The Russian leadership has every reason right now to turn homeward to address the glaring weaknesses, imbalances, and inequalities of the country’s internal situation
The central feature of the new strategy is its focus on Russia itself. The Russian leadership has every reason right now to turn homeward to address the glaring weaknesses, imbalances, and inequalities of the country’s internal situation.
Russia’s new, forty-four-page
National Security Strategy
signed by President Vladimir Putin...
Russia and the United States have demonstrated that they are capable of reducing the risk of military confrontation and the threat of nuclear war even in times of tension
The Geneva Summit between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Joe Biden of the United States had several dimensions.
On the one hand, it was supposed to give us an idea of how the relations between the two largest nuclear powers—largely determining the overall state of global security—would develop. On the other hand...
Fresh attempts to expose Russian “red line” deterrence as hollow — whether on the ground, in the air, or at sea — would push Moscow to defend what it cannot give up without losing its self-respect
Fresh attempts to expose Russian “red line” deterrence as hollow—whether on the ground, in the air, or at sea—would push Moscow to defend what it cannot give up without losing its self-respect. This would almost inevitably lead to clashes and casualties, which would carry the risk of further escalation...
... for their own leadership. This hegemony in relations with the powers, military victory over which is impossible due to the nuclear weapons factor, was possible only amid conditions of cooperation and the institutionalisation of relations. But the refusal to cooperate, like the destruction of the institutions of globalisation, means, first of all, the renunciation of the prospects for hegemony.
Therefore, an incredible amount of extremely qualified research on the problem and features of the so-called ...
Interview with Ivan Bocharov
On June 16, 2021, the U.S.-Russia summit took place in Geneva. Along with strategic security and cybersecurity issues, President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Joe Biden of the United States discussed the Middle East and North Africa. They talked about bringing some stability, economic and physical security to the peoples of Syria and Libya. Besides, they discussed the topic of Iran. Tariq Khan, an international relations analyst, spoke with Ivan Bocharov, Referent...
... June 26–27, 2021, International Schiller Institute held an online conference For the Common Good of All People, Not Rules Benefiting the Few! The participants of the conference included experts, public figures, politicians and journalists from the USA, Europe, Asia, and Russia.
On June 26–27, 2021, International Schiller Institute held an online conference
For the Common Good of All People, Not Rules Benefiting the Few!
The participants of the conference included experts, public figures, politicians ...
... before the summit and their bilateral relations in recent years. U.S. officials and businesses have been accusing Russia of organizing cyberattacks ever since the scandal surrounding the interference in the U.S. 2016 presidential elections. These accusations have served as pretexts for expelling diplomats, imposing sanctions, and probably
using
America’s cyber capabilities against Russian organizations (one such attack was
confirmed
by none other than Donald Trump). The U.S. leadership considers ...
On June 22, 2021, a regular meeting of the U.S.–Russia Middle East Dialogue Group was held
On June 22, 2021, a regular meeting of the U.S.–Russia Middle East Dialogue Group was held. The event was organized by Washington Middle East Institute in partnership with Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the U.S. Department of Defense.
Dialogue meetings are held regularly twice a year from July 2016, since the early 2020 the meetings have been held online. The aim of the U.S.-Russia Middle...
The US-Russian interaction will continue to be primarily adversarial and/or competitive
It is high time a worldwide competition was launched among scholars, journalists and bloggers on how to define the US-Russian relations after the Geneva summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. "Reset" will not pass, since the two sides have demonstrated some fundamental disagreements not limited to their approaches to specific international problems, but including their general views on global...
June 26-27, 2021
U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin emerged from their four-hour summit discussion in Geneva, Switzerland, to present to the world a "U.S-Russia Presidential Joint Statement on Strategic Stability," whose brief text includes the following central commitment: "Today, we reaffirm the principle that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." That exact phrase was used by Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev in their famous November...
