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The ideology of top candidates for US presidency

12:18 31.03.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

The ideology of top candidates for US presidency

According to US media reports, the incumbent President Donald Trump has secured enough Republican Party support to launch a re-election campaign [i]. Meanwhile, unexpectedly for observers, former Vice President Joe Biden has in recent weeks achieved impressive results in the race for being nominated the Democratic candidate. Although the campaign …

I feel like the Russians do smile - through their hearts

12:16 30.03.2020 Aida Soboleva

I feel like the Russians do smile - through their hearts

Professor Suzanne Ament teaches the history of Russia at the Department of History, University of Radford (Virginia, USA). Whatever she tells her students about, she tries to include a piece of music in the lecture in order to create a “sound background of the era”. Sometimes she picks up a …

Report on the situation of the Covid-19 in Argentina

17:49 28.03.2020 Juan Martin González Cabañas

Report on the situation of the Covid-19 in Argentina

To the date (March 27 at 8:00 p.m.) the total number of infected is 690 with 17 dead and 72 recovered cases.The epidemic by district (provinces) of the country:Government measuresSince March 13 a total quarantine has been established in the country by executive decree of President Alberto Fernández. These measures …

Reforms of diplomatic agencies

10:35 27.03.2020 Yuri Menshikov

Reforms of diplomatic agencies

The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) has played host to a round table the participants of which discussed a report by senior expert of the Center for Advanced Governance (CAG), RIAC expert Oleg Shakirov.In the introductory part of the report the expert stated that diplomatic agencies are very conservative and …

Russian army lends a helping hand to Italy

9:55 26.03.2020 Alexander Sheffner

Russian army lends a helping hand to Italy

For the past three days, Russian military transport planes with medical specialists and aid on board have been landing at an air base near Rome to help Italy in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak. Critics immediately started looking for some ulterior motives behind Moscow’s move, describing it as just …

Whence came the coronavirus?

10:26 25.03.2020

Whence came the coronavirus?

The coronavirus pandemic now spreading across the globe has once again raised the eternal question of what to do and who is to blame? Unable to answer the first question, many world leaders are now trying to answer the second, blaming each other for the spread of the virus. The …

COVID-19 at low ebb in China – is the “world factory” opening up?

10:05 24.03.2020 Vladimir Petrovsky

COVID-19 at low ebb in China – is the “world factory” opening up?

The coronavirus epidemic in China is showing clear signs of a decline and amid an easing of the government-enacted strict quarantine measures and travel restrictions announced late last month, the country’s economy is starting to look up. According to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in parts of the …

From killers to heroes: Polish post-war underground

11:19 23.03.2020 Vladislav Gulevich

From killers to heroes: Polish post-war underground

Government officials in Poland have for the ninth time participated at the national level in the so-called Day of “Rejected Soldiers” - members of the Polish anti-Soviet underground in 1944-1963.The “Rejected Soldiers” or “Cursed Soldiers” (Źolnierze Wyklęci) is a fairly popular phrase in Polish historical discourse. By the general understanding, …

Germany: CDU - three in one

12:10 20.03.2020 Pyotr Iskenderov

Germany: CDU - three in one

Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) will hold an extraordinary congress on April 25 to elect its new chairperson, who is almost certain to lead the party to next year’s federal elections to culminate in the election of the country’s new Chancellor in lieu of Angela Merkel, who has already …

Coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated EU’s inefficiency, says expert

0:14 19.03.2020

Coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated EU’s inefficiency, says expert

He admitted that a common coordinating agency to manage the situation with the spread of the novel coronavirus would be set up in Brussels.ROME, March 18./TASS/. A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has demonstrated European Union’s inability to pursue common policy and its incompetence, that will cost the EU the …

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