Monday, 29 June 2009


Iran’s crisis and Ali Khamenei, Ali Reza Eshraghi

Would it possible to legally remove Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from his selected position as supreme leader of Iran? Technically, yes - though in practice this is much harder to achieve.

Ali Reza Eshraghi is a former newspaper editor in Iran. He is...

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Versailles, 1919-2009: a new world order’s legacy, David A Andelman

The real roots of many major recent and current political events - the convulsions surrounding Iran's Islamic regime, the bloody troubles in neighbouring Iraq, the ethnic cleansing and mass murders in the Balkans, even numerous wars and...

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Far East is still far away, Alexei Minin

"So - when's the summit, then?  21-22 May?  Hm-m, more traffic jams!"  I was on the mobile, listening to the slightly sarcastic tones of my younger brother, communications engineer by training but working as a systems...

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Stiffening Moldova's judiciary, Louis O’Neill

Interesting things are afoot in the Republic of Moldova, where a freely elected communist leader who is constitutionally barred from another term after eight years as President nonetheless recently held three top positions simultaneously:  acting...

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