On June 13-14, 2016, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, Deputy Director on Science of RAS Institute for Oil and Gas Studies Vassily Bogoyavlensky, RIAC Program Manager Lyudmila Filippova and MGIMO Senior Lecturer Igor Istomin were in Toronto at international conference “
Ukraine, Syria and the Arctic – From Challenges to Solutions” sponsored by the Institute for
21st Century Questions
, the
Global Brief magazine
and the
Canadian Forces College
. The event was also attended...
Ukraine has another crisis facing it and it is one which is not, so far being mentioned, as far as I can determine in any of the various (and many) media outlets and it is a crisis, which, I suggest, is no less serious than the one's facing it right now. The only difference being that this is a crisis just waiting in the wings, somewhere further up the track: for the train to hit the buffers sometime within say the next five to ten years. And, when it does eventually hit - it is going to hit those...
“Shields up – Red Alert,” was the going-into-battle command of the star ship’s Enterprise’s captains: made immortally famous by the likes of Captain James. T. Kirk, of the original Star Trek series, and Captain Jean Luke Pickard, of Star Trek, the Next Generation. Today, we are now witnessing a similar battle cry, emanating from the various countries of the EU and it is not looking good. Something has, somewhere, somehow, gone radically wrong with the original concept...
