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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