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Kazakhstan’s Geopolitical Challenge: Balancing Competing Interests

... Kazakhstan 2030” relayed the country’s first-ever long-term goals, and represented Kazakhstan’s intentions of becoming an industrialized country. Artem Dankov: New Kazakhstan vs. Divided Kazakhstan: Policies Critical for Kasym-Jomart Tokayev While Russia continues to be one of Kazakhstan’s greatest partners, China’s fast growing economy has started to bring the two countries closer together, forming an important new partnership that both states are eager to explore and develop. In the early ...

04.06.2024

On a New Mechanism for the Confiscation of Russian Sovereign Assets: Consensus Between the US Administration and Congress

New legal mechanisms on both sides cement the economic barriers that, most likely, will last for years and decades In the United States, both houses of Congress approved the bill H.R. 8038 , titled “21 st Century Peace through Strength Act”. In Russia, the bill received resonance in connection with the legal mechanism for the confiscation of Russia’s sovereign assets. Previously, there were no such mechanisms in the arsenal of US sanctions policy towards Russia. What will the new law look ...

03.06.2024

‘Being in Order’ Also Means Being in the World Order

Fyodor Lukyanov: Understanding the Chinese view is the key to being able to look differently at one’s place in the world and what kind of the world is preferable to us Russia and China have a truly unique role in the international arena, which makes their relations a huge and very complex topic. Neither country accepts subordination to anyone or to each other. China is unable to be a junior partner, and the same goes ...

29.05.2024

How SCO Contributes to Security in Eurasia

... unwillingness to develop in the logic of a unipolar world order. The year 2022 might well have been a new milestone in the history of this Organization. Whereas previously its goals and objectives, albeit specific, were difficult to verify in practice, after Russia launched its special operation in Ukraine—as a driver of change and the subsequent nullification of relations between Russia and the West—the SCO claimed the status of a regional security project comparable in importance to Western ones but ...

27.05.2024

Roundtable Discussion “Peacekeeping in a Multipolar World”

On May 20, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a roundtable discussion “Peacekeeping in a Multipolar World On May 20, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a roundtable discussion “Peacekeeping in a Multipolar World....

24.05.2024

NATO’s Strategic Failure in Ukraine

Historians will most likely conclude the ambitious U.S.-led attempt to expand a militarized NATO on the border with Russia was an ill-conceived strategic failure resulting in lives lost and misplaced, and the catapult vital to compel a significant bi-polar alliance between BRICS to counter the once dominant NATO Alliance NATO seems to be in disarray. NATO rested ...

24.05.2024

Decades of Wars?

... years. Many structural factors indicate a high probability of qualitative escalation in military conflicts. This would bring the world to the brink of total catastrophe. Furthermore, it would bring innumerable misfortunes to humanity in general and to Russia in particular. My intention is not to scare those who are already nervous and not yet ready to accept the new reality, especially given the hysteria my previous series of relatively “vegetarian” articles caused. However, you cannot hide an ...

24.05.2024

RIC Trilateral Cooperation Needs Enhancement

... Undoubtedly, their regional, continental and global roles will continue to evolve. Beijing-New Delhi relations have had, and will continue to have, a profound impact on the Eurasian and worldwide international order. Andrey Kortunov: India-US Entente: A Russian Perspective Nothing in their history should prevent these two Eurasian giants from working together for their own benefit and the good the continent. China and India have never tried to conquer each other. For many centuries they were engaged ...

22.05.2024
 

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    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
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    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
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