On October 29, 2021, the European Leadership Network (ELN) held an international expert meeting focusing on the crisis in Afghanistan and its implications for relations between Russia and the West.
On October 29, 2021, the European Leadership Network (ELN) held an international expert meeting focusing on the crisis in Afghanistan and its implications for relations between Russia and the West.
The meeting was attended by international experts ...
... early 1980s. The last generation of Soviet youth were greatly influenced by Western counterculture: English-language music and the Beat literature. This counterculture was largely oriented towards the East, as distinct from the traditional, self-centred Western culture. It turned to the East not so much as a source of creativity but rather as a source of new spiritual horizons — mysticism, philosophy and religion.
Georgi Bovt:
Soft power of the Russian word
I first visited Central Asia as a young university student, and continued to go there in the 1990s for a number of reasons. In his
The Path of the Sacred Capricorn
, Vladimir Guzman (Videman) aptly describes the Moscow and Baltic underground of that period, and the ...
... problem; most likely, things will remain local and will be limited to individual instances of cooperation.
In previous decades, Central Asian countries were at the greatest risk from the threat coming from Afghanistan. Today, the threat has not exactly subsided,... ... railway transportation security.
Thus far, Russia’s foreign policy is mostly oriented towards stabilizing relations with the West and resolving the Syrian crisis. Therefore, the post-Soviet space will occupy a relatively smaller place in its foreign policy ...
