Washington spent a century trying to spread its ideology to Moscow. Now it has sanctioned our most ardent capitalists. How to even describe this sort of hypocrisy?
The imposition of US sanctions against the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) is something of a paradox. The RSPP reflects the interests of businessmen and companies - ie. the locomotives of the capitalist economy.
So, by definition, these are the very people who most believe in free markets.
Capitalism, in turn...
I believe the current crisis does not give incentives for the mainstream expert community in Russia to open up to the West anytime soon
At the height of the Cold War, the Esalen Institute made a difference in Soviet-US relations, initiating and maintaining some of them through Esalen Track-2 and Track-1.5 Diplomacy.
Today Multi-Track Diplomacy remains of interest. Track-2 and Track-1.5 Diplomacy seem to complement and support Track-1 efforts by creating a favorable environment for negotiations...
... to the proposal made at the meeting with soldiers’ mothers.
Labyrinths of escalation
Alexander Yermakov:
The Nuclear Triad: Alternatives from the Days Gone By and Possible Futures
However, there might be even a third motive for the President’s refusal. It fact nuclear deterrence is aimed at preventing a number of other threats, besides nuclear aggression, and this implies a first use of Russian nuclear weapons rather than a retaliatory one. In particular, the Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation ...
... anti-Russian regimes of restrictive measures can also be used as an intermediary jurisdiction for the supply of
sanctioned goods.
Ivan Timofeev:
Eleventh Package of EU Sanctions. What's New?
One of the scenarios is where an order is placed in the USA for this or that product by a firm in an allied country that is not affected by export controls, with the subsequent delivery of the product to Russia.
The next group of indicators is related to the nature of the transaction. Trying to split a transaction ...
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 are pessimistic, if not alarmist.
Yes, Russia is losing India or it might lose India in the near...
The basis of the modern international order is the procedure created by the countries of the West, and the central idea underlying this procedure is the immanent injustice of international politics
The basis of the modern international order is the procedure created by the countries of the West, and the central idea underlying this procedure is the immanent injustice of international politics. Even after Russia succeeds in Ukraine, it would be somewhat naive to expect our adversaries to change...
... United States to “refrain from steps that could prevent the resumption of the New START Treaty.”
The U.S. took a negative view of the Russian initiative, accusing Russia of violating the treaty and calling for a return to compliance. Yet, those accusations would have been released anyway. That said, administration officials tried to keep a calmer tone. In the following months, the United States announced that it would stop providing Russia with relevant information on the status of its strategic ...
... incriminates the gross violation of the so-called “rules”. This is normally followed by strict “reprimands” and quite material sanctions designed to punish the negligent culprits for their destructive behavior. As if the great powers with a thousand-year history of development, with a legitimate right to preserve and protect their cultural, civilizational and political legacy, upheld at the cost of strenuous effort, were just compulsive nihilistic maximalists, who dared to question the proposed ...
... research workshop on technological leadership in the transformation of the world order.
During the workshop, leading experts discussed key issues of global technological leadership in the new environment and considered the development policy of the USA, China, the EU, and India in the field of innovative technologies against the backdrop of growing competition.
Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director General, and Sergey Afontsev, Deputy Director for Research at the Primakov Institute of International Relations ...
I was impressed with surprisingly optimistic views expressed during most of plenary sessions and thematic panels
I've finally got back to Beijing after a four-year break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Four-year is not a lot of time in the long history of the city, but some recent changes are hard to miss. For the first time I entered China through a new gateway—the breathtaking Beijing Daxing International Airport. Though the capital never aspired to become a city of super-tall buildings, the...
