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Russian policy in the Middle East region can probably be considered one of areas of most significant achievement for President Putin in recent years. With relatively small material investments and minimal combat losses, Moscow managed to transform itself ...
... poison us all, but on balance, we are at the beginning of 1,000 years of peace and prosperity and the Deep State and its Zionist underbelly are going to be put down. The bottom line is that no one – not Israel, or Saudi Arabia or the USA or Iran or Russia – no one – can start a nuclear war. Q. It is very difficult for most people to grasp the concept of stellar civilizations being present on Earth, and governments interacting with them secretly. Is there a “bridge concept” you can offer ...
Food for thought paper on the Russia-Baltic Relations This paper was written primarily for the RIAC-ECFR meeting dedicated to the security in the Baltic Sea region, which was held in early June 2019. It was designed as a food-for-thought paper, so it doesn't propose any solutions ...
The next round of sanctions may disrupt the dialogue on arms control, which is of interest to the United States The adoption of an amendment to the defense budget for 2020 by the US House of Representatives provoked a public outcry in Russia. The amendment, introduced by Brad Sherman (D), is to prohibit buying of the Russian sovereign debt in retaliation for meddling in US elections. Many Russian media outlets carried alarmist or even panicky headlines. Indeed, the amendment is far ...
... integrated approach to their possible resolution. One possible solution could be the creation of a collective regional security system that would address the challenges and threats facing the countries in the region. As mentioned in a piece published by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in 2017, the issue of determining the area and geographical boundaries of the regional security system continues to be relevant. The authors of the document thought it would be appropriate to limit the study ...
In terms of global strategic architecture, China, Russia, and the US are crucial to the world. How can Beijing and Moscow deepen cooperation? How will the 2020 US presidential elections affect Russia-US ties? Global Times (GT) reporter Lu Yuanzhi talked to Andrey Kortunov (Kortunov), director general ...
The Russian state corporation ROSATOM has played a leading role building new nuclear power plants around the world. ROSATOM owns 67% of the world’s nuclear power plants currently under construction. ROSATOM also provides a significant portion of energy ...
... littoral,” and that “it did not include many large countries such as China, India, and the Soviet bloc states” [ 2 ]. It’s clear that the topic of the crisis of the “liberal” international order has firmly entered the scientific discourse of Russian and foreign analysts. Andrey Kortunov: The Inevitable, Weird World On October 11, 2017, The New York Times drew attention to the so-called “Trans-Atlantic manifesto” prepared by a team of German foreign policy experts stating that the actions ...
... attacks on the tankers, everyone suddenly remembered that 17–18 million barrels of oil and 3 million barrels of petrochemicals pass through the Strait of Hormuz daily, not to mention liquefied natural gas from Qatar, the world’s second-largest (after Russia) exporter of natural gas. Multiple predictions were made concerning the possible consequences that blocking the Strait of Hormuz would have for the global economy. All kinds of ramifications were envisioned — most experts foresaw a major global ...
Event Report Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) held the 2nd International Conference “Strategic Visions of Russia–India Relations in a Changing World Order”, at Sapru House, New Delhi, on November 14-15, ...
| Demilitarization of the region based on Russia-China "Dual Freeze" proposal |
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| Restoring multilateral negotiation process without any preliminary conditions |
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| While the situation benefits Kim Jong-un's and Trump's domestic agenda, there will be no solution |
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| Armed conflict still cannot be avoided |
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| Stonger deterrence on behalf of the U.S. through modernization of military infrastructure in the region |
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| Toughening economic sanctions against North Korea |
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Andrey Melville, Alexey Barabashev, Alexander Obolonsky, Riccardo Mario Cucciolla
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