Tariq Saeedi Ashgabat, 10 December (nCa) — Leaving Putin at the centre of CIS picture, let’s shift the focus for awhile to the security aspects of the summit. Of the 20 documents signed after the summit, the following 7 are related to some aspects of security: Agreement on creation of council of financial intelligence agencies […]
Archives for 2012
Саммит СНГ – 2
Тарик Саиди Ашгабат, 7 декабря 2012 (nCa) — Сегодня мы начинаем публикацию серии статей, посвященных Путину, человеку, который весьма вероятно пробудет в Кремле до 2024 года. Прежде чем обратиться к выступлению Путина, давайте ненадолго остановимся на декларации саммита, которая называется Ашгабадской Декларацией. Проект Декларации был подготовлен по инициативе президента Туркменистана и одобрен в ходе встречи […]
CIS Summit – 2
Tariq Saeedi Ashgabat, 7 December 2012 (nCa) — We started this series with sharp focus on Putin, the man who is quite likely to stay in Kremlin up to 2024. Before looking at the speech of Putin, let’s turn briefly to the summit declaration, officially titled Ashgabat Declaration. The declaration was drafted at the initiative […]
Саммит СНГ – 1
Тарик Саиди Ашгабат, 6 декабря 2012 (nCa) — Повестка дня и традиции собрали всех лидеров в Ашгабаде для участия в саммите, но у всех на уме был только один вопрос: Как ходит Путин? Вопрос был решен, когда вместо обычно уверенно шагающего Путина появился хромающий Путин. Он вышел из автомобиля примерно в 14:30, опоздав на тридцать […]
CIS Summit – 1
Tariq Saeedi Ashgabat, 6 December 2012 (nCa) — Agenda and tradition brought them to Ashgabat for the summit but the question uppermost in everyone’s mind was: How does Putin walk? The question was answered when instead of a usually bouncy Putin a limping Putin emerged from the car at about 14:30, some thirty minutes late […]
Science and Sortilege in Today’s Political Economics
Ben Tanoborn We are just a decade-short from a century since Balliol College (Oxford) introduced interdisciplinary studies in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) as a modern alternative to the study of the Classics. Academic programs in much of the world, adopting the granting of degrees which combined the study of these three fields, have been […]
Pattie Mallette Refused to Abort her Son Justin Bieber
Clemente Ferrer “I only knew that I couldn’t. I just knew that I had to keep him and do everything as best as I could. I didn’t know how I was going to do it, but what I did know was that I couldn’t, that I couldn’t abort. I had to give the best of […]
Do You Know the History of the Afghani Currency?
The history of a country is more often than not represented also by the many twists and turns that its national currency must endure, as well. When the country is also racked by decades of turmoil, economic strife, and foreign occupations, the stories become entwined even deeper still. Afghanistan is one nation where this correlation […]
Letter from General Aslam Beg
From: General Mirza Aslam Beg Subject: Supreme Court Judgment on ACM Asghar Khan’s Petition Last night, talking to the ARY TV Channel’s programme “Eleventh Hour”, I said that after appointing Lt Gen M. Asad Durrani as Ambassador to Germany, an Affidavit was obtained from him, naming the politicians, alleged to have received the money from […]