Washington's desire to establish a dialog on arms control and risk reduction with Moscow and Beijing, albeit with each of them separately, looks very cynical
Relations between Russia and China today are stable and characterized by an elevated level of mutual trust. The rapprochement between Moscow and Beijing takes place against the backdrop of pressure from the United States and its allies at the regional and global levels....
... Moscow is deeply concerned about the safety of Russian diasporas.
Last November, Russian negotiations with Hamas helped release three Russian hostages. This June, after Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov met with senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk,
the latter pledged to have the remaining two Russian hostages released first, once a ceasefire agreement has been secured
. Marzouk also called on Moscow to be a guarantor of any ceasefire agreement with Israel, as in comparison to Washington,
Hamas considers Moscow to be a fairer arbitrator
, ...
... rationale than economic
On July 11, 2024, on the margins of the NATO Summit in Washington, the US, Canada and Finland announced a new trilateral consortium—the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or ICE Pact—with an explicit intention to challenge Russia and China in icebreaker construction and deployment. It is expected that by the end of 2024 the three nations will turn ICE into a detailed business plan with financial projections, binding commitments and specific deadlines. The pact aims to produce ...
... with the PNA leadership. All analytics prepared after such meetings are sent to Moscow and are taken into consideration when formulating Russia’s foreign policy toward Israel and Palestine.
During the visit we also had interesting meetings at the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem. We discussed the specifics of the Mission’s activities in Israel and the status of land lots that have belonged to the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission since the times of the Russian Empire: the problems related to the status of those parcels ...
... Hassakeh. These areas also have minorities from Chechnya, Circassia, Assyria and Turkmen, along with Kurds, and ancient Arab clans and tribes.
It is evident that achieving reconciliation among all conflicting factions in Syria is the desired outcome for Russia, which is entangled in conflicts with the West and the crisis in Ukraine. Moscow has taken numerous measures to facilitate normalization between Syria and Arab nations, as well as between Damascus and Ankara, ever since Russia's direct military ...
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... an ally does not guarantee that they will be able to provide assistance in time due to the distance factor.
The consistent refusal of leading Asian powers to commit to stable and formal alliance obligations is the result of their historical experience,... ..., it seems that the American presence is the only factor driving Tokyo and Seoul to pursue a policy of sanctions pressure on Russia in recent years. Without this presence, Moscow might not have significant concerns regarding the region.
Finally, the dynamics ...
On June 10, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) held a seminar in Lagos themed “Geopolitical and Geostrategic Competition in Sahel: Positions of Russia, the U.S., France and the EU.”
On June ...
For 80 years, the Atom bomb has prevented a repeat of the horrors of the 1940s – Russia needs to leverage it again to stop American aggression
Nuclear deterrence is not a myth. It kept the world safe during the Cold War. Deterrence is a psychological concept. You have to convince a nuclear-armed adversary that it will not achieve ...
... China, India, Iran and others insist on doing business without outside interference, not to speak of foreign diktat. They don’t want to dominate Eurasia: they live there, it is their home – unlike the ever-restless
“indispensable nation”
thousands of miles away. In Ukraine, the main issue for Russia has been national security, not some
“resurrection of an empire”
; in Taiwan, Beijing has advocated national reunification on a version of the Hong Kong model, again a far cry from an imperial design.
Yet, Americans have a good reason to fear ...