To Be or Not to Be...? Someone’s grief, and someone’s drinking party

Traditions of the Kyrgyz people were being formed with the help of economic, trade, domestic and other relations with kindred and other tribes that were closely related to the geography of their ha...

Iran of the 60s: unsuccessful attempt to reform

After the coup of 19 March 1953 in the socio-political history of Iran there were fundamental changes: the powers of parliament were limited and the absolute power of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was...

Topic: Regional rivalry in the Middle East.

In the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran are two countries that claim to leadership in the region. With a powerful resources and political potential these countries are the...

Science & Technology, Israel

Israeli army admits using cyberspace to attack enemies
04.06.2012
Science & Technology|Middle East|Israel

Israel admitted Sunday that it uses cyberspace to attack its enemies, DPA reported.

The confession came in a statement on the Israeli military's website.

The website said it was "for the first time" revealing a document recently written by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Operations Department, detailing the goals and methods of its cyberwarfare.

"The IDF has been engaged in cyberactivity consistently and relentlessly," said the statement.

It said it had been using cyberspace for intelligence gathering and "will" also use it "to execute attacks" and "clandestine" operations.

Iran’s UN rep. warns against secret growth of Israel's nuclear power
26.04.2012
Science & Technology|Middle East|Israel

Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Mohammad Khazaee said the baseless claims of Israel about the nature of Iran's peaceful nuclear activities is just another attempt by it to deviate the international public opinion from secret expansion of its nuclear arsenal.

Israel to launch spy satellite to track Iran nuclear sites
06.10.2011
Science & Technology|Middle East|Israel

Israel plans to launch a spy satellite, which will double the resolution of its images, keeping a close watch on Iran, Channel 10 television reported on Wednesday.

It said the satellite, built by Israeli Elbit company, would be able to take high resolution images from an altitude of 600 kilometers (360 miles).

The main task would be to monitor Iran's controversial nuclear sites and its possible weapon shipments to Hizbullah, according to the report.

In January, 2008, Israel launched a powerful spy satellite to keep watch on Iran.

Israeli Daniel Shechtman awarded Nobel Chemistry Prize
05.10.2011
Science & Technology|Middle East|Israel

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Daniel Shechtman from the Israeli Institute of Technology in Haifa, for the discovery of quasicrystals, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Wednesday, DPA reportred.