Analytical articles

    The What If: Normalize Relations, Improve Trade and Welfare for Germany

The new Syrian authorities cannot simply cut ties with Moscow. They know well that Russia can be helpful in many pragmatic ways, including counterbalancing other actors, e.g. Turkey, the U.S. and the Gulf states

In parrying these security threats, it is important for Russia not to engage in a quantitative and tit-for-tat arms race but to respond asymmetrically, a strategy that has often proven successful in the past

Still, the Trump plan in its current form is only half-baked

Major Accomplishments, Unfinished Business, and Future Challenges

In a system where nationalism contradicts globalism, multipolarity seems to be the most conciliatory force that can emancipate the world from the crippling effects of unipolar dominance in the era of hybrid imperialism

Russia currently maintains closer relations with the Sultanate of Oman than ever before

On January 30, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addressed a RIAC General Assembly meeting held at the Foreign Ministry Mansion

Twists and turns of the conflict in eastern DR Congo

The shift of leadership in nuclear power development from the Global North to the Global South is a natural process of transformation in global energy markets

We are not angels, and therefore we cannot teach others from above. What we can do is think about a better future and create it together, instead of relying on of others

The future belongs to new flexible, inclusive mechanisms rather than to old, rigid hierarchical blocks