... Sanctions as a Political Signal
For example, the eighteenth package of sanctions included legal entities in third countries that, according to EU authorities, are involved in the transportation of Russian oil. These include Bellatrix Energy and Zhu Jiang (China), the Intershipping Services (India and the UAE), Twister Shipmanagement (UAE), Admiral Group (UAE), Milavous Group (UAE), 2 Rivers PTE (UAE, including its Singapore branch), Monolink, Tarabya, Aqua Ship Management (Azerbaijan), as well as Redbird ...
... heard precisely from Europe, as has been the case for centuries, and it is there that preparations for armed conflict are most demonstrative.
This rhetoric and practice are primarily aimed at Europe’s immediate neighbour, Russia, but it also affects China, with which Europe, at first glance, has no objective conflicts. This suggests that the source of our neighbours’ explosive behaviour in the West lies in processes occurring within their societies and government systems, as well as the confusion ...
... than three hundred thousand people left homeless. In the same year, an earthquake in Valparaíso claimed an estimated ten thousand lives. That year also witnessed a mining disaster in France that killed approximately eleven hundred miners.
In 1966, China’s Cultural Revolution claimed around twenty million lives; immeasurable suffering, massacres, torture and the destruction of traditional thought, customs and cultures.
Whether one believes in such correlations, in mystique or in coincidence is ...
... aggression. Across what is normally a quieter stretch of the planet, Western Europe and Japan have begun posturing with a level of militarized anxiety out of proportion to their real power. Their increasingly confrontational behavior toward Russia and China is less a sign of strength than of confusion, and a lack of confidence about their role in the emerging world order.
The roots of this run deep. Modern Western Europe and Japan are, fundamentally, post-war creations. The Second World War ended badly ...
... Action” Conference was held in Xi’an. The event was organized by the Institute of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (IREECA CASS) and Northwestern Polytechnical University, with support from the SCO China Committee on Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation.
The organizers envisaged the conference as a platform for exploring how young people could become a driving force behind advancing the SCO’s development agenda and the “Shanghai Spirit” ...
... is not success—it is a monumental failure. Abandoning a national citizenry unable to compete in the global age is political betrayal.
Failure to identify, categorize, and digitize high-potential SMEs is economic malpractice.
Study urgently how fast China, India, and BRICS nations are mobilizing around SMEs, while the West sleeps. Observe, how the United States became the first ever largest and longest most successful economy in the world on such understanding. Where did we all go so wrong for so ...
... non-Western countries largely outside the frame. Yet across Asia and Africa, distinct narratives of the Second World War have taken shape—narratives that, while not always central, nonetheless constitute important elements of their national biographies.
China and the DPRK: The Great Victory
Echoes of World War II. RIAC Special Project on how the memory of WWII influences politics and society in the world (In Russian)
A triumphalist narrative of the Second World War has taken shape in both China and the ...
On October 27, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in collaboration with the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) held a closed roundtable on "Eurasian Security in the Context of Global Turbulence: Challenges, Cooperation Formats, and Balance of Interests."
On October 27, 2025, the Russian International ...
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During the event, Russian and Chinese experts conducted a detailed analysis of the UN’s role in the contemporary international system, discussed the causes of the ongoing crisis in multilateral institutions, and assessed the prospects for Russia–China cooperation in reforming global governance.
Opening remarks were delivered by Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director General, and Sun Zhuanzhi, Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social ...
... power. The UN has own constitution, the Charter of the United Nations, its own budget, the membership fees of member states, the UN Security Council, key decision-making body that could adopt legally binding resolutions. Five nations (France, Russia, China, the UK, and US) were granted permanent status and given veto power. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), separate from the Security Council, holds annual meetings with the participation of all member states and operates permanent functional ...
