The new emphasis on China will not change the US position on Ukraine, but it might affect the foreign policy discourse in Washington
Foreign policy matters seldom set the US midterm election agenda. The midterm elections of 2022 were no exception from this general rule: American voters turned out to be primarily concerned about such emotional ... ... argue that today there is a solid bipartisan consensus on the overall US global strategy, including attitudes toward the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
Andrey Kortunov:
A New Western Cohesion and World Order
US military aid to Kiev will continue throughout ...
... with the Minsk agreements. Additionally, since Ukraine is a parliamentary-presidential republic, and since V. Zelensky does not have his own faction and will not have a sufficient number of supporters in the Verkhovna Rada until the next (or early) elections, he will be significantly restricted in his legislative maneuvering. This applies to shifts in Russia–Ukraine relations as well. I should also add that the Ukrainian economy is very strongly tied to the West, and it is dependent on western subsidies and loans. And in terms of its foreign policy, it has long lacked independence in the big game between ...
... he made during his campaign and now as the president-elect allow us to conclude that Ukraine’s new leader does not yet have a clear idea of how Ukrainian society could... ... policy will be a continuation of sorts of his predecessor’s policy simply because elections to the Verkhovna Rada will only be held this autumn (unless, of course, the... ... easy to revise international contacts and arrangements over a few days.
Relations with Russia
The new President’s balancing act will be a complicated one: today, part of...
... Russia Parliament, to label the election process as non-legitimate. For example, Alexey Pushkov
pointed out
that Russia has all the reasons not to recognise the results of upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine: “Adopting the law forbidding the Russian citizens to observe the Ukrainian elections, Ukraine has broken up its international obligations, counting on the West that will forgive everything one more time." The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has also criticised the ban, and on 15 March
added
24 Russians ...
... whereas the US don’t. Overall, supports stability and security in general terms, but when it comes to details, this becomes very different and I think it’s going to be, for instance, easier to find some common understanding on Syria, rather than on Ukraine. It is too sensitive because the positions are completely confrontational. Then, it depends on how it evolves, but if the EU continues to perceive that Russia is meddling or interfering with elections and issues, including social media activity and these media outposts like Russia Today and Sputnik, that of course will maintain this distress at a very high level.
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The US space agency has forked out $490m for six seats for its astronauts to get to the ISS on board one of the Russian Federal Space Agency's (Roscosmos) Soyuz spacecraft. Nasa's space shuttles were stopped in 2011 as the organisation set about sending its astronauts to the ISS on board privately developed spacecrafts like SpaceX. However, a shortfall in funding ...
... any possible change. The tendency of deteriorating turnout in CEE countries seems to be a trend for the running decade, and Russia, with fluctuation around 60-ish %, is not an exemption. I am convinced that problems with lethargic political culture goes ... ... influences the other more.
Small comparison to other countries from the region, which operate under slightly different conditions: Ukraine’s electoral turnout at parliamentary elections has been gradually decreasing between 2002 and 2012 from 69.5% to 58.99%. [6] Similar tendencies are seen also in Slovakia,...
