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On May 23, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in partnership with The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, held the fourth online international high-level expert round table, dedicated to the trends in the development of world politics in the context of acute recent crises

On May 24, 2022, the University of Milan (Italy) held an international academic conference in a hybrid format on complex cultural, geopolitical, international, and legal dimensions of the Ukrainian crisis, its origins, context, and long-term consequences

The formation of the platforms of the Global South will raise the potential for the use of national currencies and the de-dollarization of trade

On May 24, 2022, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held a round table titled “Regional Dimensions of Russia — India Partnership under the New Circumstances”. RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov delivered welcoming remarks

Current nuclear arsenals probably won’t cause a global “nuclear winter”—nonetheless, they will inevitably produce unpredictable geophysical, climatic, and biological consequences

On May 20, 2022, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a round table discussion on Russia and NATO in the framework of Euro-Atlantic security

From personnel to propaganda and from strategy to statecraft, the two competing post-Soviet models are being put to the test. The outcome will have repercussions that go far beyond Europe

On May 19, 2022, Oxford Process, a British expert think tank, held the eighth high-level international expert meeting on the challenges of resolving the Russian-Ukrainian crisis and the future of European security

The West’s anti-China rhetoric and the idea of mounting NATO presence in the Indo-Pacific meet with a critical reception from most Asian states

Agreeing to symbolic, if politically painful concessions, might be the only way for the U.S. to make sure Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon

Which trends seen in the West reflect Finland’s and Sweden’s possible entry into NATO

Q&A by Alexander Gasyuk, Rossiyskaya Gazeta’s foreign affairs correspondent