By David Brian An audio tape has just been released in Iraq proving the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein personally ordered the gassing of ethnic Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s. In audio recordings made years ago he is

By Valentin Zorin Policy-makers and media editions alike have lately been busy discussing what Washington presents as its new strategy for Iraq. Most news analysts agree that there is little new in what is described as a new strategy. What

By David Brian France's daily newspaper Le Figaro recently carried an article about President Bush's new imitative on Iraq. Announcing his decision to send additional American troops into Iraq, President George W. Bush apparently wanted to show he still has

By David Brian After the end of the Cold War underpinned by the ideological confrontation between Washington and Moscow, many, if not all, political analysts predicted that international tensions would now subside and the world was bound to become more

By Mike Sullivan Late last month the NBC Nightly News featured a report that left the inference that the FBI has significant problems in their vital Counterterrorism operations because certain high-placed officials could not distinguish between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

By Sergei Vrublevsky The Southern division of the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office has reopened the case of Chechen separatist emissary Ahmed Zakayev. It is getting ready to ask for Zakayev's extradition from Britain where Zakayev has lived for the past four

By David Brian The State Duma has sealed a legal loophole that allowed money from banks in Haifa, Canberra and the Cayman Islands to end up on the accounts of Russian political parties. The MPs severed the chain by taking

By Yuri Reshetnikov With US President George W. Bush expected to announce a policy readjustment on Iraq, few observers and political experts believe the situation in that country is going to be radically changed, whatever shift in policy the US

By Yuri Reshetnikov Political analysts in Russia and in the West have pointed to a readjustment of western policies with regard to Moscow. This policy review is particularly evident in the United States with the Democrats in the US Congress

By David Brian President George W. Bush has told weapons labs to render bombs terrorist-proof. But critics say theft risk is low and more urgent issues are being ignored. In response to a secret order from President Bush, the nation's

By Yuri Reshetnikov A Russian businessman linked to a probe into the radiation poisoning of the ex-Russian intelligence agent, Alexander Litvinenko claimed this week he had been contaminated by the former agent in London weeks before the latter fell fatally

By Yuri Reshetnikov New opinion polls show Americans view the war in Iraq with increasing skepticism, as US President George W. Bush weighs his options on a possible policy shift. A month after American voters pushed Mr. Bush's Republican Party

By Yuri Reshetnikov A group of former prisoners held at US military facilities filed lawsuit last week in the District Court in Washington, D.C. against the outgoing US Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. The suit against Rumsfeld and a number of