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COVID-19’s Weakness Is Its Strength

... per 100,000 Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases: 10,000 deaths or 30.0 per 100,000 Accidents: 9,700 deaths or 29.5 per 100,000 In 2018 there were 4,157 suicides in Canada: making it the 9 th leading cause of death behind Alzheimer’s Disease. With an economy currently on life support in some sectors, the number of suicides will likely climb higher this year as people succumb to job loss, the inability to pay their mortgage or credit loans, and bankruptcies. In the last month alone, there have been ...

25.05.2020

India’s Digitalization: Big Data is the New Oil

... Government efforts, active work of India’s business and joint steps undertaken by India’s public bodies and private entrepreneurs who are equally cognizant of the digital transformation’s significance, difficulties and prospects for India’s economy and society as a whole have advanced the process of shaping India’s new digital realities. Dattesh Parulekar: India and Latin America: When a Rising Power and an Emergent Growth Pole Engage In 2015, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced ...

25.05.2020

Contemporary China: Polit-economic, Socio-cultural Challenges & Prospects

... match its powerful economic status with a benevolent state image internationally Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, all eyes, yet again, are on China, which many expect, equally enthusiastically and alarmingly, to become the world’s largest economy over the next few decades. The economic growth, though, does not automatically root out all sources of disparity even if it shrinks the overall scope of inequality. Being almost exactly in the middle on the Gini line between total inequality and ...

08.05.2020

Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's Open Letter

Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's Open Letter U.S. Department of State The United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons U.S. Department of State The United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons The U.S. authorities demand to release the American citizens jailed abroad ( https://www.state.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-at-a-pres…/ ). They are promising to impose sanctions against “guilty governments”, should their compatriots die due to the coronavirus. Meanwhile...

08.05.2020

Egypt May Become the Next Bergamo

... more evident that saving a life requires strict control measures. However, universal quarantine in Egypt is not on the government’s agenda, and there is an explanation for this. The coronavirus posed a dilemma for world leaders: saving people or the economy. The socio-economic crisis in which the Arab Republic found itself long before the epidemic leaves the Egyptian authorities with no choice. The Egyptian president once said that the two main challenges facing the ARE are terrorism and population ...

06.05.2020

Coronavirus as a Symptom of Systemic Stagnation

... production (the first industrial revolution), for example, was the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The First World War was preceded by the emergence of mass production (the Second Industrial Revolution). The universal computerization of the economy (the Third Industrial Revolution) took place alongside the collapse of the Soviet Union and socialism as a whole and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. It is logical to assume that the coronavirus pandemic is a test of sorts to see if the global ...

23.04.2020

Trade, Investment and the AfCFTA

A Russia-EU-Africa Strategy for Economic Development and Prosperity. Policy Brief #25/2020 Policy Brief #25/2020 A Russia-EU-Africa Strategy for Economic Development and Prosperity Russia and the European Union are in the ambitious pursuit of Africa’s heart. Both parties continue to pursue their own rigorous cooperation strategies with the continent – Russia is preparing to open its very first industrial zone in Egypt, and the EU has guaranteed its seat at African Continental Free Trade Agreement...

21.04.2020

Russia might well consider its participation in EU defence policy projects within the framework of PESCO

Interview by Permanent Representative of Russia to the EU Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov for "Die Welt" Ambassador, how would you describe EU – Russia relations today? They have stabilised at an abnormally low level following the imposition of unilateral restrictive measures – sanctions, as Europeans call them – against my country. And now? I see a growing need on both sides to bring our relations back to normal and work more closely with each other again. We had well-functioning structures...

20.04.2020

War, the Economy and Politics in Syria: Broken Links

... span has decreased by 20 years. Syria is short of doctors and nurses, teachers, technicians and qualified government officials. The economic challenges now faced by Syria are even more serious than during the active phase of hostilities. It is in the economy that a web of old and new problems has emerged, and this is not just due to the catastrophic destruction during the war or US and European sanctions, although the humanitarian consequences are very sensitive, especially for the majority of the ...

17.04.2020

Good News From the Parallel Energy Sector

... that demand for electricity on weekdays will be more like demand for electricity on weekends as people stay at home. But what does that mean for the sector? Former Siemens representative in Russia Dietrich Moeller believes that a slowdown in the global economy and a decrease in the electricity consumption especially in the industrial production, cannot be easily compensated by an insignificant increase in private consumption on a global scale. He is confident that energy companies will face lower electricity ...

16.04.2020
 

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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