It is great foot-work of Scotland to communicate the message of Independence to the EU Resistance to Scottish Independence will come – and perhaps even also from a corner not in England, but across the pond. The UK is a key US ally. Scotland has a strategic location for UK sea-air control of the northern entrance to the North-Sea, of Scandinavia and…

25 -28 May 2019 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan the expert school “The Role of the Astana International Financial Center in the Integration Processes and the Establishment of the EAEU Commona Finance Market” took place. The school was organized by the AIFC with the participation of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC). Yuri Kofner, Head of…

U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intentions of withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria in December 2018. This announcement came as a surprise to many members of Congress and led to the abrupt resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis. After defeating the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, President Trump believed U.S. forces could begin leaving…

Review: Analogue Network Security by Winn Schwartau
6 Star Special, Complexity & Resilience, Crime (Corporate), Economics, Information Operations, Information Society, Information Technology Amazon Page BOOK PAGE AT AMAZONWinn Schwartau 6 Stars – Foundation for IT & Web 3.0 Security This book is critical to the post-Western Web 3.0…

As vast northern countries, Canada and Russia are sharing some interests when it comes to cooperative policies in the Arctic. Nonetheless, Ottawa and Moscow are facing each other as the North Pole is the shortest way to send aircrafts and bombers to target both US and Russian territories. The respective military capabilities are, however, peculiar…

Today, immunisation against the rational discourse is once again taking place through political and religious dogmas. The new media supports the (re)production of simple political explanations. In the globalised digitised world, the answer to political propaganda and monopolistic opinion spread by empires and media corporations should not be the use of…

_ Yuri Kofner, Head, Eurasian sector, CCEIS, HSE, Research assistant, IIASA, Editor-in-chief, analytical media “Eurasian Studies”. Nur-Sultan, 29 May 2019.During the first five years of its existence, the EAEU became an indisputable economic reality in Eurasia. Despite the international pressure and relative youth of the Union, it is bringing…

The campaigns for the EU parliamentary elections degenerate into political folklore. This hides the fact that the EU Parliament has no democratically legitimated constitutional structure comparable to a state. Accordingly, the EU elections will (and can) change little to the current situation.By Ulrike Reisner, freelance political analyst, lecturer…

Trump does not want to replay the Iraq war. In world politics, things change very fast now. Yes, for 1-2 days last week, one wondered if the US government was stumbling into a war with Iran. Now, reactions from all sides — including the EU, the US Republican and Democrat mainstream politics, as well as from Trump himself — show, that when faced…

If it is true the European Union has experienced the greatest and longest peace of its history since the post-war period, sometimes the questions of closeness make the relationships problematic and create opportunities and opportunities to shake the tablecloths full of crumbs on the terrace of the neighbor giving the blame to the strong wind. The…

No War on Iran If Rouhani “Makes the Call” His Call Could Trigger the Firing of Bolton, Pompeo, and Perhaps Abrams Robert Steele as interviewed by Javad Heirannia Q. You were interviewed by Russian national television recently, contradicting everything the Russians believe from the fake news media, for example, that 120,000 troops are on their way…

This original RIAC post is superceded by the article as published by various outlets, here also at RIAC: Article as Published: No War on Iran If Rouhani “Makes the…It has been an honor for me to be welcomed to the RIAC blog, and an education for me to be exposed to the thinking of so many who are not heard in the USA but represent the civilization…