The international community cannot simply allow events to unfold according to the “law of the jungle”
... ... world entered a phase characterized by brewing and accumulating new conflicts, with the Russia-Ukraine conflict being a concentrated outbreak of this trend.
The situation continues... ... conflicts between monarchies, families, religions, states, and great powers. For thousands of years, wars have been occurring continuously and without interruption. The...
... their Ukrainian clients to put the TurkStream out of operation, just as they did with the Nord Stream pipelines. The United States and its allies have placed sanctions policies at the core of what they do on the international stage, including regarding Russia, but also in other respects. This demonstrates their refusal to engage in fair economic competition and their commitment to using unfair, aggressive practices for suppressing their opponents. They imposed a plethora of sanctions on China, too. As I have already said, they do not hesitate sanctioning their allies whenever there is even a slight threat that these allies can make something ...
... necessary
After the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s, new and extremely broad opportunities for multilateral diplomacy opened up. It could be understood as the joint actions... ... multilateral diplomacy. The end of the bloc confrontation between the USSR and the USA gave hope that multilateral diplomacy would not be hampered by the contradictions... ... in the G7, and then in the G20.
Despite the losses after the collapse of the USSR, Russia still skilfully maneuverer in the new conditions. It retained its place in the...
... Gaza is far from over, but whatever the ceasefire or truce agreements, the question remains: what next?
The terrorist action undertaken by Hamas on October 7, 2023, unprecedented in its scale and brutality, and the equally unprecedented Israeli retaliation, which claimed lives of many thousands of Palestinians to result in a major humanitarian catastrophe, shocked the world community. However, interpretations of ... ... conflict is detrimental to its interests in the Muslim world. The monopolization of the peace process by the United States, in Russia’s view, was one of the reasons that led to the horrific events in the Gaza Strip and a new escalation of tensions in ...
... based on static methods to ensure their interests. Now these are, first of all, the countries of continental Europe, grouped within the European Union, and most of the states... ... contrary to the UN General Assembly.
No less obvious is the revisionism of powers such as Russia or China. It extends to those aspects of the modern international order that... ... 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. But...
For more than 30 years, Washington has failed to build a just order, which is why we are now experiencing unprecedented crises
The wars in Ukraine and in Gaza are very different; yet, they are definitely linked as two flashing indicators ... ... geo-economically sound idea of a militarily neutral country enjoying the trade, investment, and logistical benefits of its position between Russia and the European Union was dismissed by Washington as “giving the Kremlin a veto right” over its neighbor’s security ...
... between Russia and the West, there is no constructive interaction on this issue, and the work of the WG is actually undermined. A similar situation is taking place within the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – a specialized agency of the United Nations. Although ITU deals with purely technical issues, this organization has been crippled by politicization of its efforts and discrimination of the Russian side (refusal to appoint Russian representatives to leadership positions in various investigation commissions and advisory groups, revocation of entry visas, etc.). [
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... of states in the global ICT environment, which were outlined in the
2018 UNGA
resolution. These include: non-use of force or threat of force in the ICT environment, respect for state sovereignty, peaceful resolution of disputes, inadmissibility of unproven accusations of cyberattacks, etc.
In the early 2000s, this topic, largely due to the efforts of Russian diplomats, entered the agenda of most global and regional forums, including the SCO, CSTO, BRICS and others. IIS is currently one of the key topics.
According to complex expert
ratings
, Russia and the U.S. (along with China) are the leading ...
Cyberspace is increasingly becoming a major area of confrontation in the U.S.-Russia relations.
Since 1998, the UN has annually adopted a Russia-sponsored resolution titled Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security. A year ago, however, Russia and the U.S.
for the first time submitted
a joint draft ...
... longer be stopped.
The coming period will be the time for defining a new power base of the order, and it is still difficult to say which powers and to what extent will become part of it.
It is important that the great powers of the present time - the USA, Russia, China and India - are not close or, moreover, united in terms of values and understanding of the basic principles of internal order. So far, the biggest problem is the behaviour of the United States and inpidual countries of Western Europe, which, due to their internal values, are pursuing an aggressive ...
