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A Dangerous Interregnum

11:20 07.12.2020 Zlatko Hadžidedić , Adnan Idrizbegović

A Dangerous Interregnum

Less than two months are left for the transition of government in the United States of America. Not a long period, but sufficient to trigger processes that the next American administration would not be able to reverse. There are no reasons to doubt that President Trump, who still refuses to …

Vaccine vs geopolitics? Political ambitions may slow down battle against global pandemic

11:55 04.12.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

Vaccine vs geopolitics? Political ambitions may slow down battle against global pandemic

Foreign pharmaceutical companies have been vying with one another in being the first to announce the launch of an anti-coronavirus vaccine and having it registered by healthcare authorities. Meanwhile, the Russian vaccine “Sputnik V”, which was the first to be presented to the world, has demonstrated 95 percent efficiency in …

Psyops in an Ever-changing World: The Age of Influencers

11:14 03.12.2020 Emanuel Pietrobon, University of Turin (Italy)

Psyops in an Ever-changing World: The Age of Influencers

Many political scientists, strategists and experts of various kind argue that fake news are the greatest and most lethal feature of today’s hybrid warfares. They are right, partly. Social media and social networks are proving themselves incredibly destabilisation-powered, from the way they can be used to coordinate civil unrests and …

About Karabakh conflict

11:42 02.12.2020 Alexander Ananyev

About Karabakh conflict

The fast pace of a settlement process in Nagorno-Karabakh and the arrival of Russian peace-keepers in the conflict zone took those Russian and foreign ”experts” that cashed in on the one-sided presentation of Russia’s policy, by surprise. Their interpretations of events while they were hot smack of confusion and mutually …

Olympiad on Russian as a foreign language

12:28 01.12.2020

Olympiad on Russian as a foreign language

“TheSecond International online Olympiadon Russia as a foreign language organised bySaint Petersburg State Universityand theMinistry of Education of Russian Federationhas set a new record for the number of participants. This year the Olympiad tasks have been performed by 9,500 people from 150 countries. As a comparison, last year only saw …

Stability of disagreements: Biden’s election may usher in a period of volatility in US-India relations

11:26 01.12.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

Stability of disagreements: Biden’s election may usher in a period of volatility in US-India relations

Fifteen countries across the Asia-Pacific region recently inked an agreement on the Comprehensive Regional Economic Partnership (RCEP), which is seen as the largest regional free trade accord signed to date. The signatories are Australia, China, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan and the ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian …

Russia and the Arctic

0:53 30.11.2020 Yuri Menshikov

Russia and the Arctic

Russia Today press center has hosted an online briefing of Nikolai Korchunov, a special envoy of the Russian Foreign Ministry and a senior official on the Arctic Council from the Russian Federation. The briefing focused on the outcome of an online meeting of Arctic Council seniors, which took place in …

Third International Media Forum: Freedom of Journalism in the Context of Human Rights, New Technologies and International Information Security

10:15 25.11.2020

Third International Media Forum: Freedom of Journalism in the Context of Human Rights, New Technologies and International Information Security

On November 24-26, Nizhny Novgorod plays host to the Third International Media Forum 2020: Freedom of Journalism in the Context of Human Rights, New Technologies and International Information Security. The event traditionally brings together leading Russian and foreign media experts, well-known journalists, politicians and political analysts. This year, discussions will …

Video message by Sergey Lavrov to participants at the International Geneva Conference on Afghanistan

14:15 24.11.2020

Video message by Sergey Lavrov to participants at the International Geneva Conference on Afghanistan

Ladies and gentlemen,The year 2020 has become for us a year of hope for a possible end of the armed conflict in Afghanistan in the near future and for establishing a lasting and durable peace. Russia welcomed the last February agreement between the Taliban movement and the United States, that …

Iranian nuclear problem again – the storm clouds are gathering

13:24 24.11.2020 Vladimir Sazhin

Iranian nuclear problem again – the storm clouds are gathering

The nuclear problem of Iran is once again becoming the focus of global media attention, and there are several reasons for this.First, US President-elect Joe Biden (although no official results of the November 3 vote have been announced yet), who generally rejects the foreign policy of the current President Donald …

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