Search: USSR,USA,Russia (23 materials)

 

Great Powers and Their Allies: The Experience of Global Confrontation

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 States and Europe, then Moscow would have ... ... is negligible, despite the fact that 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 conflict with the West, which ...

28.03.2023

Forgotten and Unforgettable Science Diplomacy: Towards the Anniversary of Lacy-Zarubin Agreement

... celebration of the anniversary, given the current amplitude of tension between Moscow and Washington. This is not 1988, when the USSR post office issued a commemorative stamp in honor of the 30th anniversary of the agreement, which by that time had already ... ... serve as just another evidence. Happy anniversary, fellow scientists! Take care. This study was financed from the grant of the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 18-78-10123-P); https://rscf.ru/project/18-78-10123/ ; https://rscf.ru/project/21-78-03019/ ...

27.01.2023

What Is a Sovereign State?

... of which states will survive in the new 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 of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, Vladimir ... ... decades and, after the Second World War, 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 empires, whose metropolises are located ...

05.08.2022

Kissinger and the Fight for Russia

... in Ukraine really turns out to be very long, which, apparently, is the case, then the elementary needs of survival will force Russia to get rid of what binds it to Europe, Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev. In the event that the growing ... ... the next 25 years (1945 — 1970), this order was “finalised” during the war in Korea, the US intervention in Vietnam, the USSR’s military actions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, several indirect wars between the USSR and the US in the Middle East,...

30.05.2022

The Nuclear Triad: Alternatives from the Days Gone By

... one component of this “package.” Nuclear superpowers, such as the United States, Russia and China, have all the three components (the United States, however, lacks the... ... could at that time offer the capability of delivering nuclear weapons across many thousands of kilometers, which was the ultimate requirement in the stand-off between the... ... them to strike four targets within a range of up to 2000 km. [3] At the same time, the USSR was designing an air-launched modification of the R-13 (SS-N-4 Sark) SLBM; unlike...

03.09.2021

A ‘New Cold War’ has already started, but Russia & China are winning against a ‘weakening’ West, says former Kremlin adviser

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 ... ... 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 ...

05.08.2021

Isolation Can Only Be Splendid

The fight against the pandemic changed Russia from the inside and these changes are more important than any foreign policy manoeuvres or adaptation to international ... ... China, and attempts to create a new system of relations with Russia’s neighbours: the countries that emerged from the former USSR. The latter can be interpreted as a distancing from them, to some extent. The acute conflict between Russia and the West ...

21.04.2021

Russia and China in the Arctic: Cooperation, Competition, and Consequences

... 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... ... 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...

01.04.2020

Antarctica: 200 Years of Peace

... to get a sector? Sergey Lavrov: Nobody tried to get any sectors. Antarctica, which was discovered 200 years ago by the first Russian expedition of Faddey Bellinsgauzen and Mikhail Lazarev, is a continent where international relations, as it was decided ... ... Back then, the Soviet Union and the United States made a joint statement on peremptory non-recognition of any claims and refusal to divide Antarctica into sectors in order to preserve the continent as the common heritage of the humankind where research ...

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 ... ... The choice to weaponize internet technologies to influence other countries’ domestic politics, for instance, has provoked accusations from such important partners as Germany and France but failed to advance Russia’s political goals. Regarding elections ...

19.11.2019
 

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    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
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    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
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