... countries with no security obligations to the US have reacted differently. They reject being treated as clients, especially when it all comes down to money flowing to America.
Hence the surprise in Washington when so many states line up for BRICS+ or SCO+. They are not necessarily embracing Russia or China unconditionally; they are signaling their refusal to live by rules drawn elsewhere.
Russia’s place
Against this backdrop, Russia finds itself not marginalized but central. Western isolation efforts only underscored Moscow’s role as a key pole around which non-Western states can organize. For ...
President Xi Jinping's official visit to Moscow symbolizes not only the stability of Sino-Russian relations, but also their development and enhancement
Chinese President Xi Jinping will come to Moscow on May 9, 2025, to attend the Victory Day parade marking 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe. On top of participating to this ...
The Russian and the Indian approaches to security matters compliment each other and should generate the synergy needed to address ... ... harmonize their visions of the Asian security futures; this chemistry was manifested once again when Mr Modi has chosen to visit Moscow in July of 2024 on his first foreign trip after becoming the Prime Minister for the third time.
However, security concerns ...
... counterterrorism component, should become more effective.
Intelligence services of Iran, Russia and Uzbekistan, as well as agencies of the CIS and CSTO, are now cooperating... ... positive results. In February 2024, head of Uzbekistan’s State Security Service Abdusalom Azizov visited Kabul—a sign of high-level cooperation. The information provided... ... terrorist groups, where threats much greater than those seen today would be brewing for the SCO member states and other regional stakeholders.
Alexandra Perminova:
The Role of...
The price of US security guarantees in the event of a direct conflict, for example, with Russia, is quite small
Everyone, in fact, understands that the price of US security guarantees in the event of a direct conflict,... ... organisations are almost total opposites: NATO is an old military alliance created in the very first years of the Cold War, while the SCO is a young association that appeared only 10 years after its end. NATO has a powerful infrastructure for collective military ...
The whole idea that someone—be it Moscow, Washington or Beijing—can ‘lose’ India looks excessively arrogant, if not completely preposterous
Is Russia losing India? They raise this question at practically every conference, workshop or an expert meeting on Russian-Indian relations since the times of the Soviet disintegration in early 1990s. Quite often, the predominant views expressed by participants ...
... trends
The Rector of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the... ... variable geometry and a huge potential for further development, coming from life. The SCO, BRICS and EAEU are vivid embodiments of this trend. They oppose the cumbersome... ... survival of the state. The EWS in Ukraine shows that the use of force is induced by the refusal to fulfill obligations under signed international agreements, such as Minsk-2....
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 ... ... Policy Writer Tom O'Connor about the state of the conflict and its implications for Moscow's relationships with the international community, including other leading powers... ... their integration associations do not want to participate in the anti-Russian "crusade" instigated from Washington.
While we know that Russian officials have stated...
In Africa, Moscow is moving from “flexible geometry” toward agile and parallel dialogue structures, which entails nuanced and subtle work
Since the early days of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, the diplomacy of the Сollective West has been striving to isolate Moscow, punishing it for resolving the conflict in Donbass. However, one cannot talk about isolation without accounting for the position ...
RIAC, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International Studies at Fudan University Report #78 / 2022
RIAC, Institute of ... ... quarter of 2022.
That was the period when international environment and increasing global confrontation significantly influenced Moscow— Beijing relations. The authors of the report concentrate on how recent international events influence Russia’s and China’s ...
