... differentiated response to each part. In dealing with Russia, the priority should be to cut short any further Russian attempt to de-legitimize an election by hijacking voter registration lists and electronic poll books. This only has a chance if done through diplomacy, treating it as a question of national security—which it is—striving to agree on red lines, and ensuring that adequate verification measures are in place.
Russia’s cyber effort to imperil critical U.S. infrastructure by manipulating the ...
... crises like thus happened before? How can Russia avoid becoming the “greatest threat” in a universal sense? And how can we emerge from this difficult period in the relations between Russia and the West? Alexander Panov, RIAC member and Head of the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO talks about current problems and prospects for their resolution.
A diplomatic crisis with attempts to isolate a country: has anything like this ever happened before and what was the outcome?
Andrey Kortunov:
Four Simple ...
What, if this is a false flag?
Andrey Kortunov:
Return of the Dungeons of the Seven Towers
The atrocious crime committed in Salisbury
led to a massive avalanche of diplomatic expulsions unprecedented in the contemporary history of international relations. The UK leadership can now claim a major foreign policy victory — the display of solidarity with London was more than impressive. Short of becoming truly global, it mobilized most of NATO and EU members with the United States alone, expelling...
The Cold War demonstrated that expulsions of diplomats produce no positive results whatsoever
For several centuries, the Ottoman Empire had a fairly peculiar custom. Each time the Sublime Porte had a falling out with another country, and war became imminent, the hostile state’s ...