... counter the Soviet Union, the common adversary to both. The current situations are completely different. China is not the common enemy of Russia and the United States. Moreover, China and Russia have significant interests in the fields of security, economy, energy, and in many other spheres. The relationship between China and Russia is much better, closer and more solid than that between Russia and the United States. Of course, this neither means that the cooperation between the two countries is ...
... Academy of Sciences.
The discussion featured contributions from:
Tatiana Mashkova, Director General of National Committee for the Promotion of Economic Cooperation with Latin American Countries;
Ana Livia Araujo Esteves, Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University;
Ivan Kryazhev, Senior Advisor at the Senior Advisor at the World Youth Festival Directorate, Research Intern at the Institute of World Military Economics and Strategy, HSE University;
Anna Shakhina, Executive ...
... Israel or the U.S.),
Retaliatory attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Qatar,
Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz,
More active operations by Shiite militias in the region.
Inside Iran, this could trigger another major wave of protests, especially if the economy takes another hit from stricter sanctions. There is also a risk that some radical opposition groups could try to take advantage of the unrest to start an uprising with high casualties—something Iran’s counterintelligence has already warned ...
The ongoing spectacular U-turn in the bilateral relationship became possible only thanks to the personal position of the 47th President of the United States. The changes remain fragile and reversible
At this moment, the main driver of the emerging positive dynamics of the Russian-American dialogue is the personal desire of President Donald Trump to become the main peacemaker in resolving the conflict between Moscow and Kiev. Everything else, including the movement towards normalization of bilateral...
... widely perceived as disruptive and deconstructive, it serves as one of the accelerating forces in the all-dimensional restructuring taking place in international relations.
Andrey Kortunov:
Can U.S. New Tariffs Trigger Structural Changes in Global Economy?
As the world tries to make sense of what this blanket tariff policy means for—and how it affects—their economies, speculation outweighs substantiation within the global economic matrix of what can be termed the late stage of capitalism. It ...
... Arctic
Similarly, the Eurasian region has witnessed these trends since the 1990s; Asian economies saw a rapid take-off in the 1990s, ASEAN and Gulf countries, as well as India and China, saw an economic boom at the end of the 1990s, while the Russian economy grew rapidly. As the years passed, a similar phenomenon could be observed in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and South Asia, resulting in a major shift in international politics; the economic center of gravity was shifting eastward as supply chains ...
... protectionism. The next stage of Euro-Atlantic relations will unfold in the realm of clashing economic interests and inevitable conflicts, where Germany plays the role of the European Union’s central hub.
Germany: The Epicenter of Clashing Market Economy Models
Amid the global reshaping of geoeconomic priorities, Germany finds itself at the center of a mounting collision between two economic and political approaches: U.S. neo-protectionism and the European model of “green” transformational ...
... General of National Committee for the Promotion of Economic Cooperation with Latin American Countries, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation;
Andrey Filippov, Deputy Director for International Cooperation at the Digital Economy ANO;
Valery Kardashov, Chairman of the Expert Council on AI Development at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, President of the AI Global Association;
Oksana Dutova, Vice President of the AI Global Association;
Evgeny Ponomarev, Research ...
... memory of human beings. This change was famously observed by Chinese President Xi Jinping when he
said
, “Our world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century.”
Andrey Kortunov:
Can U.S. New Tariffs Trigger Structural Changes in Global Economy?
On April 2, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump
unveiled
an early 20
th
-century type of economic policy, increasing tariffs on countries unseen since the
Great Depression of 1929
. From a
baseline
of 10 percent to a maximum of 46 percent, ...
... to find the way to organise vast space around itself, as well as balance interests in Eurasia with India and China. The 2023 Foreign Policy Concept states Russia’s unique geographic position and its transit potential as a means to advance national economy and improve transport and infrastructural connectivity in the region [
5
]. However, the document pays more attention to how the latter may transform it into common space of peace, stability and prosperity through building Greater Eurasian Partnership ...
