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09:40 24/03/2014China, Crimea and PashtunistanAt the center of the simultaneous tumult faced by both Afghanistan and Pakistan stands the ultimate taboo: Pashtunistan.
09:26 22/03/2014Malaysia flight riddle: How can a passenger plane go missing in the age of universal surveillance?No less than 26 countries, 43 ships, 58 planes, the FBI, Interpol, and special services are all looking for the missing Boeing – a situation which looks increasingly like a crime series.
16:42 21/03/2014Turkish President Gul condemns Twitter banPresident Abdullah Gul has challenged a ban on Twitter in Turkey after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to "wipe out" the micro-blogging service, the BBC reported.
09:36 21/03/2014The New Silk Road: China looks West, Turkey looks EastWith many international crises looming, China doesn’t seems to have lost its entrepreneurial spirit and is working hard at reviving the old Silk Road transportation project.
17:26 20/03/2014World’s happiest people live on Caribbean islandsAccording to sociologist Aharon Adibekyan, the formula of happiness is “To be able to overcome difficulties.”
15:46 20/03/2014Early marriage is still urgent problem in AzerbaijanIn Azerbaijani regions not attending school is a common thing for girls; this is a serious social problem, stated Novella Jafaroglu, the head of the "Women's rights" society, during a roundtable...
09:35 20/03/2014Tomb of Sulaiman Shah: Will Turkey now invade Syria?Turkey has all but abandoned its much-vaunted zero-problems-with-neighbors policy, and has even at times been close to intervene militarily.
09:26 19/03/2014Connecting the dots: Missing Malaysia Airlines plane a terror attack aimed at China?While the terror angle behind the missing Malaysia Airline Boeing 777 plane is being probed, there are several questions which, though unanswered yet, can help in piecing together this jigsaw puzzle.
18:21 18/03/2014Media on E. Aslanov, chief propagandist of Azerbaijan, dismissed from presidential administration: dropout, Imam, traitorIn Azerbaijan a scandal has broken out over the members of Nur sect in the Presidential Administration of the republic.
09:39 18/03/2014Remembering Berkin Elvan: A wake-up call for Tayyip Erdogan?"Berkin Elvan, then aged 14, was on his way to buy bread for his family when he got caught up in the street battles in Istanbul last June [2013]."
09:37 17/03/2014Tough choice: Crisis in Ukraine pushes China into limboFrom the first days Ukrainian turmoil has gone beyond Ukrainian borders attracting more and more countries, parties involved and influencing various aspects of relations between nations.
09:33 15/03/2014EU stagnation: Why Soros says the Euro threatens the UnionPhilosopher, plutocrat, poseur or perfectionist investor, George Soros has a remarkable pedigree for prophecy. His latest assessment? The euro may kill the EU itself.
09:27 14/03/2014Good vs Evil: The false god guiding Western foreign policyIronically indeed, a war in Crimea in the mid-19th century (with the following Boer War) was the modern starting point of Western propaganda.
18:41 13/03/2014Rebecca Vincent: British MPs attend Azerbaijani events turning a blind eye to human rights situationBritish MPs willingly accept invitations to the events organized by Azerbaijan turning a blind eye to human rights situation in the country.
09:40 13/03/2014Tayyip's tapes: Muslim democracy, sleaze and briberyThe Turkish corruption saga, which also appears to be the chronicle of a behind-the-scenes power struggle, gets more convoluted by the day.
09:36 12/03/2014Saudi chameleon: What next, jihad in Crimea?A week ago, Minister of Information and Culture Abdelaziz Khoja proclaimed that the House of Saud “renews its firm position condemning terrorism in all its forms.”
09:40 11/03/2014Armenian ExceptionalismSome might see Aronian's hyper-competitiveness as a legacy of his particular cultural inheritance. His mother is Armenian and his father is Jewish - which was also true of Garry Kasparov.
09:41 10/03/2014Starved & evicted: Britain’s poor now treated worse than animalsA vast underclass of between 5 and 10 million people has been created in Britain of desperate, destitute and now-dying people.
16:16 08/03/2014Armenian captive Arsen Khojoyan’s family in extremely bad conditionArsen Khojoyan is a distant relative of 77-year-old Mamikon Khojoyan who was recently released from Azeri captivity and was tortured while being held captive.
09:46 08/03/2014There won’t be any war over UkraineNeither Russia nor the West is contemplating going to war over the current crisis in Ukraine.