The Sunday coup d’état apparently came to be a by-product of the more general political process in Guinea, following up on the events of October, 2019
“Guinea is beautiful: we don’t need to rape it anymore. We just need to make love to her.”
— Mamady Doumbouya
More often than not, news coming from countries in Africa remain somewhere on the periphery of our news feeds, seemingly carrying little significance for global politics and world economy as compared to other macro-regions. Many of us, Russians...
... building, personal and public security, etc. The linear increase of private and public consumption is not sustainable; it will give way to the much more nuanced indicators of ‘smart consumption’. Moreover, the whole concept of the ‘consumption society’ will undergo quite radical changes. Countries will more and more often compete with each other in terms of the overall opportunities for self-fulfillment which they can offer to their citizens rather than in simple GNP per capita terms.
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On July 23–24, 2021, 49th regular plenary meeting of the International Business Elite Forum, organized semiannually under the auspices of the RAND Business Leaders Forum since 1997, was held online.
On July 23–24, 2021, 49th regular plenary meeting of the International Business Elite Forum, organized semiannually under the auspices of the RAND Business Leaders Forum since 1997, was held online.
The following reports were presented by RIAC members at the meeting: Andrey Kortunov spoke about Moscow’s...
On June 26–27, 2021, International Schiller Institute held an online conference For the Common Good of All People, Not Rules Benefiting the Few! The participants of the conference included experts, public figures, politicians and journalists from the USA, Europe, Asia, and Russia.
On June 26–27, 2021, International Schiller Institute held an online conference
For the Common Good of All People, Not Rules Benefiting the Few!
The participants of the conference included experts, public figures, politicians...
The Soviet Union collapsed long ago; this date still unites us
I was born in 1957, twelve years following World War II, which is not a long time in the grand scheme of things. When I was a child, a ghostly echo of the Great War came back to us. We saw war veterans with no legs travelling on commuter trains between Moscow and the suburbs. We listened to wartime songs blasting out from street radio speakers. We held in our hands the first commemorative rouble coin marking the 20
th
anniversary of...
... already-existing Italian conflicts.
Tolerance remains a complicated issue in the West and Russia alike. The challenge, though, remains in the need to account for the connection between the notions of tolerance, social security, and the development of the society. The West tends to adopt a broader perspective on tolerance when compared to Russian practices. In Europe, the notions of ‘tolerance’ is informed by ‘active cooperation’ rather than merely ‘patience’, as is the case in Russia.
There ...
... throw off the shackles of communism by aiming to re-join the European family of nations in order to get rid of the highly unjust backwardness stigma.
In doing so, the ‘
shock therapy
’ reforms were injected into the newly formed fabric of the Polish society, aiming to ‘Europeanize’ Poland.
The understandable desire to catch up with the Western neighbours resulted in implementing unprecedented hyper-liberalizing programs in the 2000s, which couldn’t be found in the West and weren’t required ...
... the sources: that is, to start working with students and young specialists in different scientific and technological fields, though employing a modern basis. In particular, we ought to teach what the role of the inventor and the creator is in modern society, outline what risks and difficulties await them on their thorny path from a new idea to its implementation. We need to remind them of Niccolo Machiavelli’s warnings that new ideas will not always be readily accepted by the public. And we need ...
RIAC and IISS of Peking University Report #66 / 2021
RIAC and IISS of Peking University Report #66 / 2021
The report attempts to compare Russia and China’s views on the current state of affairs in African and their prospects moving forward. Experts have tried to juxtapose the strategies pursued by the two countries and assess the opportunities for expanding Russia–China cooperation on the continent. The positions presented in this report reflect the different experiences of Russia and China in...
... development of a mass circulation press; second political parallelism; that is, the degree and nature of the links between the media and political parties or, more broadly, the extent to which the media system reflects the major political divisions in society; third, the development of journalistic professionalism; and fourth, the degree and nature of state intervention in the media system".
Drawing on the four dimensions,
Hallin and Mancini
summarize three modules from Western Europe and North ...
