... lies, we believe, in its opportunities being mostly tactical and situational, while the threats it faces are strategic and systemic. The balance of opportunities and threats depends on many variables but primarily on how Russia ultimately copes with COVID-19 compared to other states, particularly its international opponents. Any comparative advantage that Moscow has in fighting the virus, be it the numbers infected and lost to COVID-19 or the relative scale of economic losses will somehow expand ...
We are facing a generational change among the leaders of the world’s great powers
We are facing a generational change among the leaders of the world’s great powers. Russia can return to closer relations with the West only if the Kremlin’s future leaders sets itself the goal of serious social and economic modernisation, according to
Andrey Kortunov
, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), who would have been a speaker at the Lennart Meri Conference. The RIAC was established...
... appears quite realistic. In the medium and long term, this development will bolster the demand for both skilled and unskilled workers and result in the obstacles to migration flows being somewhat relaxed.
Russia
Andrey Kortunov:
Global Victory Over COVID-19: What Price Are We Willing to Pay?
Russia fits into most of the global trends outlined above.
In the short term, the EAEU partnership will take on more pragmatic, or perhaps stricter, forms. However, migration flows will not shrink. Instead, ...
When superpowers are not surrounding themselves with ideological blocs, bipolarity is nothing but two states getting into a bickering match, albeit with certain global attributes
There is a certain foreign political dimension to the COVID-19 pandemic that is beginning to rear its head with increasing frequency and can thus explain the current behaviour of states on the international stage. Coronavirus plays two largely contradictory roles – it accelerates some processes while at ...
... American citizens jailed abroad (
https://www.state.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-at-a-pres…/
). They are promising to impose sanctions against “guilty governments”, should their compatriots die due to the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the situation with COVID-19 in the American correctional facilities keeps deteriorating rapidly (
https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/
). Many inmates are infected, some of them have deceased. There is hardly any medical assistance for the convicted, neither there is coronavirus ...
... events could probably have drastically reduced the damage. However, even such limited measures meant damage of tens of billions of dollars and scrapping the personal plans of tens or hundreds of millions of people. In the world that existed before the COVID-19 epidemic, it was impossible for a politician or official in any country to take such steps only on the basis of assumptions.
Source:
Valdai Discussion Club
Perhaps, the only thing that can save the Arab Republic from a large number of COVID-19 deaths is large-scale external assistance
The world continues to fight the spread of COVID-19, an infection of a new type. In China, the peak of the epidemic has passed; countries of the European Union and the United States cannot yet seize ...
On April 29, 2020, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held an online conference "The Future of Africa in the Context of Energy Crisis and COVID-19 Pandemic". Igor Ivanov, RIAC President, made an opening speech.
On April 29, 2020, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held an online conference "The Future of Africa in the Context of Energy Crisis and COVID-19 Pandemic"....
On April 30, 2020, Ksenia Kuzmina, RIAC Program Manager, took part in the webinar dealing with “Relevance of BRI: Post COVID-19” hosted by the Indian think tank Global Counter Terrorism Council
On April 30, 2020, Ksenia Kuzmina, RIAC Program Manager, took part in the webinar dealing with “Relevance of BRI: Post COVID-19” hosted by the Indian think tank Global ...
On April 29, 2020, the International Crisis Group (ICG) held an online expert meeting to monitor the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on conflict situations in different regions of the world.
On April 29, 2020, the International Crisis Group (ICG) held an online expert meeting to monitor the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on conflict situations in different regions ...
