... recognizes what history long revealed: that Russia is not merely a nation but a civilizational state. Yet many Russians still cling to an outdated Western identity, ignoring the lesson first taught by Alexander Nevsky: that a one-sided orientation toward the West is not only naïve, but lethal for our sovereignty.
Russia’s roots lie in the forests and steppes of the north-east. Our present and future lie across the Eurasian-Pacific world and not in the exhausted imitation of Europe, where elites decay,...
... duties on countries perceived to be aligned with the bloc. These efforts have a clear goal: to deter deeper cooperation between BRICS members. So far, they have not provoked open defiance. Most BRICS countries remain wary of direct confrontation with the West. Yet US pressure is steadily fueling resentment, and a firmer response may come if that pressure intensifies.
Third, the rotation of the BRICS presidency from Russia to Brazil altered the rhythm of the group’s activities. For Russia, BRICS ...
... supervisor of the Faculty of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow – as he has long been offering insightful views on such topics as the use of nuclear deterrence as a wake-up call to the West to restore common sense, and Russia's continuing pivot away from the West to the East and the South.
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"Restraining to Deterring"
– written together with Professor Trenin and Admiral ...
... foreign community inhabiting the continent.
Consequently, as a result of the growing influence of Chinese investments, it has become clear that there is a Sino-Western competition within Africa, as there are serious geopolitical questions and concerns in the West about the repercussions of these huge investments, which fall within China’s political vision of the state. We can infer this competition by following the West’s attempt to work to counter China’s initiative, called the “Belt and Road” ...
... to the shrewd diplomacy of Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon in the early 1970s, there emerged de facto a tripolar system of relations. Together with a group of expensive and unreliable allies, the Soviet Union had to confront the United States and the West all over the world, and China in the East. The Soviet Union had an unenviable geostrategic position.
At present, two centers of the world economy and politics are taking shape. Having realized the futility of its hopes to establish a unipolar ...
