... possibility of a
nuclear conflict
between Moscow and Washington. This issue has become even more acute in recent days when senior officials of the U.S. administration began sending us direct signals warning against the use of nuclear weapons in the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. Moreover, threats against us have started to be heard from the official establishment.
Princeton University has even made
predictions
that millions of Americans and Russians would perish in the exchange of
nuclear strikes
. Sometimes it feels ...
... legal order. The former ideological antagonism of capitalism-communism is being replaced by another, democracy-authoritarianism, which is also designed to prolong Western dominance. As the non-Western world's response to Western sanctions pressure on Russia over the Ukraine crisis shows, this time we can judge the West's self-isolation and the marginalization of Euro-Atlantic politics to a regional level, ceasing to be global (in contrast to how it was in both World Wars and the Cold War).
5.
Forming the basis for ...
Washington is not interested in establishing peace and tranquility in Ukraine
Hours after Russian President
Vladimir Putin
ushered in a new phase to the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine with a partial nationwide military mobilization, his longtime top diplomat, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, spoke with
Newsweek
Senior Foreign ...
... from all the territories taken over during the special military operation but also a restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity
within the 1991 borders
, including in Donbass and in Crimea.
Andrey Kortunov:
Three Scenarios for the End of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Meanwhile, leaks of the latest one-and-a-half-hour
phone conversation
between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz suggest that the Kremlin is not going to make any concessions in the near future either....
... control – or face the consequences. Kiev refused, and hostilities began. Russia’s official reason for unleashing force was defending the two newly recognized republics which had asked for military assistance.
Shortly after the start of hostilities Russia and Ukraine began peace talks. In late March 2022 at a meeting in Istanbul, Moscow demanded that Zelensky’s government recognize the sovereignty of the two Donbass republics within their constitutional borders, as well as Russia’s own sovereignty over ...
... and support the implementation of concluded agreements. The
implementing role of the OSCE
was evident after, in July 2014, it followed the appeal of the foreign ministers of the Normandy group to deploy the OSCE observers on the Russian side of the Russia-Ukraine border by establishing the OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk.
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Following the Geneva meeting,
the United States
maintained relatively low profile, with the exception of a short period in 2017–2019 when its ...
...
Experts’ presentations drew upon proven international experience and precedents for resolving territorial disputes in international conflicts.
The following issues of territorial integrity in the conflict between the two countries were discussed: Ukraine's red lines in territorial matters; territorial goals of Russia; the role and the possibility of introducing international administration in disputed territories; the possibility of holding a referendum in the disputed territories and its consequences.
Like the first event, the second expert round table was ...
... that many in the Russian elite are asking for a definition of “victory.” What is your definition?
It is a moving target. The minimum is the liberation from the Kievan regime of Donbas, which is in its final stages, and then of southern and eastern Ukraine. Then, Russia’s aim should probably be that the territory left under Kievan control will be neutral and fully demilitarized.
Ukraine is an important but small part of the engulfing process of the collapse of the former world order of global liberal imperialism ...
The Russia-Ukraine conflict is the most radical international political change to date, and the most difficult political choice China has yet faced
When talking about external challenges for China–Russia relations, we should first clarify what ...
... key participant in the latter.
Long gone are the days when Moscow could straddle the divide between the West and the non-West. Following the 2014 Ukraine crisis, the G8 reverted to its previous G7 format; in the wake of the Russian military action in Ukraine last February, Russian-Western confrontation degenerated into a full-blown “h
ybrid war,”
complete with an actual confrontation – if so far a proxy one.
Having tried, after the end of the Cold War, to become part of the new West, and having failed at that endeavor,...
