In 2002 the U.S.ambassador to the UN John R.Boston assigned Syria to the „rogue states“ cooperating with the „axis of evil“. B.Obama‘s administration is also suspicious toward this country, but it realizes that in order to reach peace in the Middle East it will have to find the ways of cooperation with Syria. However, so far the policy of warming the relations with Syria does not give positive results.

The first uprising in Kyrgyzstan took place in April 2010, a new draft Constitution was announced in May, and on 27 June the voters approved the Constitution. Let’s consider the future political situation in Kyrgyzstan and the perspectives for the establishment of a stable power in the country.

The Armenian elite’s way of thinking and Armenia’s foreign policy have been influenced by the history of the Armenian people, particularly the tragic events of 1915, when near 1.5 million Armenians were exterminated in the Ottoman Empire and a million people were spread all over the world, forming the Diaspora.

UN Security Council (SC) adopted the Resolution on new sanctions to Iran. It is interesting to know why Russia approved sanctions against Iran‘s nuclear program.

On the eve of voting in the UN, Tehran Times wrote that „ever since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 Russia has never been Iran‘s friend“.

After the new parliamentary elections in Belgium and great electoral victory in Flanders by Flemish separatist party (the New Flemish Alliance) which is fighting for political independence of Flanders, the Kingdom of Belgium is once again facing the long time process of governmental constitution like in 2007/2008 when only 196 days after parliamentary elections Belgium finally got a new government.

During nearly twenty years of existence of the post-soviet Russia, Europe‘s attitude toward the country has changed significantly. Initially, Europe tried to recover after the geopolitical shock caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union, later - to get rid of the illusions concerning the triumph of democracy in Russia; and during the tenth decade of the last century - to get accustomed to the neo-imperial ambitions of Russia.

This year, in the very middle of June, the Baltic nations will commemorate 70 years of their greatest misfortune. Then, in 1990, the neighbouring Soviet Union invaded and occupied all the three Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia for a long decades of captivity just shortly interrupted by German invasion with subsequent Soviet reoccupation and forcible sovietisation under brutal Stalinist force majeur causing enormous human and cultural losses.

For quite a long time the Arctic interested only scientists and researchers. 2 August, 2007 could be referred to as a major change in the geopolitical policy, i.e. the day when Russian expedition left the Russian flag on the Arctic Ocean floor, in the depth of 4 km, close to the North Pole. By this Moscow announced that this profound territory is prolongation of Russia‘s state and started international fighting for the Arctic.

The union of Belarus and Russia is an old project of two neighbors, which practically does not move toward a real union of the two states.

After the fall of the USSR,Belarus didn’t choose a clear road of integration to the West, although there were attempts to do that.

A new revolution in Kyrgyzstan. President K.Bakiyev managed to stay in power for five years, gathered too sweet fruits of the „tulip revolution“ and made Russia irritated. Riots in the country on 7-8 April led to the opposition’s statement concerning „restoration of democracy“, whereas K.Bakiyev had to run (by plane) to the country’s southwest to look for a shelter among relatives and supporters.

While planning the intervention in Afghanistan, the Western allies have chosen the Khyber Pass in Pakistan as the main military supplies route. About 75 percent of military cargo was shipped to the Port of Karachi and transported to Kabul by 2000 km land routes. The Khyber Pass is a serpentine road over mountain passes and is the best connection between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Everything gets in its right place. It becomes clear what is behind certain hearts (if these hearts are still alive) and minds: the brain or a sponge. The conscience, a nearly forgotten phenomenon, wakes up. It evidences about the soul, it can make mountains move and break through the concrete.

Largely unnoticed in the West, Ukraine’s new President, Viktor Yanukovych, has brought to power an illegitimate government, in March 2010. Though being installed via a seemingly orderly parliamentary procedure, the current Ukrainian cabinet headed by Prime-Minister Mykola Azarov has no proper popular mandate. How did that come about?

It wouldn‘t be right to say that Iran is completely isolated and has no friends. Moreover, there is no single opinion on Iran‘s nuclear programs and on whether attempts to stop these programs by international sanctions are efficient.

With all deepest sympathy we feel to Polish people, there is an open question for today and tomorrow. That’s the fundamental reason and message - the Katyn statement ­– with what kept at heart President Kaczynski moved to meet his destiny.

Sinikka Hurskainen, Rapporteur on the political situation in Belarus of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has arrived in Minsk for “collecting information, for meeting with people and for discussing the situation in the country”.

The Mayor of Moscow Jurij Lushkov is visiting Riga on 25 August.  According to the Telegraph, the top leaders of Latvia ignore this visit.

Belarus is dealing with the issue concerning the acquisition of the antiaircraft-missile complex C-400 from Russia, reported to the BELTA correspondent Major-General Igor Azarionok, the Commander of the military air forces and ABM of Belarus.

Journalists of the Kaliningrad newspaper “Страж Балтики“ (‘Guard of the Baltics’ – the official publication of the Baltic Fleet) have disclosed certain specific details about the naval exercise of maritime forces, which were carried out in the Baltic Sea in June 2010.

The president of Syria Bashar Asad is paying an official visit to Belarus on 26- 27 July.

The President Viktor Janukovich signed the earlier approved by the Parliament Law on “The Principles of Foreign and Internal Policy”, which enforces the status of the Ukraine outside the block and revokes the joining of the country into the NATO, reported on 15 July NEWSru.ua referring to the press office of the Government.

Military officials of the region have been substituted by the strategic commandment