When assessing the current state in Russian-Armenian relations, we must consider the different visions of Yerevan and Moscow
... ... provided with both political and military-technical cover from two sides: Russia and the West. Importantly, lobbyists in Russia and in the U.S. were not competing with each... ... parliamentary elections again, despite all the opposition’s attempts to pull the shocked society to its side. And after the full restoration of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity...
... result of 2023 has been the transition to a new normal in foreign and domestic policy in Russia
The main result of 2023 has been the transition to a new normal in foreign... ... peaceful life, openness and cooperation—had become too familiar. In relations with the West, it began to wind down long before 2021.
Cracks began to appear in the late 1990s... ... military operations that are incapable of gaining the support of both the elites and society at large? Last year ended with unanswered answers to these questions; 2023 added...
... Russia has come to be known for in the wake of the Soviet Union’s demise. Russian society, which had become increasingly atomized as few made instant fortunes, is now... ... ideas to guide the country toward the future. Seen against this background, changes in Russia’s foreign policy, which are more noticeable from the outside than domestic... ... developments, are but the tip of the iceberg.
The House of Foes
Ivan Timofeev:
Ending Western Domination Is Key to the Emerging World Order. Here’s What Needs to Be Done...
Russia’s Path to the ‘World Majority’
Long before relations between Russia and the West spiralled into a comprehensive political crisis, officials and experts here were enthusiastically voicing ideas about developing ties with the rest of the world. At the administrative level, such a course began to take shape as early as the 1990s,...
... and the State Department?
The return of the unipolar world?
Andrey Kortunov:
A New Western Cohesion and World Order
Most of the current talk about the resurgence of Pax... ... today that the US is the main beneficiary of this conflict and in particular of the Russian-Ukrainian dimension.
The current crisis has undoubtedly come in handy for President... ... sense and pragmatism of Americans than to an increasingly isolationist sentiment in society. The fundamental problem in the US is not even some specific manifestation of...
... history would agree that Churchill wasn’t interested in doing it, because Churchill thought that Hitler would ultimately go for Russia because as per him, Hitler’s principal target was Russia. The French also condescended to that view. If at that time ... ... of highly underdeveloped infrastructure. now look at how amazingly they’ve progressed and transformed. And look at entire West Asia, Dubai, they have become very prosperous and major centres of global investments. And why? Hydrocarbons! They found ...
... business groups (shareholders) that try to set their agenda, exporting their alleged western values.
Exporting ‘values’
: many American values have automatically transmogrified... ... huge amount of publicity, one would not be blamed for thinking that the majority of society is the LGBQT brigade.
Irresponsibility
: English Prime Minister Liz Truss recently... ... US is behind the move, essentially because he wishes to improve trade relations with Russia. The CIA’s well-known and proven history of regime change
et al
lends much...
... (新民主), as it was called, was seen as a stopgap on the way to building a socialist society. It was still a single-party system (only it was a different party that was... ... of state power – the National People’s Congress (NPC).
Zhao Huasheng:
China and Russia: Dialog in the Face of External Challenges
It just so happens that most members... ... Chinese people aware that their understanding of “democracy” is different from Western standards? Of course they are. Are they about the abandon their system in order...
..., drug trafficking, criminal networks, are dislodged into the world periphery.
Russia has had to give up some of its ambitions and adopt new rules of the game. The country is well integrated into international institutions and regimes. It is an open society, and has become a member of the Western community. Its markets are open to foreign investments and capital. Some of the most successful Russian regions, which are most integrated into the world economy, profit a lot from the politics of domestic and international openness. However, the unsuccessful ones are depressed and face stagnation, brain-drain and capital outflow.
The Russian Federation ...
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 ... ... institutionally dependent on the EU and NATO, the nature of relations in this specific case are more complex than the relations between Western Europe and Russia. The irony is that Moscow, technically, is capable of establishing good ties with Portugal, Greece, ...