Trans-Atlantic security needs have changed fundamentally in the last two decades. The East-West confrontation has ended, and Moscow now shares many interests with NATO. It is time for the alliance to open its doors to Russia, say German defense experts Volker Ruhe, Klaus Naumann, Frank Elbe and Ulrich Weisser.

// Mar. 09, 2010 - 08:31 GMT

Will Russia gain unprecedented leverage in space and on Earth? Will China build its own competing coalition of manned space efforts?

// Mar. 09, 2010 - 08:24 GMT

Foreign powers are still fighting over the same land, and at times by proxy. And Russia is still struggling for access to a warm water port. It was in fact this very need by Moscow to gain access to warm waters that led to the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets.

// Mar. 09, 2010 - 08:23 GMT

Russia, which has the second largest population of foreign migrants in the world after the US, is preparing for a incoming wave of labor migrants for the spring season.

// Mar. 09, 2010 - 08:14 GMT

Russia has decided to follow in the footsteps of some European countries and the US by introducing a car scrappage scheme in an attempt to save the country's automotive industry.

// Mar. 09, 2010 - 08:10 GMT

Would you believe that Russia has become more anti-Marxist than the United States? Actually that isnâ™t hard to believe since the Russians suffered under Marxist-Communism for 70 abysmal years and have no desire to repeat it. </p>

// Mar. 05, 2010 - 08:54 GMT

So far this year the United States has succeeded in inflaming tensions with China and indefinitely holding up a new strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia through its relentless pursuit of global interceptor missile deployments.

// Mar. 05, 2010 - 08:51 GMT

Various diplomats appear to be questioning the supposed competition between the Nabucco and the South Stream natural gas pipelines. In fact, Russia and Turkey are collaborating to block the full implementation of the EUâ™s Southern Corridor energy strategy so as to assert a duopoly over natural gas supplies to Europe. </p>

// Mar. 05, 2010 - 08:47 GMT

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world expected a new era of peace and disarmament. But what happened? Instead of diminishing, US and NATO presence throughout Europe, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and Central Asia rapidly increased, and the world experienced one war after another — in the Caucasus, Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan, each one hotter and more horrible than the last. And we are far from seeing the end to the savagery now unleashed by the anti-communist jinni.

// Mar. 04, 2010 - 08:31 GMT

A report issued by RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency, quoted Russian President Dmitry Medvedevâ™s statement at a March 1 joint news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy that Russia and the United States are close to completing negotiations on a new treaty that would cut stores of strategic arms. </p>

// Mar. 04, 2010 - 08:30 GMT