... the growing giants of international politics, their colossal demographic size in itself puts internal issues in first place. Foreign policy activity fades into the background and is considered only in the context of the internal struggle for unity (Russia, China, India) or the retention of power by elites, who have become practically irreplaceable in recent decades (the USA and the largest European countries).
This objective process has two consequences that are of interest on a theoretical and practical level. First, there is growing confusion among those whose professional responsibility is to talk about international ...
... that the United States sent to Russia a couple of weeks ago. In Washington they now claim that they did their best having informed Moscow of a high probability of a large-scale terrorist attack on the Russian soil a couple of weeks ago. However, in Russia they argue that the information from Washington was very general, unclear and therefore not really usable. There are thousands and thousands of popular public spaces in Moscow, and if the warning did not contain any reference to specific probable targets, the net value of the warning was limited at best. Moreover, in Moscow they accuse the United States ...
... eastward expansion as a guarantee of security in Europe, and that if Russia wins in Ukraine, Europe will be the next target of its strikes, and therefore NATO must support Ukraine, keeping Russia out of Ukraine.
Whatever the special features of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, like all wars it has caused enormous suffering on both sides, with hundreds of thousands of military personnel and civilians killed and wounded, cities and houses reduced to rubble, the accumulation of hundreds of years of hard work destroyed, and the creation of lasting and even indelible hatreds between peoples. The continuation ...
The latest wave of sanctions does not bring qualitative changes—their impact on the Russian economy and its relations with foreign partners is unlikely to be fundamental
Amid the second anniversary of the start of the Special Military Operation (SVO) in Ukraine, a number of Western countries and associations launched a new set of sanctions ...
... Next Warfighting Domain
The Treaty does not impose specific restrictions on the peaceful use of nuclear energy in space. The Russian Space Agency is now proceeding with an ambitious plan to create an unmanned nuclear-powered spaceship for Solar system ... ... of us depend on satellites more and more. Today, they are widely used by both public and private sectors, and every year thousands of satellites arrive in already crowded orbits. To blind even a few of them—for example, with high-precision laser beams—would ...
... 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 ... ... essentially legitimized the occupation of the Palestinian territories by recognizing Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem as the official capital of the State of Israel. In doing so, the United States completely abandoned the “two states for ...
... each other but also to
middle powers and small states
. At least three out of the five NWSs (nuclear weapon states)—China, Russia and the US—have direct stakes in the region. However, the crippled arms control system has not been trilateralized as ... ... Washington’s stockpiles still surpass those of Beijing roughly tenfold, even though China is
predicted
to have about a thousand nuclear warheads by 2030. Moreover, preventing bilateral arms control arrangements from crumbling—let alone strengthening ...
... sustainable and predictable path of development. The liberation of cities, first and foremost Mariupol, Artemovsk and Avdeevka, are clear signs of the Kiev regime’s agony and the failure of the West's anti-Russian policy.
Source:
Embassy of the Russian Federation in the USA
... systems. However the discussions will not be focused on differences, but on the search for common ground on the principal of consensus and taking into account each other's positions. Isn't that the essence of genuine multipolarity?
Source:
Embassy of Russia in the USA
Europe is finished, and Russia’s geographical and cultural advantages means it doesn’t have to go down with the sinking ship
By
Professor Sergey Karaganov,
ho
norary chairman of Russia’s Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and academic supervisor at the School of ...
