THE RUBRIC'S NECESSARY PREFACE
NUMBER of MAGAZINE: 28 (2) 2007ã.
The HEADING: POLITICS
AUTHORS: Nikitin Oleg
1. Upon the termination of Russia's presidency in the G8, our partners' vague suspicions and obvious offences flourished in full. In the winter early spring, the users of the Inosmi and Inopressa web-sites (where not the most tough assessments are being put out) in the Runet might be amazed with the abundance of Western media accusations and frank indignations addressed to Russia, the Kremlin administration, and President Putin personally. It is not hard to guess, that the majority of the articles on Russia put out by the web-sites would be editorials. This is traditional tactics of not to endanger foreign media own correspondents in Moscow. 2. Nowadays, it is not by chance the media persons' attention is absorbed with the developments in Ukraine, in Kirghizia, where the scenarios known in the Eastern Europe and Russia are being repeated by virtue of historical inertia. In this context, it is easier to comprehend the Hungarian political forces' fighting over the popular credit within their post-Communist society. The velvet revolutions, perhaps, have just eliminated the formal ideological ties of the countries that experienced them with their Communistic past. Now, the time coming to reassess the deep socio- economic break-ups of the eve of 1990s. 3. Russia's returning into the economic and political space it had been ousted from upon the collapse of the USSR, becomes actual and therefore discussable occurrence. Russia if restoring its influence in the Arab and Muslim world. It seems second to impossible to find solutions for the outdated and newly-arised problems in the Middle East without its balanced pragmatic policy.
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