The Eurasian Economic Union: State of Affairs
Михаил Мухаметдинов
12.05.2020
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Russia and China in the Arctic: Cooperation, Competition, and Consequences
... secured a permanent presence there by establishing a coal concession on the archipelago. In 1926, the Soviet government staked a claim to an enormous chunk of the 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 points on the Kola and Chukotka peninsulas all the way to the North Pole. The first ship sailed along the Northern Sea Route in 1932. It was in that period that ...
01.04.2020
Antarctica: 200 Years of Peace
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya 1 television channel for the documentary Antarctica: 200 Years of Peace, Moscow, February 2, 2020 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya 1 television channel for the documentary Antarctica: 200 Years of Peace, Moscow, February 2, 2020 Sergey Brilyov : Good afternoon, Mr Lavrov. Sergey Lavrov: Good afternoon. Sergey Brilyov: I don’t suppose you’ve been to Antarctica? Sergey Lavrov: Not yet, unfortunately. Sergey Brilyov: ...
04.02.2020
Russia’s Comeback Isn’t Stopping With Syria
Russia is back and here to stay. Others had better accept it and learn to deal with it — without undue expectations, but also without inordinate fear. For many in the West, Russia’s return to the world stage over the past few years has come as a surprise, and not an especially pleasant one. After the downfall of the Soviet Union, the country was written off as a regional power, a filling station masquerading as a state. Five years later, however, Russia is still resilient, despite the Western...
19.11.2019
A New Era of Arms Control: Myths, Realities and Options
Only the continuation of nuclear arms control can create the political and military conditions for eventual limitations of innovative weapons systems and technologies, as well as for a carefully thought through and phased shift to a multilateral format of nuclear disarmament. Only the continuation of nuclear arms control can create the political and military conditions for eventual limitations of innovative weapons systems and technologies, as well as for a carefully thought through and phased...
28.10.2019
The End of the Cold War: 30 Years On
... did to take the world away from a nuclear catastrophe. Then, though, very few could hear through the official Kremlin fanfare the first chimes of the bell tolling the end of the Cold War. Had Gorbachev not come to power, the transformation of the USSR’s politics, economy and military known as perestroika would not have happened. Or if it had, it would have been much later. One of perestroika’s core elements was the cardinal shift in the Soviet Union’s foreign policy. Had it remained the ...
23.10.2019
Russia in a Eurasian Triple Entente, with excerpts from Vadim Tsymbursky and Halford Mackinder
... and privations were so severe they pushed a tottering Tsarist Russia over the brink of revolution. Later, against Nazi Germany, the partners were shuffled around in this game of geopolitical musical chairs, but the song remained the same – let the USSR bleed for Britain and the US, who were waiting in the wings to claim victory and pick up the spoils. America emerged as the principal beneficiary of that war, while things did not go according to plan for the British, who ever since have been relegated ...
02.10.2019
Bridges to India
Marshal Bulganin and Premier Khrushchev visited Bangalore, India in the 1950s and planted two tall trees there with great pomp and ceremony, to signify the growing solidarity between India and the USSR. It is said the Bulganin tree started growing at a slant right away and toppled over a few years later (to be replanted discreetly in a less prominent space). Apparently, a few years after that, the Khrushchev tree also toppled over. Source: liders....
16.09.2019
Russian re-industrialization dangers – lessons from Japan and USA
... collapse of the Soviet Union. Because of that terrible decade, Russia finds itself once again having to regroup and rebuild, to get back to the position of technological superiority that had reached its peak, ironically, just before the dissolution of the USSR. It is well known that Russia successfully accomplished several cycles of re-industrialization and modernization, going back to the ‘Great Reforms of 1861. After the precipitous drop of the First World War and Civil War came the recovery of the ...
11.09.2019
“We win, they lose” – Wonderful world of Binary categorisations
... ceasefire, no peace conference, no formal treaty and guaranties, no expression of interests and settlement. Domestically, there was no general debate – even within the Soviet Communist Party ranks, there was no popular vote or referendum (if not for the USSR, at least for the RF), nor the Parliament’s decision to endorse it. Just an off-hand decree. After that, only the gazing facial expression of than Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who circles around and unconvincingly repeats: “we ...
11.09.2019
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