... been instrumental in stirring up anti-Russian sentiments today. Going further back, it was Britain (with its then French acolytes, and even Sardinia – Cavour wanted France to support Italian independence against Austro-Hungary), who interfered in Russia’s war against the Ottomans.
We are witnessing the same behavior today: selfish state interests, alliances (secret and public), emotion, anger, pride and greed. The future is the past, namely history. Only real statesmen understand this, those such as Bismarck (who refused to send German soldiers to the Balkans) and de Gaulle, who gave up Algeria and Morocco to stop the killing.
Resetting Minds
Why is humanity blindly ...
... related to crimes against humanity and genocide. French President Emanuel Macron announced that Paris was ready to be an example of a great power with a “responsible attitude” towards its international commitments.
Ivan Timofeev:
Unwanted Ally? Russia and the Future of the Anti-Terrorist Coalition
The Big Three – Russia, the US and China – resolutely rejected the ultimatum but this proposal quickly won the support of the vast majority of UN members. In response to the categorical rejection of any restrictions ...
... you cannot ignore the advances and innovations coming out of Russia’s robotics sector. If you are not paying attention, these developments may appear, at first, scattered and isolated. However, in reality, they represent a powerful new tool that Russia can use to expand its geopolitical influence deeper into the 21st century. And, if these or similar scenarios play out, the future of world affairs will have an entirely new variable affecting them: robots.
Speaking before the Committee for the Future of the Finnish Parliament and its Chairman Päivi Lipponen, who is heading it since 2011, RIAC Program Director covered certain trends of Russia’s development, their influence on the country’s future and relations with key international partners. Most of all, the deputies were interested in the status of the Russian research base in the humanities, and its potential for forecasting and scenario-making.
Dr. Timofeev’s presentation was ...
... foreign passport for incoming Central Asians seems a half-measure. At the same time, neither Russia's nor the EU's measures can be considered a dramatic departure from the overall drive towards a visa-free regime and the abolition of border controls.
Russia and the EU
The future of visas will hinge not only on the dynamics within the supranational associations but also on relations between them, with the relationship between the European Union and Russia providing a good example. While Brussels and Russia already have ...
... success of the late 20th and early 21st centuries was built. Following its geopolitical victory in Uzbekistan, which will in future retrospect appear Pyrrhic, China will after mid-century begin a definite and irremediable decline, beginning gradually ... ... of climate change continuing at non-critical rates of change, the Eurasian-level effects of technological change would be to Russia’s energy production advantage, while at the regional Central Asian level, demographic change would continue to increase ...
... Murghab, Tajikistan
We shall first consider the external factors. The geopolitical “centrality” of Central Asia
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and the regional nations’ need for outside aid have resulted in extensive interference by the great powers (China, Russia, the US, EU countries, India, etc.). And although this trend is likely to continue into the future, it does not have to lead to competition among great powers (the “new Great Game”). It is quite possible that they will collaborate in addressing key regional issues (such as terrorism, failed states or drug trafficking). The region ...
... agents' role in mobilizing and, above all, generating financial resources. Although most of the more extreme attempts to push the system in this direction – such as the notorious Tobin tax – have been rebuffed, they may rematerialize in future.
Conclusions for Russia
Financial Minimalism involves regulators chiefly attempting to eliminate sources of instability that relate to financial market operation, including through a radical contraction of the markets' functions and rigid control over participants.
The ...
... Conventional sources of energy (oil, gas, coal) will no longer play a dominant role and will give way to non-carbon forms of energy. The importance of new technologies, whose development foundation should be laid down now, will increase multiple times. For Russia, this means the need to change priorities to energy development in the near future.
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. Energy in a finite world: a global system analysis/ W. Hafele. – Cambridge Massachusetts: Ballinger Publ. Comp., 1981.
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. World energy and transition to sustainable development / Belyaev L.S. et al, Nauka – Novosibirsk, 2000.
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... programs of the two superpowers.
Post-Lunar Prospects
In the USSR and USA, the end of the moon race triggered off the discussion on the prospects of space activities. In the first half of the 1970ies, a big amount of analytical surveys and reports on the future of space exploration appeared. The conclusions of Soviet and American scientists were rather disappointing.
First, manned missions to the outer space were recognized technologically unfeasible. Mathematical calculations by K. E. Tsialkovsky, the Russian scientist of the XIX century, were used for the design of modern spacecrafts; other, not yet discovered, mathematical solutions were needed.
Second, the lunar program was recognized to be the limit of the possibilities of both superpowers. The ...
