... new binding norms might be adopted in the future, and the significance of the results already achieved within the framework of the UN GGE on IIS is also pointed out. The discrepancy has to do with the longer-term prospects of cooperation. In the long run, Russia advocates for an international convention on IIS under the auspices of the UN, while the West insists on non-binding voluntary norms, conditioning the rapid obsolescence of any document on the speed of technological advancement. Non-binding norms ...
On November 8, 2022, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with Krystyna Marty Lang, Swiss Ambassador to Russia, and Christoph Gerch, Defense Attache of the Swiss Embassy
On November 8, 2022, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with Krystyna Marty Lang, Swiss Ambassador to Russia, and Christoph Gerch, Defense Attache of the Swiss Embassy....
... but both Russia and the U.S. turn a blind eye to the crimes of non-government actors attacking the other side. In May, the Russian Foreign Ministry
called
Killnet
, a group
that has been attacking the United States and other NATO nations
, a “community of Russian programmers.” Washington, on the other hand, does not pay attention to the attacks against Russia by various pro-Ukrainian groups, primarily the IT army, in which citizens of Western nations are
involved
.
By early fall, only the ongoing investigation ...
... the UN, whose main goal was to preserve the monopoly position of the West. However, this required the appearance of formal signs of justice in the form of international law as well as participation in the highest body of the UN, the Security Council (UNSC), of Russia and China, which are immanently hostile to the interests of the USA and Europe.
The institutional form of Western dominance by force has become its final incarnation, and now the main question is whether it is possible to preserve the form following ...
... sources. All this happeend against the background of trade wars and the rise of protectionist tendencies. Of course, an additional impetus to the development of each of the crises was given by the unilateral, illegitimate sanctions imposed by Western countries against Russia. However, the West is inclined to shift all these problems from a sick head to a healthy one ...
Civitas civitati lupus est
The assertion that global problems cannot be solved by any one state alone, even the most powerful state, seems to have ...
... and beyond—almost as a magic pill for international problems and misfortunes, a miracle cure of the last resort supposed to save the world and ensure planetary security in the face of global threats. All these hopes mainly stemmed from the Soviet Union (Russia as its successor), an ally in the anti-Hitler coalition, being involved in the process of establishing the UN and enjoying the status of a permanent member of the UN Security Council with the right to make binding decisions for the international ...
... order will not reflect Western countries' underlying internal order
The emerging international order, in its very structure, shows no sign of a leading power capable of acting jointly as a dominant military and economic force. Great powers like the United States, Russia, China and India, are not cooperating. They never shared the same world order view (let alone their respective domestic ones). So far, the United States and several Western European countries are pursuing a revolutionary policy about the outside ...
... northeastern and northwestern areas, which are not under the government control, from U.S. sanctions – all of this precludes an effective restoration of economic ties in Syria as well as the country’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.
Andrey Kortunov:
Russia in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Art of Balancing
6. The UN remote monitoring mechanism is uncapable of tracking the distribution of humanitarian aid inside the province of Idlib. According to Dmitry Polyanskiy, Moscow has no doubts that the UN ...
... to stop its provocations. The record shows that a readiness to compromise was totally absent on the side of US and NATO when it came to the central issue of NATO expansion and the crafting of a European security architecture that would take into account both Ukrainian and Russian security concerns. NATO’s consistent refusal to recognize Russia’s vital interests in a modicum of security certainly made a mockery of the obligations laid out in Art. 2(3) of the UN Charter.
Indeed, in order for negotiations under article ...
... authorities agree to cooperate on the matter constructively. They should start by
removing the mines
they set. We urge you to read once again the statements made by Russian president
Vladimir Putin
on June 3 and Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov
on June 8 that Russia would guarantee the safety of such routes and would not use them in the interests of the special operation. The conclusion is that there are no obstacles from our side. The ball is in Kiev’s court now.
In addition to Odessa, we see several more ...
