The contemporary international relations still include Russia as one of the key actors in the Balkans politics. The relations between Russia and Yugoslavia were marked with an outright denouncement of Slobodan Milosevic and his regime, which was also reflected in Russian s attitude toward NATO intervention in Kosovo. However, Russian politics is not unanimous vis-a-vis Yugoslavia-on the one han...

Abstract:Despite Iran’s critical relations with USA since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Canada had often played the role of an honest broker and maintained relations with Iran, con-trary to the US. Although the Canadian Government has not viewed the Iranian regime as democratic actor, it was interested in pursuing diplomacy for moderating the Iranian Policies too. Iran and Canada relati...

The post-Soviet land reforms that allowed private ownership of land in Russia and Ukraine, and the recent rise in global interest for land resources have made the fertile land of these countries an object for investment and a cause of disputes among land investors, peasants, and government. In similar circumstances in other agricultural countries, social movements rose to the defense of rural d...