The US space agency has forked out $490m for six seats for its astronauts to get to the ISS on board one of the Russian Federal Space Agency's (Roscosmos) Soyuz spacecraft.  Nasa's space shuttles were stopped in 2011 as the organisation set about sending its astronauts to the ISS on board privately developed spacecrafts like SpaceX.  However…

Picture by Andrey Kortunov, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council.   How many new floors can you add to the European Union before the building starts crumbling?  Image credit: www.ealuxe.com  Want to be published? Send your submissions to: stuff@russiancouncil.ru 

The advantage to mankind of being able to trust one another penetrates into every crevice and cranny of human life: the economical is perhaps the smallest part of it, yet even this is incalculable.   John Stuart Mill (1848)[1]   * * * * * * * * * * * * * *   In our first post[2] we proposed a universal business ethics principle:  …

How does Russia’s pivot to the East factor into the ongoing tensions in the South China Sea region? I have invited Dr. Hanns Maull, Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Senior Distinguished Fellow at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security…

A Sensible Grading of Obama’s Middle East Strategy: The Syrian Civil War

 


Grading Obama on what has—and has not—been done by his administration regarding the Syrian Civil War

 

By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981) August 3rd, 2015

 



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Author: Daria Basova, student in the World Politics Department, MGIMO University.   On July 7, Great Britain submitted a draft resolution on Srebrenica to the UN Security Council, seeking to have the July 1995 killing of Muslim population by the Serb army commanded by Ratko Mladic qualified as genocide. Russia vetoed the resolution, a move…

Picture by Andrey Kortunov, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council.   I know that the world of paper books is antiquated and doomed to extinction, but isn’t it beautiful?   Image credit: www.logsoku.com (Johns Hopkins Library)   Want to be published? Send your submissions to:…

Creating a multipolar world - one can easily say that this is becoming the main priority of many emerging markets. But why? Taking into consideration that there is a structural imbalance in the current world order that permeates into almost all spheres of human life, it’s no surprise that the rising economic superpowers are not going to take…

“I must admit that I am surprised by your admiration for Donald Trump. I have none,” wrote our friend, a distinguished American scholar.   I surely admire this friend and his views are shared by many.  Front runner Donald Trump still has the highest unfavorable ratings of any candidate.   But my sentiments are…

By Alexey Ilin & Claire Berger
 
The nuclear accord between the P5+1 and Iran will have significant implications beyond the Middle East, particularly when it comes to Russo-Iranian relations. As Paul N. Schwartz, a non-resident senior associate with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has…

Picture by Andrey Kortunov, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council.   The Roadmap to a common security system in Asia Pacific   Image credit: www.logsoku.com   Want to be published? Send your submissions to: stuff@russiancouncil.ru

Picture by Andrey Kortunov, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council.   Vladimir Putin and Barak Obama: two opposite views on the world and its future. Who will turn out to be right in the end of the day? Barak, Vladimir or someone else?   Image credit: catfoto.com   Want to be published? Send…