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General Leonid Ivashov

General Leonid Ivashov is the vice-president of the Academy on geopolitical affairs. He was the chief of the department for General affairs in the Soviet Union’s ministry of Defense, secretary of the Council of defense ministers of the Community of independant states (CIS), chief of the Military cooperation department at the Russian federation’s Ministry of defense and Joint chief of staff of the Russian armies. He is member of the Axis for Peace conference.

21 articles

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BRICS and the Mission of Reconfiguring the World

by General Leonid Ivashov

Moscow (Russia) | 15 June 2011

While the U.S. empire is teetering on the brink of collapse, General Leonid Ivashov turns his attention to the BRICS and brings into focus their potential for ushering in an alternative world order beyond the range of the dollar dictatorship and, ultimately, the predominance of so-called (...)

"In the Interests of Israel": Why Russia will not sell the S-300 Air Defense System to Iran

by General Leonid Ivashov

Moscow (Russia) | 28 September 2010

The sanctions against Iran were the final blow to the Medvedev-Putin partnership, already on the wane for some time. The Russian President has opted for the U.S.-Israeli camp. The outright war between the two excutive heads has crystallized around the possible delivery of the surface-to-air (...)

Iran: The threat of a nuclear war

by General Leonid Ivashov

6 April 2007

Strongly convinced that a US nuclear strike on Iran is imminent, General Ivashov analysis the probable outcomes of a United-Stator-Irani war. He confirms, for example, that such a conflict will lead to a military one between Tel Aviv and Tehran which will immediately evolve into a religious (...)

Countdown

Iran Must Get Ready to Repel a Nuclear Attack

by General Leonid Ivashov

Moscow (Russia) | 16 February 2007

For the general Leonid Ivashov, the former Chief of the Russian armed forces’ Staff, it is doubtless that the Bush administration plans nuclear attacks against Iran and that the Pentagon will be capable to carry them out within the few coming weeks. He is too sure that the United States will (...)

Axis for Peace

General Ivashov: “International terrorism does not exist”

by General Leonid Ivashov

Brussels (Belgium) | 17 January 2006

General Leonid Ivashov was the Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces when the September 11, 2001, attacks took place. This military man, who lived the events from the inside, offers an analysis which is very different to that of his American colleagues. As he did during the Axis for Peace (...)

“I had to defend Russia’s honor before the court of The Hague”

by General Leonid Ivashov

19 May 2005

I had to testify during 10 hours in the case of Milosevic. I still have to defend the former head of the General Staff of the Yugoslavian armies, General Dragoljub Oidanic. I was shocked by the record of my hearing; it was full of mistakes, omissions and incomplete phrases. With the military (...)