... Russia has to tackle
The Ukrainian conflict has effectively overhauled the challenges and threats that Russia faces. We have had next to no such precedent in our history. The accumulation of shocks and their cumulative effect can impinge both on the society and on Russia’s statehood. There will be no going back, while scenarios of the future—previously considered highly unlikely—have emerged.
The uniqueness of the threat configuration paradoxically coexists with the standard nature of the set itself. From ...
Today, the Russian society is in a state of extreme excitement and even exaltation. But public sentiments can and should be managed
The interim results of the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul unsurprisingly produced a surge of optimism among all those in Moscow who ...
... Breakthrough’ is a key slogan for a new generation of the political elite. The country is ruled by a coalition which has nothing in common either with the Soviet past, or with the corruption and chaos of the 1990s. It relies on the most active groups of Russian society. The coalition is composed of young technocrats, top-managers of the leading companies, young and successful politicians, and business people from Russian regions. They need, and generate, innovative growth.
The quality of governance has to meet ...
... International Schiller Institute held an online conference For the Common Good of All People, Not Rules Benefiting the Few! The participants of the conference included experts, public figures, politicians and journalists from the USA, Europe, Asia, and Russia.
On June 26–27, 2021, International Schiller Institute held an online conference
For the Common Good of All People, Not Rules Benefiting the Few!
The participants of the conference included experts, public figures, politicians and journalists ...
... Station is to be found in London. It would have been surprising if Victory Column (nicknamed Goldelse by Berliners) had been erected in Paris, Vienna, or Copenhagen rather than Berlin. The Great Victory of 1945 is a valid reason to be proud for any Russian who has not lost their historical memory and their sense of national identity. Whatever happened next, this remains our celebration, our triumph, and our truth!
Why is it, then, that each time I remember June 22, I get goosebumps as my hands involuntarily ...
... backwardness stigma.
In doing so, the ‘
shock therapy
’ reforms were injected into the newly formed fabric of the Polish society, aiming to ‘Europeanize’ Poland.
The understandable desire to catch up with the Western neighbours resulted in implementing ... ... actions was driven by the desire to oppose the East (and its own past), something rooted in the feeling of superiority towards Russia, on the one hand, and a deep inferiority complex towards the West, on the other.
Still haunted by the ghosts of the communist ...
RIAC and IISS of Peking University Report #66 / 2021
RIAC and IISS of Peking University Report #66 / 2021
The report attempts to compare Russia and China’s views on the current state of affairs in African and their prospects moving forward. Experts have tried to juxtapose the strategies pursued by the two countries and assess the opportunities for expanding Russia–China cooperation ...
... the media industry, the influence of the state is also ubiquitous.
Ivanitsky
believes the state "has produced practically unsolvable tension for the media themselves trying to function both as commercial enterprises and as institutions of the society", even though Russia has achieved rapid development in its advertising and media market. Hypothetically, these tensions between the media and the state are supposed to be the "
decentralized market competition as a vital antidote to political despotism
"....
... science and technology. This is a time-consuming and costly task. Many weapons systems do not allow for the resolution of current foreign policy tasks. But they guarantee that at a certain stage, Moscow will not witness the fate of Belgrade in 1999. Russia has the ability to asymmetrically contain the United States, even if the latter is superior.
2. Consistently build a state based on the rule of law, openness of society, and high management efficiency. It will be more difficult to shatter such a state from the outside, no matter how active propaganda, information warfare and intelligence operations are. Cleansing and excessive “verticalisation” will give ...
... to differentiate the interests of governments and their respective citizens has been an underlying cause of many misconceptions
The mainstream media make frequent reference to the idea that the United States is viewed negatively by the majority of Russians. Similarly, we are accustomed to hearing that Russia – understood as the Russian authorities — is hostile to America. In both cases, we are dealing with purposely broad generalizations that are inherently misleading. It cannot be said that ...
