... diversify supply. Notably, Russia
shipped
2.1 million tonnes of LNG to South Korea in 2024, making it the country’s seventh-largest supplier. Gas cooperation also involved plans to build a pipeline network from Russia to the South Korean city of Busan via North Korea. The project was
valued
at no less than $2.5 billion, with no serious technical hurdles to implementation, but the UN Security Council sanctions regime on Pyongyang stood in the way.
A trilateral project to link South Korea, North ...
Emerging powers will undoubtedly influence the shaping of future global governance structures and international mechanisms
For a very long time, the “Rules-Based International Order” has remained the West’s choicest phrase to denote a global governance order under the US leadership, built on liberal values, capitalist democracy and global cooperation. However, behind this persuasive rhetoric is a system which has been viewed by many non-western countries as a geopolitical instrument to advance...
... clients, especially when it all comes down to money flowing to America.
Hence the surprise in Washington when so many states line up for BRICS+ or SCO+. They are not necessarily embracing Russia or China unconditionally; they are signaling their refusal to live by rules drawn elsewhere.
Russia’s place
Against this backdrop, Russia finds itself not marginalized but central. Western isolation efforts only underscored Moscow’s role as a key pole around which non-Western states can organize. For ...
... leverages this hypothesis to filter out risk-averse leaders.
The Anti-Job Creation Syndrome: The job-seeker mindset drives the Anti-Job Creation Syndrome. When billions of new jobs are needed across free economies, market-based, democratic nations like the USA, Europe, and Canada tremble—not from external shocks, but from a silent, yet visible, lack of new economic solutions. Job-seeker mindsets, risk-averse by nature, hinder job creation and economic growth. The Test counters this syndrome by mandating ...
If Russia cannot be defeated, then it is necessary to negotiate with it, even if such negotiations are unpleasant to someone or seemed impossible in the past
The summit between the leaders of Russia and the United States in Alaska brought to a new reality the situation in relations between the world’s centres of power. In itself, it is unstable. One of the signs of such instability is the openness of the question of the parameters for settling the conflict in Ukraine.
However, the very fact that...
The US president’s push for the award captures the spirit of our age
In the early 1980s, former US President Jimmy Carter visited Stockholm. At a reception he approached Stig Ramel, the long-serving executive director of the Nobel Foundation, and asked with some bitterness why he had not received the Peace Prize for brokering the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.
“If I had been awarded it, I might have been re-elected for a second term,”
Carter remarked. He had lost to Ronald Reagan...
... Russia cannot be excluded from the international system. This simple fact means disputes between Moscow and the West, however sharp, are solvable in principle. Competition will remain fierce, especially over Ukraine. But after Anchorage, the Western refusal to acknowledge Russian interests is no longer an insurmountable barrier.
Trump’s domestic victory
For Trump, Alaska delivered something equally valuable: a domestic win. In the US, relations with Russia have become central to the internal political ...
It is possible that at some point we will see a special Brazilian model for solving the problem of “weaponised interdependence”
US President Donald Trump has
imposed new tariffs on Brazil
. They are 40% in addition to the 10% that Washington imposed on all countries
back in early April 2025.
At first glance, the event may seem routine against the backdrop of the Trump Administration’s many steps to increase tariffs on a wide variety of countries, including both opponents and allies of the United...
The beginning of summer 2025 was not the calmest for Eurasia and Russian policy in this vast region
The beginning of summer 2025 was not the calmest for Eurasia and Russian policy in this vast region. The military-political crisis around Iran, if it escalates further, could significantly affect the potential for cooperation and international security. Russia's relations with previously friendly Armenia, a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Union...
Trump is trying to curb the new rise of the alternative BRICS globalization approach
U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stern ultimatum to Russia, BRICS member states, and their economic partners. He warned that unless a peace agreement with Ukraine is signed within 50 days—by September 3, 2025—Washington will impose a 100% import tariff on goods from Russia, as well as “secondary” tariffs on countries that would continue buying Russian oil and gas. Speaking in the Oval Office alongside NATO...
