PICREADI represents the third issue of the Public Diplomacy Journal under the brand of the Meeting Russia program.

The topic of the issue is "Education in Russia":

Russian Houses & Their Friends, 
University of Tyumen: Example of International Training and Education at Universities in Russian Regions, 
Great…

Author - Ulrike Reisner, political scientist, Vienna, Austria. Original publication on picreadi.com

With funds from the European Peace Facility, the European Union now plans to procure munition for Ukraine. In doing so, the EU is once again contradicting itself as a "peace project". If it still wants to take itself seriously, it would be…

The referendums organised at the request of the two people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (independent since 2014 and recognised by Russia on 21 February 2022) but also in the territories of Zaporizhia and Kherson, have a historical and geopolitical significance on several levels, as it is not only a question of the process of Russian…

Pugwash, together with several Finnish NGOs (Peace Union of Finland, ICAN Finland, Physicians for Social Responsibility and Technology for Life Finland) have set up a Nuclear Weapons Monitoring Group (Finland) whose task is to provide timely analysis on issues relating to nuclear weapons and NATO.


Source: Reuters

When Finland joins the North…

As the financial and technological sphere rapidly develops, it will increasingly impact the entire globe, including global governance structures, and the traditional system of international law. Particularly pressing is in the domain of crypto-assets, which contain huge resources and is simultaneously developing with a disregard for state borders…

Dr. Salam Al Rabadi
Unfortunately, by tracking the pattern of strategies of many countries based on exaggerated interest in human rights, women's and democracy issues in Iran (such as the case of the death of the Iranian girl Mahsa Amini), it is no longer possible to ignore the extent of the political, security and cultural exploitation that is…

Author - Ulrike Reisner, political scientist, Vienna, Austria. Original publication on picreadi.com

The economic outlook for Europe's economy is devastating. Numerous companies are under massive pressure to withdraw from Russia. American elite universities like Yale and Stanford are at the forefront. Under the pretext of "science", they…

A geopolitical essay

by Dr. Katja Banik


*Immanuel Kant: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
“Nimmersatt, where the end of the German Empire once lay”
In the neighborhood with Russia
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Educational online program Hablemos con Rusia for young leaders from Latin America receives applications from 19 January, 2023.

Hablemos con Rusia will take place on 15-16 March, 2023.

Creative Diplomacy invites journalists, young experts in international relations, scholars of Russia, representatives of NGOs to…

The Wire published a piece by Anita Inder Singh, a Founding Professor of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution in New Delhi, declaring that “India Is Wrong: Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine Has Global, Not Just European Ramifications”. With the fullest of respect for this esteemed expert’s right to express her views about the Ukrainian…

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky proposed a Peace Formula in 10 points to end the conflict. It was rejected by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, but Russian President Vladimir Putin was more evasive, requiring Kiev to “take into account the new territorial realities”.

Source: Reuters   
Presidents Zelensky and Putin…

Since the election of former President Donald Trump in 2016, there has been a relentless obsession by the U.S. government and federal agencies to remove and eliminate both Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin from the world’s political landscape.

Source: Sputnik 
If the orchestrated failure to obfuscate Trump’s win in 2016 as a…