsies is based on the decision taken in late July by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Based on the information that nearly 200 camps of gypsies who arrived from Bulgaria and Romania are...
August 7th marked 15 years since the destruction of the Republic of Serbian Krajina in Croatia by the Croatian army. Thousands of Serbs were killed, about 500,000 fled their homes. The West played its role in the tragedy of the Croatian Serbs too. Western leaders could stop the massacre, but preferred to encourage it instead. There are just a few...
On August 5th, the International Criminal Court in The Hague saw the most beautiful witness in its entire history. British supermodel Naomi Campbell paid a visit to this institution. A girlfriend of a Russian businessman testified in the case of one of the most outspoken politicians of our time, the former Liberian President Charles Taylor. It is...
Exclusive Interview between PRAVDA.Ru* and UNIFEM Chief of Governance for Peace and Security Ms. Anne-Marie Goetz, who states that the way we think about gender and war has changed in the last decade, although a lot more needs to be done. What is the situation regarding women’s rights in conflict zones, what can Governments do, and fundamentally...
The logic of the West, especially of the USA, regarding Nazi manifestations in the Baltic States is very strange. A US ambassador to Latvia laid flowers to the monument of war victims in Riga on Victory Day, but his colleague in Estonia delivered a speech on July 31 praising SS meetings and labeling Nazi criminals as fighters against communist...
Another scandal broke out in Oslo, Norway, regarding the objectivity of the Nobel Committee's while choosing candidates for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. It is not surprising that such an expanded interpretation of the criteria for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize allows for nominating the most exotic competitors for this award. In 2005, U.S...
Lately, NATO countries have not been having luck with keeping particularly sensitive information secret. Following the U.S. that allowed the leak of a wide range of data regarding the war in Afghanistan not intended for public use, the Czech Republic made a serious blunder. The scandal regarding the leak that occurred a week ago with the main ally...
The European Union professes to follow an ethical foreign policy. Yet quite how ethical is paying the money EU residents pay their governments in taxation to Morocco, a country with a proven record of torture, to fish in the territorial waters of Western Sahara, which Morocco annexed illegally?
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made a decision to shut down at least 200 gypsy camps and expel their inhabitants. This measure, first of all, will affect the gypsies from Bulgaria and Romania. The French President decided to take this radical step after the events of July 17 and 18 in the town of Saint-Aignan that caused a wide resonance in...