The current discussion surrounding the potential occupation of Gaza raises concerns about a similarly protracted engagement, with significant repercussions for both regional and global stability
Introduction
The United States, under President Donald Trump, has consistently followed ...
The 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly has recently completed the general debate, where President of Russia Vladimir Putin tasked me to represent the Russian Federation
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article for Russia in Global Affairs magazine, October ...
... like to wish everyone who have a sense of humour a happy New Year Old Style, which we celebrated yesterday and which certainly added a few positive notes to everyday routine, which is a fact of life and which we will be mostly talking about today.
The fundamental assessments of the international situation in the past few years, our actions, policy and goals on the international stage have been presented in detail during President Vladimir Putin’s annual news conference on December 19, 2024. Before ...
Despite the crisis of multilateral diplomacy, preserving its supporting structures seems necessary
After the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s, new and extremely broad opportunities for multilateral diplomacy opened up. It could be understood as the joint actions of leading powers, regional centres of power and small countries in the field of resolving security issues and responding to common challenges. UN, as the only universal ...
Great powers claim to be great because they cannot afford the luxury of pure situational opportunism, typical for many other international actors
The sudden fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, as far as one can judge, came as a complete surprise for all external actors, Moscow including. Of course, many Russian area studies experts for ...
On November 25, 2024, members of the UN Security Council held an informal Arria-formula meeting on the topic “The Humanitarian Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures”
On November 25, 2024, members of the UN Security Council held an informal Arria-formula meeting on the topic “The ...
Despite the importance and urgency of the issues, the principles formulated in the GDC are biased and unbalanced
At the Summit of the Future held in New York on September 22–23, 2024, UN Member States adopted the GDC as one of the annexes to Pact for the Future. The GDC addresses Internet governance, bridging the digital divide, international rules ...
2024 may become a historical turning point for the BRICS group
Recently the BRICS group has become the flavor of the political season. The ongoing hype around BRICS arguably started In August of 2023, when at its 15th summit in South Africa’s Johannesburg the group decided to go ahead with doubling the number of its members. The room for further enlargement still remains quite spacious: today we can see ...
The international community has to continue its search not for an elusive general consensus on the desirable world order, but rather for attainable compromises on specific matters
Large-scale high-level events at the United Nations (UN) seldom generate immediate practical ...
... trade
, these ties seemingly have a significant potential to be filled with economic, humanitarian or scientific-technological content as well as be fruitful across the political domain. The independence in foreign policies of Russia and Algeria, both countries’ own approaches to the most important problems on the international agenda and a readiness to actively participate in their solution make it extremely important to drive dialogue between the two nations: not only at the political but also at ...