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Investment flows to Europe down by half

9:25 17.06.2019

Investment flows to Europe down by half

Despite global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows sliding for the past three years, the authors of an annual United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) World Investment Report, presented in Moscow by the acting director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION), …

Nuclear weapons are vulnerable to cyber threats

10:11 11.06.2019

Nuclear weapons are vulnerable to cyber threats

According to a new report from the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Cyber Nuclear Weapons Study Group, US nuclear weapons can’t be effectively protected against cyberattacks with technical means alone. "Any system containing a digital component, including nuclear weapons, is vulnerable to cyber threats," Page Stoutland, NTI’s vice president for scientific …

Turkey can no longer count on NATO alone

13:32 10.04.2019

Turkey can no longer count on NATO alone

Turkey’s planned purchase of the S-400 missile defense system from Russia threatens NATO security and is putting Ankara at risk of losing its status of “a critical partner in the most successful military alliance in history,” US Vice President Mike Pence has warned. Experts from the Turkish Foundation for Political, …

Britain to lose more from Brexit than EU

12:07 06.03.2019

Britain to lose more from Brexit than EU

Photo: es.wikipedia.orgNearly three years have passed since the Brexit referendum. As the UK’s exit from the EU scheduled for March 29 draws nearer, there have been proposed four scenarios as to what course further developments could follow: ratification of the agreement and an organized withdrawal, exit without agreement, postponement of …

External Factor in Syrian Conflict

14:10 06.12.2018

External Factor in Syrian Conflict

The Syrian conflict was high on the agenda of a conference on the problems of the Middle East and Africa, which was recently held at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow. The participants pointed to the external aspect as the main factor in the conflict, …

US Sanction Ultimatum

11:44 13.08.2018

US Sanction Ultimatum

The United States has decided to impose new sanctions against Russia. The first package of sanction measures of the US State Department will come into force on August 22. Vladimir Vasiliev, chief researcher at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, believes that the …

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