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China’s “two sessions”: outcome and new agenda

11:37 16.03.2021 Vladimir Petrovsky

China’s “two sessions”: outcome and new agenda

The 4thSession of the 13thNational People’s Congress, the highest organ of state power, and a session of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), an advisory body to the Chinese leadership, have come to a close in China. Traditionally, “the two sessions” take place every year, …

Bill Viola Invites Visitors to "The Journey of the Soul" at the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum

9:43 14.03.2021 Elena Rubinova

Bill Viola Invites Visitors to "The Journey of the Soul" at the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum

Bill Viola. From the «Martyrs» series (2014). Photo: Kira Perov © Bill Viola StudioBill Viola’s first-ever solo exhibition in Russia opened at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts featuring more than 20 works created between 2000 and 2014. It could not have been more timely to launch the exhibition …

Piazzolla 100 years

12:02 12.03.2021

Piazzolla 100 years

“Music is the most direct art, it enters through the ear and goes to the heart”11 March 2021 marks a century since the birth ofAstor Piazzolla, the renowned Argentine composer and bandoneon player who lived from 1921 to 1992. Piazzolla is considered not only one of the most important musicians …

Trinity for Scrutiny: Council of Europe, Human Rights instruments and Citizens

11:18 11.03.2021 Nora Wolf

Trinity for Scrutiny: Council of Europe, Human Rights instruments and Citizens

Building on the tasteful piece written recently by Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic, this article will endeavour to explore further why the TromsøConvention(Norwegian International Convention on Access to Official Documents)[1], although adopted more than a decade ago, is in fact deserving of much more credit and fuss than it appears to have …

Revisionism and conservatism in world politics: who calls the shots?

11:16 10.03.2021 Andrey Torin

Revisionism and conservatism in world politics: who calls the shots?

The Valdai International Club recently hosted a “Whose Rules? Revisionists and Protectors in World Politics” online discussion, timed for the release of the Club's new report "Institutional revisionism in international politics: a product of an upswing, a child of decline, or something else?"During the event, prominent Russian and foreign experts …

Does Russia need Council of Europe?

11:40 09.03.2021 Anna Yershova

Does Russia need Council of Europe?

Photo:AFPA quarter of a century ago Russia became a member of the Council of Europe (CE), one of the oldest intergovernmental organization. Back then, Moscow described such a move as a foreign policy victory and counted on friendly ties with all European countries. However, Russia’s relations with the Council and …

Ostarbeiters: they preferred to keep silent about them

15:27 04.03.2021 Prepared by P. Zhuravlev based on the materials of the journal "Questions of History" and A. E. Gerashchenko's monograph "Belarus during the Great Patriotic War", 2020.

Ostarbeiters: they preferred to keep silent about them

In the post-war period, the topic of the fate of people taken to Germany or subjected to forced slave labor within the Soviet Union occupied territories was hushed up in the same way as the materials about Soviet war prisoners. Neither the so-called "Thaw", nor Khrushchev's revelations of Stalinist repressions …

Russian indie production outfit MetraFilms ramps up slate

11:48 03.03.2021

Russian indie production outfit MetraFilms ramps up slate

Russian production outfit MetraFilms is showcasing multiple projects at the EFM, led by Roman Vasyanov’sThe Dorm, on which New Europe Film Sales has boarded world sales.The Dormmarks the directorial debut of Vasyanov, who is best known as David Ayer’s cinematographer onEnd Of Watch,Fury,Suicide SquadandBright.Vasyanov’s debut, which he also co-wrote, is …

My vision of 2021

11:13 03.03.2021 Kanwal Sibal

My vision of 2021

At the request of the editors of International Affairs magazine, the renowned Kanwal Sibal, India's Foreign Secretary and Ambassador to Turkey, Egypt, France and Russia, expresses his assessments of the situation in the world and forecasts of development in the coming year 2021.International relations will remain in flux in 2021. …

No Human Rights without Right to Know

11:26 02.03.2021 Audrey Beaulieu , Eugene Matos de Lara

No Human Rights without Right to Know

“People have the right to know what those in power are doing” Dunja Mijatovic Council of Europe, Commissioner for Human Rights.Access to information legislation was first seen in 1766 in Sweden, with parliamentary interest to access information held by the King. Finland in 1951, the United States in 1966, and …

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