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Russia and Africa: Old Friends and New Opportunities. Results of the Second Russia-Africa Summit

16:14 28.12.2023 Galina Sidorova

Russia and Africa: Old Friends and New Opportunities. Results of the Second Russia-Africa Summit

The holding of the second Russia-Africa Summit in July 2023 in St. Petersburg amid the tough confrontation between the West and Russia was a true feat of Russian diplomacy. The preparation of such a large- scale and significant event required a lot of effort from Russian foreign policy officials. Consistently …

Apocalypse of Our Time: The Face and the Underbelly of Western Culture and Civilization

12:18 28.12.2023 Konstantin Dolgov

Apocalypse of Our Time: The Face and the Underbelly of Western Culture and Civilization

They do not understand and do not know that if such is our will, we will not be conquered ... neither by the millions of their gold, nor by the millions of their armies; that if such is our will, we cannot be compelled to do that which we do …

Evolution of the World Order and Russia’s Ideas About the Outside World

12:06 28.12.2023 Alexey Bogaturov , Olga Lebedeva

Evolution of the World Order and Russia’s Ideas About the Outside World

THE idea of the outside world and the role that Russia plays in it has undergone radical changes in Moscow’s official worldviews since 2014. The degradation of the international security situation indicates a deep crisis in the existing world order, which was formed in the spirit of the US’s unipolar …

BRICS as a Symbol of the New World

11:58 28.12.2023 Andrey Davydenko

BRICS as a Symbol of the New World

En route to the African continent, those of us on the special flight of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made forecasts about what would happen at the summit in Johannesburg, how BRICS expansion would unfold, which countries would join the Big Five, and how many. After the IL-96 aircraft of …

Robert Shiller: A 'Cataclysm' for US Dollar reserve status if confiscated Russian assets given to Ukraine

11:54 28.12.2023

Robert Shiller: A 'Cataclysm' for US Dollar reserve status if confiscated Russian assets given to Ukraine

If the United States shifts frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, it would be cataclysmic for the US Dollar's status as the global reserve currency, says Nobel Prize winning Yale professor, Robert Shiller (photo). "If America does this to Russia today… then tomorrow it can do this to anyone," he told …

View from Australia: Sleeping on Russia’s naval resurgence in the Pacific

11:53 28.12.2023

View from Australia: Sleeping on Russia’s naval resurgence in the Pacific

China’s expanding naval presence in the Pacific Ocean and the South and East China Seas has become a major focus for Australia, the US and its allies. Australia’s latest strategic defense review, for instance, was prompted, in part, by the rapid modernization of China’s military, as well as its increasing …

Despite its shortcomings, UNSC vote will tie Israel's hands

11:52 28.12.2023

Despite its shortcomings, UNSC vote will tie Israel's hands

The Security Council's watered-down Gaza vote is still important for two reasons: it highlights the US and Israel's increasing isolation at the UN, and it begins the process of narrowing Tel Aviv's options, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. The adoption of a resolution by the United …

View from Washington: The U.S. military may not be ready for Arctic competition

11:47 28.12.2023

View from Washington: The U.S. military may not be ready for Arctic competition

The U.S. Department of State announced plans to move forward with extended continental shelf claims in the Arctic (map). The US Department of State released the geographic coordinates defining the outer limits of the U.S. continental shelf in areas beyond 200 nautical miles from the coast, known as the extended …

Ukraine, Palestine, Taiwan: The course to World War and how to stop it

11:33 27.12.2023

Ukraine, Palestine, Taiwan: The course to World War and how to stop it

The similarity between Palestine and Ukraine or pre-war Europe is not symptomatic. It is organic, ‘systemic’, stresses Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, ex-advisor at the office of the Greek PM Andreas Papandreou on Arms Control and East-West relations. President Biden himself admitted as much when he linked “solidarity” with Ukraine to that with …

View from Delhi: US’ war against Houthis is smoke and mirrors

11:33 27.12.2023

View from Delhi: US’ war against Houthis is smoke and mirrors

The United States has hosted the first meeting of the new working group on terrorism in the Quad format in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 19-21. The joint statement issued after the March meeting had noted “with deep concern that terrorism has become increasingly diffuse, aided by terrorists’ adaptation to, and …

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