Is it necessary, to demand more?
In the event that relations between Russia and its allies were assessed in comparison with similar practices in the United ... ... relations. The United States, of course, is far ahead of its opponents — Russia and China. Over the past decades, America has been able to establish formal allied relations... ... Moscow, unlike Beijing, has formal allied relations with several countries of the former USSR. Among them, only Belarus is a reliable ally of Russia amid the current military-political...
... world is becoming increasingly relevant. It is no coincidence that the President of Russia regularly addresses this problem. In one of his recent speeches at the forum... ... actually lost their sovereignty in favour of one of the superpowers — mainly the USSR.
The second wave of sovereignty is associated with the collapse of the world colonial... ... regimes as a kind of ideal “guarantee” that the bigger neighbours — Russia or China — could more insistently indicate to their small neighbours their place in the...
The Soviet Union might have lost the first Cold War, but Russia is ahead in the rematch with the US and, this time, has every chance of coming out on top
The Soviet Union might have ... ... Soviet Union was concerned with enemies on more than one front. Now, with Beijing on the side of Moscow, Russia can utilize China as a strategic resource, he went on to say. Secondly, the country is much more prosperous than it was during the latter years of the USSR. And most importantly, the West is significantly less powerful than it was in the past.
“But, to win even against a weakening ...
... Arctic: 6.8 million square kilometers of sea, declaring it the polar territory of the USSR. As a result, the territory of the Soviet Union grew from the furthermost continental... ... providing the services of icebreakers. The vector set by Gorbachev remained central to Russian policy in the region for a quarter of a century. In the mid-2000s, the prospects... ... confrontation with Washington and a sharp decline in relations with its NATO allies.
China is thousands of miles away from the Arctic, so its interests in the region differ widely from...
... Communists and Social Democrats was being healed and within the USSR and in every nation of the so-called “Eastern bloc,” suppressed ... ... resurfacing, e.g. Bukharin.
There was a new path possible for Russia and the world, through a renovated and reunited Left or ... ... within the socialist camp, even if there was no consensus with China, in the teeth of objections from China and in the face of ... ... the notion that the search for negotiations and pacts with the USA was strategically more important than, and on a qualitatively ...
... developing economies in the “global governance” set-up, Russia and the BRICS know that traditional mainstream media and ... ... Glasnost days of Mikhail Gorbachev and the impending collapse of the USSR command economy. You can't be competitive producing,... ... in India.
Meanwhile state and parastatal companies based in China and Hong Kong use clever methods to dominate world iron ore ... ... Australia
3 Brazil
4 India
5 Russia
6 Ukraine
7 South Africa
8 USA
9 Kazakhstan
10 Iran
Top Steel Producers 2013 in millions ...
