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Centennial Anniversary of the Sykes–Picot Agreement
In May 2016 it will be 100 years since the signing of a document which went down in history under the title "the Sykes–Picot Agreement" (by the names of two diplomats—a Frenchman François Georges-Picot and an Englishman Mark Sykes. It defined...
Crimea and Donbass – A Tale of Two Cities
The second anniversary of Crimea reuniting with Russia brought memories of Charles Dicken’s famous, A Tale of Two Cities, a novel set in Paris and London about the French Revolution. Dicken’s first line is still with us today. “It was...
EU Messes up in Balkan Gas Geopolitics
In their determination to bypass their dependency on Russian natural gas, the bureaucrats of Brussels have approved construction of a trans-Adriatic gas pipeline from Azerbaijan to Greece. It looks workable on paper. There's only one problem...
