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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s Article for South Africa’s Ubuntu Magazine, August 21, 2023

Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director General, and Feng Yujun, Deputy Director of the Institute of International Studies, Director of the Center for Russia and Central Asia Studies at Fudan University, addressed the participants with welcoming remarks

The rights of a religious organization are best protected at the national and regional levels rather than internationally

The conflict in Libya continues to be a key issue for North Africa

Such sanctions are unlikely to ensure the blockade of Russia desired by the Western initiators. This was not achieved even with respect to Iran, whose economy is smaller than Russia's

Washington spent a century trying to spread its ideology to Moscow. Now it has  sanctioned our most ardent capitalists. How to even describe this sort of hypocrisy?

I believe the current crisis does not give incentives for the mainstream expert community in Russia to open up to the West anytime soon

Restoring the arms control foundation will make it possible to expand the dialogue to other types of weapons and military technologies, gradually involve third nuclear powers in the process, and strengthen nonproliferation regimes for weapons of mass destruction. Regardless of the changing world order, this is the only way to prevent the impending collapse of international security

Аn increasingly optimal strategy for entrepreneurs is a complete withdrawal from the Western markets, the search for alternative suppliers in friendly countries, as well as reliable mechanisms for financial transactions that are not related to the US dollar or other Western currencies

A golden route to the economic prosperity of Iran?

When al-Sisi became the country’s new president in 2014, Russia and Egypt entered a new stage in their bilateral relations

The whole idea that someone—be it Moscow, Washington or Beijing—can ‘lose’ India looks excessively arrogant, if not completely preposterous