Kiev is the most vulnerable party in any development of the situation—both radical and basic. The question is the price for all participants. The price for Ukraine will be the highest
Russia and the West are going through another stage of military-political escalation. Its immediate indicator was Ukraine’s use of American and British missile systems to strike Russian territory, the emergence of Moscow’s new nuclear doctrine, the ...
... possible foundations of international cooperation in Greater Eurasia.
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We see that in the case of potential international cooperation in Greater Eurasia, none of the political factors mentioned in the previous section function. For those states that Russia calls upon to create some new international reality, there is no unifying external threat. Their political elites are not in the position of a besieged fortress, as was the case with the European colonial powers or the pided Germany in the second ...
Russia’s leading experts on the new Russia’s nuclear doctrine
On November 19, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin
signed
Executive Order Approving the Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence. The new ...
... in one of his early works, quite rightly points out that the basis of a relatively stable order is the mutual recognition of legitimacy by its participants. By recognising each other’s legitimacy, the largest European powers – Austria, Britain, Russia, Prussia and royal France – directly or indirectly acted together against the internal enemy, i.e., a potential revolution against their order. Thus, the external enemy of the countries of the Vienna order was revolution as such: an attempt by ...
... of international relations is the struggle of democracies against autocracies. This does not mean ideological neutrality. The idea of the ‘free world’ and criticism of ‘communism’ (in which they include China, Cuba, Venezuela, and by inertia, Russia) plays an important role in the thinking of many Republicans. But the defining factor is something else – intolerance of those who for various reasons do not accept American supremacy.
Trump’s choice for national security adviser, Michael Waltz,...
Will Russia continue its “business as usual” aimed at maintaining the existing status-quo or will it be forced to review and to revise its positions towards Israel, Palestinians, Iran and its main partners in the Arab world?
The spectacular comeback ...
How the Soviet leadership pursued foreign policy ob- jectives in relation to Turkey and the resulting legacy from these pursuits in today’s terms
The history of relations between Russia and Turkey can be characterized as complex. Attempts by the Ottomans to capture Zaporozhye and Left Bank Ukraine, along with raids launched by the Crimean Tatars, were replaced by the Russian state’s struggle with the Ottoman Empire for access ...
... imbalance in mutual trade
In December 2024, an interim trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Mongolia is expected to be signed, with the draft finalized in record time. This milestone reflects the growing business ties between Russia and Mongolia and the dialogue between their government agencies, as well as broader trends of Eurasian integration and Russia’s pivot to the East. This interim agreement with a limited set of trade preferences enables Mongolia and Russia to comfortably ...
On November 11, 2024 Russian Council for International Affairs (RIAC) in cooperation with Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) hold the X International Conference “Current Status and Prospects of Migration to Russia from Distant ...
The Russian and the Indian approaches to security matters compliment each other and should generate the synergy needed to address the very complicated Asia security agenda
The idea of a collective security system in Asia has become a subject of discussions ...
