Issue 4 of the Meeting Russia Journal is about the national specificity of soft power in different countries.

The articles and essays are about the regional nuances and current trends in soft power.

From China’s global concept of harmony and bringing “hard” and “soft” together - to US' insistence on “sharp” power; from Europe’s…

Changes not seen in one hundred years are taking place – and the Global South stands to benefit. Africa is the world’s youngest continent.[1] Leveraging its population pidend, Africa has a unique opportunity to transform in the coming decades – Russian and Chinese support will be key to success.

Source: Rosatom
Indeed, for more than a decade…

Even as China was able to take advantage of Russia’s isolation and get access to the Vladivostok port after 163 years, Russia is keen that India expands its presence at the port, said people aware of the matter.
Russia recently awarded China the right to run the Vladivostok port as an official transit point of China from Thursday. Russian Prime…

Greece is one of the poorest members of the European Union, having been battered by the IMF, Brussels and the European Bank into the status of an economic slave: hundreds of thousands of young people have left the country; the unemployment rate is high; and social services have been seriously eroded.

Source: Reuters      
But…

Immanuel Kant: “Peace is the masterpiece of reason.”
A quick look at current world events is enough to reveal that the world is further away from peace than ever. What humanity urgently needs now is common sense to secure peace, as we are living in an “in-between time” or, as we used to say, “between the years”: We are living in between…

“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you prosper.
May there be peace within your walls, and prosperity inside your fortresses.”
For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”[1]

Sourse: Unsplash
 Jerusalem is known as the “Holy Land” to the three Abrahamic religions. The Bible…

On June 10, 1963, less than eight months after his nearly-catastrophic confrontation with the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles they placed in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy (JFK) delivered a speech which must be heard by everyone concerned about the existential threat emanating from NATO’s aggressive stance against Russia in Ukraine…

The Russian-Cuban cooperation has a long-standing history, rooted in their shared geopolitical interests and ideological affinities. The fact that Cuba and Russia are actively collaborating shows how close the two nations are becoming as friends and allies. Russia has been actively fostering business connections and providing assistance to Cuba in…

PICREADI represents the third issue of the Public Diplomacy Journal under the brand of the Meeting Russia program.

The topic of the issue is "Education in Russia":

Russian Houses & Their Friends, 
University of Tyumen: Example of International Training and Education at Universities in Russian Regions, 
Great…

Author - Ulrike Reisner, political scientist, Vienna, Austria. Original publication on picreadi.com

With funds from the European Peace Facility, the European Union now plans to procure munition for Ukraine. In doing so, the EU is once again contradicting itself as a "peace project". If it still wants to take itself seriously, it would be…

The referendums organised at the request of the two people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (independent since 2014 and recognised by Russia on 21 February 2022) but also in the territories of Zaporizhia and Kherson, have a historical and geopolitical significance on several levels, as it is not only a question of the process of Russian…

Pugwash, together with several Finnish NGOs (Peace Union of Finland, ICAN Finland, Physicians for Social Responsibility and Technology for Life Finland) have set up a Nuclear Weapons Monitoring Group (Finland) whose task is to provide timely analysis on issues relating to nuclear weapons and NATO.


Source: Reuters

When Finland joins the North…