Keywords - International Affairs

MAIN PAGE > Russia

“Let Russia Be Russia” (US debate on global security system)

12:09 05.11.2019 Dmitry Babich

“Let Russia Be Russia” (US debate on global security system)

The controversial decision by the current US administration to withdraw from the INF treaty, as well as its threat to suspend observance of the Open Skies Treaty and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), has been met with criticism and resistance even in the United States itself. However, opposition to …

Tobolsk - the heart of Siberia

10:12 04.03.2019

Tobolsk - the heart of Siberia

Tobolsk is one of the oldest cities in the Urals and Siberia, the birthplace of many famous people, including the chemist Dmitry Mendeleyev, painter Vasily Perov, composer Alexander Alyabyev and many others. It is also the place where Decembrists Ivan Annenkov, Wilhelm Kuchelbecker, Alexander Muravyov, Mikhail Fonvizin, as well as …

“Opening Russia-2019” Art Symposium Brings Indians and Russians Closer

21:34 26.02.2019

“Opening Russia-2019” Art Symposium Brings Indians and Russians Closer

While ties between India and Russia continue to scale newer heights following an informal summit last year, more and more Indians are being exposed to rich Russian culture. The spacious exhibition halls of Lalit Kala Akademi in Kota (Rajasthan) was the last venue hosting a moving art symposium “Opening Russia-2019”, …

What UK defense minister was doing in Odessa, or a taste for farce

10:51 10.01.2019 Denis Baturin

What UK defense minister was doing in Odessa, or a taste for farce

History repeats itself. This popular maxim also rings very true today. Many episodes of the Crimean War are still fresh on the memory of Russians, French and the British. Disregarding the sanctions and "annexation," Britons and French nationals keep coming to Sevastopol to take part in a historical festival, donning …

Iran: Which way to go?

16:03 05.12.2018 Vladimir Sazhin

Iran: Which way to go?

The US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), seriously hampered the chances for keeping the landmark accord in place.The accord, signed in 2015 by the P5+1 group of countries — China, Germany, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States — with Iran, requires Tehran to …

The sanctions of a split

9:48 12.11.2018 Pyotr Iskenderov

The sanctions of a split

The tough economic sanctions imposed by the United States against Iran have aggravated conflict between Washington and its close allies. The European Union, the United Kingdom, France and Germany have expressed regret over measures taken by American President Donald Trump and signaled the need to protect their companies. Simultaneously, eight …

Balkan Borders and Russia's Interests

16:27 22.08.2018 Pyotr Iskenderov

Balkan Borders and Russia's Interests

The idea of concluding an agreement between Belgrade and Pristina on the territorial delimitation between Serbs and Albanians, voiced by the president of self-proclaimed independent Kosovo, Hashim Thaci and supported by Serbian President Aleksandr Vučić, may be on the negotiating table in Brussels in early September 2018. Both presidents are …

The Alternative World

11:25 08.08.2018 Alexander Borisov

The Alternative World

We publish an excerpt from Professor Borisov’s article “The New Global System, or the World Without A Hegemon”.In 1776, the oldest of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, who was presiding at the Philadelphia Congress, which adopted the historic Declaration of Independence, pointed out as he opened …

Trade Negotiations: Geo-economics and Geopolitics

16:44 06.08.2018 Vladimir Petrovsky

Trade Negotiations: Geo-economics and Geopolitics

Trade negotiations have been increasingly used as a political tool. This is the first thing that comes to mind when one is trying to understand what is happening around the trade war unleashed by the administration of Donald Trump practically on all fronts: against the EU, China, Russia, Mexico and …

« first previous Page 6 of 6.