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Daily with a circulation of 430 000 copies founded in 1917, like the Pravda.

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“Israel has withdrawn from Gaza. Can we expect the reestablishment of peace then?"

by Viatcheslav Irgounov

12 October 2005

The definitive liberation of Gaza by the Israelis is an unprecedented and important event the world can’t assess yet. The hope for reconciliation between Arabs and Jews is a possible development model for relations between the haves and the rest of mankind. The prospects for development of (...)

“There are people, among the President’s closest advisers, who are trying to take over power”

by Alexander Zinchenko

16 September 2005

I really don’t know what the Ukrainian opposition is today, actually. It has no structures at all and is not capable of making important progress. I don’t think it can emerge as third force. Political changes will depend on the internal situation of the power structures. Viktor Yushchenko is (...)

“Whom Does Russia Depend On?”

by Viktor S. Chernomyrdin

23 June 2005

We do not celebrate Independence Day, we celebrate Russia’s Day: a holyday. Our independence must not be questioned, nobody does. Fifteen years ago now, we lived in a sovereign State, quite a short time for a country like ours. A border separates us from Ukraine, but we are together like good (...)

“Russia Depends On Its Electors, On Its Political Circles, and On the Oil Prices”

by Konstantin Eggert

23 June 2005

First of all, Russia depends on its own citizens, who, when voting, decide the way in which their country will live. Russia also depends on its political leaders and to a greater extent on the political circles that propose projects to the people. Additionally, Russia depends on the world (...)

“Europe Has Gone Through Difficult Times, But Remains United”

by Tony Blair

23 June 2005

I feel happy with my visit. My relations with Vladimir
Putin are solid. I was one of the world leaders to visit him after he came to power. Of course, there are differences between us, but that’s normal in international politics. Relationships between Russia and Great Britain are good and we (...)

“The American media is sick”

by Claude-Jean Bertrand

16 June 2005

If the media of a democratic country is sick, then it could not be said such country is healthy. The media crisis of the most powerful country in the world have been evident since 1995 when for 18 months the America media focused on the murder of a famous soccer player’s wife. After that, it (...)

“Tashkent Has Been Deprived of its Voice”

by Oleg Panfilov

16 May 2005

The problem of Uzbekistan and of other countries of Central Asia, as well as of most countries of the CIS, is not having developed a political culture throughout Soviet history. To be more precise, as there were never dissidents, there is no tradition of political debate. Independent (...)

"France Freedom Was Only Possible Thanks to the Courage of the Russian People"

by Jacques Chirac

11 May 2005

Let us celebrate the European nations’ freedom from the nazi yoke. The liberation of France by the allies was only possible because the Russian people and their soldiers showed unprecedented courage. The Russian soldiers lived through the hardest trials of that war and they managed to (...)