The new US sanctions are still fraught with uncertainty. The key question is whether the United States is imposing restrictions on Russian sovereign debt obligations
The US and the EU have imposed new sanctions against Russia because of the so-called “Navalny case”. The European Union has activated the human rights sanctions mechanism
approved by the EU Council in December 2020
. On March 2, the EU added four Russian security officials to its sanctions list. The
sanctions
include a ban on entry...
... China believes this to be a covert operation in order to spy on the Chinese military infrastructure and ships.
Ivan Timofeev:
Sino-Russian Relations Are Still Not an Alliance, but They Are More Than Partnership
Russia’s stake in the wrangle
Located thousands of kilometers away, Russia may look like a full-fledged outsider of this dispute. Still waters run deep. Back in 2016, Vladimir Putin spoke of a “greater Eurasian partnership”. As the Russian Federation has been engaged in its pivot to Asia ...
... demonstrating their firm support of the US and its anti-Russian policies.
Michael Andreson:
Removed Diplomacy: Why U.S. Sanctions Against Russia Have Gone Stale
Clear enough, such a practice will not be limited to Russia only. Today hundreds, if not thousands of diplomatic officers all around the world find themselves hostage to problems they have nothing to do with. Western decision-makers seem to consider hosting foreign diplomats not as something natural and uncontroversial but rather as a sort of ...
... weapon would be of the implosion type. The CIA underlines France’s nuclear research was lacking behind Washington and London, while Moscow was not mentioned in the report at all. According to the report, Paris did not want to collaborate with the USA and the UK, while also rejecting a possible cooperation with the USSR. Overall, the 1959 report reinforces the idea of a French policy between the NATO and the Soviet Union.
In terms of estimates, the CIA envisages a first test around November 1959 ...
The fight against the pandemic changed Russia from the inside and these changes are more important than any foreign policy manoeuvres or adaptation to international affairs
The fight against the pandemic changed Russia from the inside and these changes are more important than any foreign policy manoeuvres or adaptation to international affairs, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev.
The coronavirus pandemic, which arrived in Russia exactly a year ago, in April 2020, greatly exacerbated...
If the cry “Never Again” is to retain any meaning, the Caesar Sanctions against Syria must be immediately lifted
As the Biden administration is recklessly expanding the sanctions regime—something that has become a routine response from Anglo-American officials to any government they accuse of violating the “rules-based order”—Helga Zepp LaRouche issued a call to end this practice, beginning with lifting the “Caesar Sanctions” against Syria. Zepp LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute,...
Perhaps the most important thing for the Russian leadership in this episode was to prevent the need to actually go to war against Ukraine in the future
Perhaps the most important thing for the Russian leadership in this episode was to prevent the need to actually go to war against Ukraine in the future. Going overkill in terms of military maneuvers on the Ukrainian border now may avoid the need to do terrible things at a later point.
The troops are not yet back at their bases, but the war alert...
What does the world community need to undertake to address the weak response to the pandemic?
What does the world community need to undertake to address the weak response to the pandemic? Nearly every major crisis faced by the world in the past was followed by a reconfiguration of global architecture, with new coordination mechanisms and new international organizations being created. Perhaps this time it is not so much about the creation of new organizations, but rather the greater responsibility...
On April 12, 2021, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hosted a virtual event on the future of Russia-U.S. relations under the Biden administration.
On April 12, 2021, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hosted a virtual event on the future of Russia-U.S. relations under the Biden administration.
The event was hosted by the Center for International Studies and the Security Studies Program. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Angela Stent, Director of the Center for...
Does exploiting the current crisis in Donbass by Warsaw really serve the regional stability and the U.S. long-term strategic goals vis-à-vis Moscow?
The article's title reflects the name of the book by the Polish professor emeritus Bronisław Łagowski, originally published as ‘Polska chora na Rosję’.
Since the “war scare in Donbass is receding,” as Carnegie Moscow’s Director, Dimitri Trenin,
argues
, and Poland is to be found among the countries most fiercely lobbying for Ukraine’s
membership...
