... during the coronavirus pandemic, when the least affluent segments of the population suffered the most. In the USA, this led to enormous human losses, which, due to the uniqueness of the local socio-economic structure, no one, in essence, cared about. In Russia and Europe, the death of citizens from the disease has been compounded by colossal expenses for various social programmes and healthcare. As a result of active efforts by states to reduce the immediate effects of the 2008-2009 crisis and the pandemic in 2020 ...
... or more united. The challenge posed by Russia has, so the story goes, united allies ready to stand together against aggressive imperialist autocrats.
In reality, the mood is complex. The main source of danger is now perceived not to be an adversary (Russia) but rather a leading ally (the United States). The internal political struggle in America – the main casualty of which has so far been military aid to Kiev – and the likelihood of Donald Trump entering the White House are forcing Western European states to consider the unthinkable. Will the United States abandon NATO altogether and shift its priorities? After all, Washington’s declining interest in the Old World is not an anomaly of Trumpism, but a steady trend since the beginning of ...
... way. A significant part of issues are related, again, to the long-standing imbalances rooted in the dominance of dollar and euro. An increase in the use of national currencies - such as renminbi, rubles, rupees, dirhams or others - in mutual trade will ... ... threats of “allegedly legal” seizure of foreign reserves they are digging themselves into a deeper hole.
We are convinced that Russian Chairmanship will contribute to practical results in all above-mentioned areas and provide an additional impetus to cooperation ...
... out”
in small towns and villages in the eastern part of the country.
It is in our power and interest to use this colossal human capital to destroy unnecessary bridges between the Siberian hinterland, the large administrative centers and the rest of Russia, and to reunite the great geographical and civilizational axis of history. The reorientation of the self-awareness and thinking of all our compatriots, the unity with the glorious Siberian past, present and future in the interests of the whole country will certainly ...
... about 15 years now.
They need an external enemy; Josep Borrell [the EU’s top foreign affairs official] called the world around the bloc a jungle last year. Indeed, in the past, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the sanctions adopted by the EU [against Russia] were necessary first and foremost to unite the European Union and prevent it from collapsing.
The German and Western European elites have an inferiority complex in, what is for them, a now-monstrous situation, where their part of the world is ...
... highest Areopagus of the international community. Second, Europe's economic opportunities and potential are exceptionally great. Germany remains one of the leading economic powers in the world, far ahead of even China in some indicators, not to mention Russia and India. Third, European representatives participate in the work of most major international institutions and occupy leading positions in shaping their agenda. All this, like many other things, makes it impossible to treat Europe with disdain. It keeps us from completely ...
... 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 been exhausted. Therefore, the current confrontation between Russia and the West manifests itself ...
... their national strategy, that is now causing the greatest concern.
However, we have no reason to think that the changes taking place in the world will be rapid and dramatic - revisionism by its nature does not imply sudden movements. We see how cautious Russia and the United States are about the likelihood of an escalation of their differences in Eastern Europe. China and the United States are also showing serious restraint and skilfully resolve their differences without bringing them into direct conflict. The fact that thousands of human lives become the price for general revisionism is a huge tragedy....
... – breaking the vectorization of sabotage-through-proxy from afar.
In particular, the (de facto existing) geo-political buffer represented by Eastern Europe could use rational solutions [84], today more than ever. The economic complementarity between Europe and Russia is akin to differing “thermodynamic chemical potentials”, which gives rise to a driving force for vigorous commerce - that does not stop with the current sanctions’ hype (precisely as thermodynamics shows, [65]). This flow is profitable to ...
... positions are humiliating. Moreover, in a number of cases, as it happens, for example, with Kazakhstan, a weak political system and total dependence on the West leave no options other than ritual adaptation to the requirements of the United States and Europe. For Russia, such an imitation model of participation in international life was suitable only at separate, very isolated stages of modern history.
In other words, the decades since the end of the Cold War have given us a wealth of examples confirming that ...
