The current Syrian drama is far from the usual, clear-cut "good guys vs bad guys" Hollywood shtick. The suspension of the Arab League observers mission; the double veto by Russia and China at the UN Security Council; the increasing violence especially in Homs and some Damascus suburbs

The Russian position in the Euro-Atlantic geopolitical region was supposed to turn towards careful cooperation by two major doctrinal shifts which have occurred recently.

Looking back to 2011, the effect of the Arab Spring is still lingering. People have risen in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya and Syria and initiated a worldwide quest for political rights and social justice. Once characterised as politically and economically stagnant by neo-Orientalists, the Arab world set the regional and international agenda of the last year.

Od konce listopadu 2011 probíhají v Egyptě zcela první svobodné parlamentní volby. Prozatím dílčí výsledky první a druhé fáze voleb prozatím ukazují na výrazné a do jisté míry i očekávané zisky strany Svobody a spravedlnosti (FJP), která je prodlouženou rukou dlouholeté opoziční organizace Muslimské bratrstvo.

Known by his famous (but a little bit sarcastic) pseudonym as ‘father of nation’ or ’ Otec Národa’ as they country-wide refer to adress him here in Slovakia, Vladimír Mečiar without doubt, constitutes the most controversial political figure of the Slovak political history.

V souvislosti s egyptskou revolucí a jejím úspěchem je velmi často zmiňována role internetu a sociálních sítí. Někteří egyptskou revoluci označují dokonce jako Facebook/Twitter revoluci.

After almost three years of cultivating productive pragmatism in US-Russian relations, numerous signs tend to signal that if the relations maintain the newly obtained downward spiral, the relations might be easily heading toward a kind of pre-breakdown phase of the “Restart”.