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Opinions differ on the events in Ukraine. The western mainstream of politics and the media refers to a 'Russian aggression' and calls for 'educative measures', ergo severe sanctions. It is accepted that the eastern superpower so the West is lost in the foreseeable future as an important partner. More thorough analysts situate the causes of Ukraine crisis especially in the country itself, the good economic conditions went into independence after the disintegration of the USSR. However, various clans of oligarchs took over fast the economy, enriched themselves shamelessly and articulated policy. The events in the Crimea and in eastern Ukraine are to be understood only in the context of the post-Soviet space, as in Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh or Transdniestria. The western interference exacerbated the conflict. Adapted from the source document.

Germany is by no means 'island of the blessed': US nuclear weapons stored in the Bundeswehr location Buchel, Rhineland-Palatinate. The population is not out that, as the blockade of the site on a weekend two years ago showed. Colorful Gedrange ruled on August 11th and 12th 2013 at the gates of the airbase of the Bundeswehr in Buchel. Days before gathered here Nuclear opponents from all over Germany. 30 years after the blockade of nuclear missiles in Mutlangen camp, they demanded the withdrawal of the last 20 remaining American nuclear weapons on German soil. They protested against the policy of the federal government, which has approved the modernization and thus the long-term fate of these weapons on German soil. Adapted from the source document.

As a global business enterprise ROSATOM stand by its commitments, the supply agreements with EU countries were strictly adhered to; Also Ukraine would reliably supplied with nuclear fuel, said Vyacheslav Pershukov, Deputy Director General of the company, at the IAEA conference on nuclear fusion. The Russian Federation would continue to play an active role in the project International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). On the Development of Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the EU, China, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the US are involved. On the agenda of the Petersburg Conference, which was attended by about 700 experts from 40 countries, the magnetic confinement of the fusion plasma, the Treigheitsfusion (extremely brief thermonuclear reaction by fusing deuterium and tritium) stood, 3-D technologies in physics and other Questions of research and technology. ITER Director-General Osamu Motojima (Japan) stressed that it is the project do not trade only a perspective direction of the power generation, the States concerned were also able to enjoy Zahir Eicher spin-off effects, ie, they can developed for the project use innovative technologies and products in other areas such. as medicine. Adapted from the source document.

Is it these days opportune to talk about nuclear disarmament? The relations between Russia and the United States are as bad as at any time since the end of the Cold War. Washington is to modernize and to install a global missile defense, Moscow upgraded according to compensate for its incurred in the 1990s, 'nuclear deficits' its nuclear weapons. Adapted from the source document.

Mit dem Vertrag über die Eurasische Wirtschaftsunion erhält der Integrationsprozess im postsowjetischen Raum eine neue Qualität. Es entsteht eine neue geoökonomische Größe, die über beträchtliche Naturressourcen verfügt, jedoch großen Modernisierungsbedarf hat. Während USA und EU noch nicht bereit sind, die neue Realität anzuerkennen, haben Verhandlungen mit vielen anderen Staaten über Freihandelsabkommen begonnen. (WeltTrends / SWP)

The Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union, the integration process will have a new quality in the post-Soviet space. It is a new geo-economic variable which has significant natural resources, but has great need for modernization. While US and EU are not yet ready to recognize the new reality, negotiations with many other countries on free trade agreements have started. Adapted from the source document.

What lessons can be learned from the creation of the First World War? Is there a danger of a new Cold War? More than 400 politicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, clergy, NGO representatives and journalists from 65 countries discussed global issues such as world order and the policy of regime change, peace and security in Europe and Asia, the role of mass media, trade unions and youth and regional aspects such as the situation of Christians in the Middle East, the 'new Silk Road' and the Altai initiative. Adapted from the source document.

A never ending story? Afghanistan was and is a disputed territory in the heart of Asia. This shows a view of the past 200 years. The British Empire acted there bloody defeats and the Soviet Union failed. Now also NATO and other ISAF participants must admit that Afghanistan is a difficult place. Adapted from the source document.