Georgian president Michael Saakashvili asked the Western world for protection against Russia that brought down Georgian pilotless plane peacefully spying on the territory of Abkhazia. However, the West doesn’t hurry to move its troops from Afghanistan and Iraq to help Georgia. The reason is clear: although the West and Russia never got on very well, the capacity of oil and gas that Russia possesses was always taken into consideration.

21.04.2008
The USA is ready to refuse from the initiative to deploy elements of its missile defense system in Poland. The tough stance of the Polish government became the stumbling block in the talks between the two countries. Warsaw demands very expensive preferences in return for the construction of a US missile base on its territory. It is not ruled out that the USA will deploy its missiles only in the Czech Republic

16.04.2008
UN experts warn: long-standing conflicts set off by higher food prices are in store for the world. “Imminent wars will break out due to worsening living conditions in poor countries,” Jean Ziegler, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food said. Within the past two months prices on rice increased by 52 percent, while grain prices soared by 84 percent. As a result, several countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America were hit by mass riots and revolts of the hungry

16.04.2008
The competition to obtain the franchise for the opening of the first McDonald’s restaurant will take place in Kosovo soon. An official spokesman for the US Chamber of Commerce in Kosovo, Mimoza Kusari, believes that the appearance of the world-known brand would make Kosovo a much more attractive region