The START Treaty is certainly needed. It is impossible not to note a number of shortcomings that reduce its usefulness. First of all, Russia failed to achieve a strict link between the reduction in strategic offensive weapons and the cessation of work on the creation of the pro. In the new agreement, everything is indicated in legally non -binding terms.

The riots taking place in the last days in Kyrgyzstan - this is the second phase of that “tulip” revolution, which was several years ago . Many have already called her “tulip” revolution - 2, and such a designation is quite fair. The fact is that the goals of that revolution were not completed due to the fact that the president of Kyrgyzstan Bakiev behaved as an even worst usurper of the authorities than his predecessor Askar Akayev.

So, Kyrgyzstan. Riots - from the point of view of power. And the revolution is for third -party observers ... Repeated power steps on the same rake as 5 years ago, when the current president Bakiev replaced Akayev. How did it all start this time? On the eve of April 6, in the city of Talas, the crowd gathered at the regional administration building, demanding the release of the previously detained opposition activist.

Today, Pentagon and President Obama released their “review of the policy in the field of nuclear weapons”, and those who tried to get clarity on this issue, reading leading newspaper publications, were even more confused.

What is happening in Kyrgyzstan today is not the second stage of the “tulip revolution,” but its reincarnation. Why? If we recall the events that took place in Kyrgyzstan several years ago, then all the “problems” that led to the then coup began in the south. Southerners were unhappy that the northerners concentrated financial flows and power in their hands. That is why the representative of the south, Bakiyev, came to power, redirecting financial flows and power to himself.

When in 1973 I became a member of the Senate, the development of nuclear policy implied working on problems such as nuclear stability and the theory of deterrent. With the end of the Cold War and with the beginning of the development of new relations between the United States and Russia, fortunately, these topics are no longer considered as significant elements of public discussion. Today, the danger of a carefully planned world nuclear war has almost disappeared.

For several days now, from one former Soviet republic, news has come, which cannot be called shocking. One of the countries that became a bridgehead of the technology for the construction of the “Orange Revolutions” was plunged into the abyss of chaos. We are talking about Kyrgyzstan, whose president Kurmanbek Bakiev was forced to hide from the capital of the country, the city of Bishkek, in an unknown direction under pressure from the opposition.

The new START Treaty itself is very beneficial for our country, but Russia is not beneficial to Russia in which it signed. So why is this agreement beneficial to Russia? Firstly, it confirms the status of our country as a nuclear superpower and involves the preservation of the paratite of the strategic nuclear forces of Russia and the USA. In addition, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of a political and legal vacuum in such an important field of international security as nuclear weapons.

Barack Obama on the eve of a meeting in Prague with Dmitry Medvedev finally released a new nuclear doctrine of the United States of America. The document was expected at the end of last year, but the publication dragged on for four months. The doctrine turned out to be a compromise.