At the Munich Security Conference, one of the speakers sadly said that he was once the youngest Minister of Defense, and now he became the oldest. "My wife Joyce read articles on this topic and now asks in the morning:" Well, long -liver, are you still able to get out of bed yourself? "Those present laughed cheerfully. Despite the fact that a quarter -century break occurred in the official’s official career, no one asked who this powerful old man was. Don Ramsfeld, who else.

In January 1993, a few days before the resignation of the presidency, Bush Sr. authorized a missile attack on Iraq and thereby ensured the continuity of the course. In June of that year, Clinton ordered the destruction of Iraqi intelligence headquarters. The basis was information about the impending assassination attempt on Bush. In the fall of 1994, another phase of the Iraqi crisis almost turned into a new war.

The minor successes of the Media Most on the Judicial Front like transferring hearings about the fate of the arrested 19 percent of the shares or the transfer of a meeting of the NTV shareholders to the Gibraltar Prosecutor General’s proposal did not seem to have awakened any illusions from the most interested participants in the intrigue.

The opening of the information center of the North Atlantic Union in Russia is, of course, the main event of the current visit of NATO Secretary General George Robertson to Moscow. At first glance, the event is purely protocol and uninteresting: you never know in Moscow diplomatic missions, including international organizations. But the resumption of the work of the NATO information center after the Kosovo crisis was delayed by the Russian side as much as it could be avoided.