Ihor Slisarenko

“The Nazi criminal Demjanjuk died,” were the headlines in the world media. It is no wonder. The trial has been held. When it was still in progress in Munich I warned our readers: if Demjanjuk suffering from cancer does not live until its end, it will be still possible to loudly...

Immediately after returning from Washington, Israeli Premier Binyamin Netanyahu suddenly began to speak in moderate tone. He said he would still give international sanctions a chance and, therefore, would not be attacking Iran “in the nearest days or weeks.” Incidentally, just a day before, he had...

A month ago Ukrai­nian president Viktor Yanu­ko­vych saw a “sign of hope” in the extra­ordi­nary events of the year in the Arab world and declared it during the traditional an­nual meeting with the heads of foreign embassies on De­cem­ber 16: “It is the symbol of faith in liberty, demo­cracy and...

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano’s latest report [entitled “Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran”] contains certain formulas that appear even more important than the rest of the...

Kyrgyzstan’s ex-Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev won the first round of the presidential election last Sunday. After processing 99 percent of the ballots, the Kyrgyz Central Election Commission announced some 63 percent were in favor of the 55-year-old politician. His number-one rival...

They say in Kazakhstan that political fi-gures who were active in the 1990s are coming back to power, a reference to people who received their posts thanks to te-levision commercials insisting that one should drink Pepsi and learn from the experience of the manufacturer’s country. Kairat Kelimbetov...

After several days and nights of serious riots in Great Britain there started emerging age-old questions, “Who is to blame?” and “What is to be done?” Last but no least, the big question, “How to qualify the rioters: as thugs or hapless individuals?” Prime...

A couple of weeks ago experts asserted that the “democratic wave” running through the Arab world won’t affect Syria, as there are no reasons for mass protest or revolution there. The opposition did not succeed in their attempts to use Facebook to gather malcontents for street...

On December 17 Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old street vendor, attempted self-immolation in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid after police confiscated his produce cart. To hammer in the message about the criminal nature of unauthorized hawking, a policewoman slapped him and spat in his face...

It seems that only indolent observers did not notice that the OSCE summit in Astana at the beginning of December was a quasi-failure. It has been reported that even the final declaration took 10 hours to be adopted, instead of the one and a half hours planned, and all the meetings were held...