Levon Ter-Petrosyan: The mastermind of Armenian realpolitik “Character shows itself in times of crisis” soberly stated the former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who himself was considered the nation’s crisis manager. A statement that fits all too well with Armenia’s first president, Levon Ter-Petrosyan. After all, in order to measure the achievements and efforts of Armenian
Klemens von Metternich: Visionary, peacekeeper and forefather of modern diplomacy As one of his ideological patrons, the former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger referred to the Austrian diplomat and Chancellor Klemens von Metternich. The name Metternich is on the one hand a synonym for brilliant Austrian diplomacy, but at the same time it is
MI 6: New friendship between UK and Turkey? Former British Ambassador to Turkey and friend of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been appointed head of the British foreign intelligence service MI6. The Government of the United Kingdom maintains intelligence agencies within several different government departments. The agencies are responsible for collecting and producing foreign