Currently Brazil is in very active relationship with the United States. During the last visit to Washington, the president of Brazil, a moderate-left Luiz da Silva and G.Bush discussed, inter alia, a very important problem for the West – alternative energy resources. 

Talks about a war between the United States and Iran have started long time ago, however, the recent publication in one of the (not very well known) Russian newspapers „Argumenty nedeli“ was quite worrying.  The author of the article writes that „according to the Russian military intelligence, armed forces of the United States located in the Persian Gulf have practically finalized preparations for the missile and bomb attacks against Iran“.

After the Orange Revolution Ukraine has become an open stage for competitions of key geopolitical actors. These competitions are a manifestation of long confrontation between the pro-Russian and pro-Western representatives of the Ukraine political elite. They are personified by two representatives of opposite political lines – V.Yushchenko and V.Yanukovich.

Belarus and Venezuela. These states differ nearly by all parameters except one – both of them are governed by the politicians dictators. Their increasing friendly relations have been observed for nearly one year, and cooperation in the sphere of energy becomes the keystone of this amiability.

Elections in Turkmenia and the beginning of the empire of Gurbanguly Berdymuhammedov are interesting in that this is a good opportunity to see new political faces of the country and their political actions.

The fact that the great Turkmenbashi has not left any successors is a characteristic feature of tyranny.

The region of Northern countries has common cultural identity. The following elements of the Northern identity could be specified: geographic location, historic relationship of the countries and societies, linguistic similarity of languages, Lutheran form of Christianity, participation in various cooperation activities of Northern countries, legal and administrative tradition, equal opportunities etc.

Disagreements of India and Pakistan are a real mystery for the international community which is unable to puzzle it out since 1947. The countries have signed declarations on strategic partnership with the United States, including, inter alia, the commitment to promote democracy, peace and security.

Development of outer space policy of the United States is predetermined by two competing visions. One of them is based on the current legal regime of outer space, highlighting the importance of international cooperation as the best instrument for balancing different interests and preventing from dominance of one state in outer space. The consequence of this vision is participation of the United States in the construction of an international outer space station together with Russia, EU, Japan and Canada.

The exploration and use of the outer space....shall be for peaceful purposes and shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interest of all the countries, irrespective of their degree of economic or scientific development. The prevention of an arms race in outer space would avert a grave danger for international peace and security.

Georgia, although declaring its intention to ally with the Euro Atlantic structures, is attributed to the region of Transcaucasia and Central Asia of a geo-strategic zone of Eurasia.  Formally it can be considered as falling under the influence of Russia which is seeking to dominate in this geopolitical space.

During the recent decades, quite many radicals conveying strong political ambitions appeared in the Western Europe, and later in the post-Soviet space.

The dates, related to Hitler and the Russian anarchists or Bolsheviks have been ignored all over the world and especially in the European countries.

When considering the current situation in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, it becomes clear that situation of these countries in terms of democracy is different. When the above countries began the transition to democracy after the fall of the Soviet Union, their starting positions were equal – these positions can be identified according to attitudes declared by the then political elite of the countries.

On Sunday the French President Jacques Chirac said that he was not going to run for president in the presidential elections which will take place on 22 April. His decision to withdraw from active politics opens new opportunities for a new generation of politicians.

The rules of procedure set out by the Kremlin in 2004 on appointing governors, are valid for Chechnya as for the other Russian federal subjects: governors initially are proposed by the president, but for show are approved by local parliaments. Such a procedure was criticized by both the Russian politicians and foreign experts, however, it is already in power.

Abkhazia is a territory of the post-soviet space, which is de facto independent state without the official international recognition. It has its own authority bodies and economy, and citizens of the region are provided with social services. Officially Abkhazia is considered part of Georgia.

For effective complex defence of Latvia, the establishment of a permanent division of the National Armed Forces has started in Latgale, reported the official website of the Ministry of Defence.

On 13 January a concert "Together to the victory" was held in Lithuania, where the audience decided to support Ukraine's defence and donated 110 thousand Euros.

Alexander Lukashenko on 9 January signed a decree № 8 "On the establishment of visa-free entry and exit of foreign nationals." The document establishes visa-free entry to Belarus for a period not exceeding 5 days at the entrance through the checkpoint "National Airport Minsk" for citizens of 80 countries, - reported the press service of the President of Belarus.