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The future of Japan cannot be based only on its partnerships with the US and NATO, as important as this partnership is for Tokyo. This future also depends on Japan's relations to its Eurasian neighbors

The hope for a new type of international relations based on mutual benefit, unfortunately, is unlikely to materialise in the foreseeable future

Russia’s staunch stance is to be taken seriously in Seoul

A View into the Future

New entrants in the reserve currency space can transform the global monetary system towards greater optionality and lower exposure to geopolitical risks

Sanctions now become exclusively a mechanism for causing damage

Russia is yet to realise that countries of the Global Majority, represented by Asian and Eurasian states, are not subjective, but objective allies of Moscow in its conflict with the West

We can talk about the relative novelty of the sanctions in terms of the number and intensity of the measures applied. However, for a number of qualitative characteristics, they contain patterns that have been well studied in the past

As conflict grows over the structure of the future international order, the tension between context and practice can grow as much as it shrinks

The conflict between Russia and the West is likely to drag on for decades, regardless of how and along exactly what lines the conflict in Ukraine ends

We hope you meet this year surrounded by warmth and cheer and may it bring you and your loved ones health and prosperity!

From November 28 to December 23, 2022, at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOS RAS), the XVII Conference of Arabists “I.M. Smilyanskaya Readings” was held