Rethinking the Resetting
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have declared that the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) is ready and is expected to be signed in the near future.
// Feb. 10, 2010 - 08:40 GMT
Medvedev, Obama should Beware of the START Pitfalls
Washington and Moscow will restart talks with Washington on a new arms control treaty on Monday February 1. START was one of the very few foreign policy issued mentioned by President Obama in his State of the Union Address on January 27th.
// Feb. 01, 2010 - 09:15 GMT
Reset the OSCE
The year of 2010 will open a new chapter in the post-Cold-War history. As the first post-soviet state Kazakhstan will assume the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and try to promote it to its previous rank of a main security organization in Europe.
// Jan. 18, 2010 - 09:08 GMT
Kremlin two-step: modernize or marginalize
The real issue is not whether the noises that Putin and Medvedev make suggest real divergence, and a potential for rivalry, but whether there is daylight at the end of the tandem. Or, to put it differently, whether they choose modernization or marginalization.
// Jan. 14, 2010 - 07:41 GMT
A Nonstarter on Arms Control
The Obama administration has failed to complete the negotiation of a treaty to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start), which expired on Dec. 5. The two superpowers are now in unchartered waters.
// Jan. 13, 2010 - 06:50 GMT
Peaceful atom: providing safe nuclear energy development in the Middle East
The Middle Eastern states are actively seeking nuclear power. (By Anton Khlopkov, Director of the Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS)
// Dec. 17, 2009 - 08:16 GMT