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Turkey can no longer count on NATO alone

13:32 10.04.2019 Yevgeny Pedanov

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, …

China and US keep a close eye on Greenland

10:48 18.02.2019 Vladislav Gulevich

China and US keep a close eye on Greenland

Greenland is mulling independence. While enjoying wide autonomy within the Kingdom of Denmark with its own parliament since 2009,. Greenland still faces two serious economic problems standing on its way to full-fledged sovereignty, namely the need to make itself less dependent on financial assistance from Copenhagen ($620 million), and reduce …

EU sets in motion special mechanism against US sanctions

11:38 05.02.2019 Vladimir Sazhin

EU sets in motion special mechanism against US sanctions

According to French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, the EU’s updated Blocking Statute mechanism of maintaining financial, economic and trade relations with Iran, aimed at mitigating the impact of Washington’s sanctions on EU companies doing business with Tehran, will take effect within the next few days.However, the French minister stood …

40 Years of US-China Relations

0:57 24.01.2019 Vladimir Petrovsky

40 Years of US-China Relations

Forty years after the United States and China established diplomatic relations in January 1979 the anniversary is a good reason to reflect on the past and future of their relationship.The 40th anniversary is best remembered in Beijing. In an interview devoted to the memorable date, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi …

John Bolton's Hawkish Flight

12:04 18.01.2019 Vladimir Sazhin

John Bolton's Hawkish Flight

The American edition of The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing former and currently serving politicians who wished not to be named, reported a few days ago that the US National Security Council (NSC), led by presidential adviser John Bolton, turned to the Pentagon last autumn with a request to devise …

Will the world have to choose between US and China?

12:20 17.01.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

Will the world have to choose between US and China?

As the US-China trade war heats up, more and more experts tend to believe that the world may be heading into a breakup again, just like it did during the years of the Cold War. This time - into two conflicting trade and economic camps, pro-US and pro-China, with almost …

Europe-US: results of 2018 and prospects for 2019

11:37 14.01.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

Europe-US: results of 2018 and prospects for 2019

Speaking at a December 4 news conference in Brussels following a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said that the rule-based multilateral world order that for many decades has served the collective interests of the Western nations is no longer working. He backed up …

Libya: Blind alleys of political settlement

11:55 26.12.2018 Viktor Goncharov

Libya: Blind alleys of political settlement

An international conference on Libya, mediated by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte that was recently held in Palermo, Sicily, was looking for ways to reconcile the rival centers of power and generally stabilize the situation in the long-troubled North African nation. One of these main power centers is the Government …

Dismantling Yalta system, or Ukraine as an instrument of destroying the world order

10:59 10.12.2018 Denis Baturin

Dismantling Yalta system, or Ukraine as an instrument of destroying the world order

Ukraine’s recent provocation in the Black Sea has become another pretext for unraveling the Yalta system of international institutions and legal accords, which has been actively and openly done since 2014. Before that, it was Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, a bungled attempt to do the same in Syria, as well as …

External Factor in Syrian Conflict

14:10 06.12.2018 Yevgeny Pedanov

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, …

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