... opposite – a mighty cold wind is raging over the Baltic Sea and the countries adjacent to it. First of all, there was consolidation of the positions of the West – after Finland joined NATO and Sweden applied to join, all countries in the region, except Russia, became members of the two most influential Western associations – NATO and the EU.
Russia does not have such acute contradictions with Sweden and Finland as it does with Ukraine, but the positive potential of their non-aligned policy has now ...
... balance technological sovereignty with economic liberalism
The global economy, including capitalism itself, is currently being transformed by a new industrial revolution, as the digital and technological world start to merge with the physical one. Russia’s ability to remain a great power and even to survive as a state will depend on the extent to which it can develop technological sovereignty in the new age.
Technological sovereignty refers to the ability of a nation to have control over its ...
... bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and indeed the entire practice of military interventions carried out in circumvention of UN decisions or contrary to the UN General Assembly.
No less obvious is the revisionism of powers such as Russia or China. It extends to those aspects of the modern international order that are better designed to serve the interests of the United States and its European allies: the UN system, international financial and economic institutions, and the accepted ...
On December 4, 2023, the online seminar "One Belt, One Road Initiative in Modern Geopolitical Realities" became the first joint event of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies (China)
On December 4, 2023, the online seminar "One Belt, One Road Initiative in Modern Geopolitical Realities" became the first joint ...
The political trust between China and Russia has been steadily strengthened over the years
The political trust between China and Russia has been steadily strengthened over the years, leading to close strategic coordination and a significant increase in bilateral trade volume. After a year ...
Working Paper No.77 / 2023
Working Paper No.77 / 2023
The following working paper discusses Russia–Serbia relations amid multiple sanction packages that have been imposed on Russia after the start of the special military operation in Ukraine. This paper reviews key areas of bilateral cooperation between Russia and Serbia, considering today’s ...
... could then immediately enter a crisis with all that would entail for domestic and regional stability. It’s therefore equally imperative for Ethiopia to rebuild its navy to preemptively avert economically driven crises.
Nikita Panin:
The US Is Using Russia’s Playbook in Africa, but There’s a Catch
Considering these dynamics, it might be in the neighboring countries’ objective interests to facilitate Ethiopia’s commercial and naval port plans, but the regional security dilemma poses a challenge....
The Russia-Middle East policy has demonstrated considerable resilience, as has the regional system of international relations
Introduction
When Vladimir Putin launched his “special military operation” in Ukraine a year ago, many experts and journalists ...
... Square in Kyiv, which actually were the starting point for the current Ukrainian crisis. Just a few months later in February 2014, the democratically elected president was
overthrown
. Radical nationalists seized state power and began to impose an anti-Russian agenda on the entire country.
Ukraine’s Eastern regions, which have gravitated towards Russia, did not agree with this. But those who seized power unleashed a genuine terror against this part of the population.
For a long time, Russia had tried ...
As the world's two super-nuclear powers, the relations of Russia and the U.S. are inseparable from nuclear risk
Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russia and the United States have been engaged in an almost open nuclear game, but in different forms and with different objectives. Both Russia ...
