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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 …

Bleak See on the Black Sea

15:09 07.12.2018 Anis Bajrektarević

Bleak See on the Black Sea

Following the latest events in and around the Black Sea, two old questions are reappearing. Both are inviting us for a repeated elaboration:If a Monroe doctrine (about the hemispheric security exclusivity) is recognised at one corner of the globe, do we have a moral right or legal ground to negate …

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, …

Iran: Which way to go?

16:03 05.12.2018 Vladimir Sazhin

Iran: Which way to go?

The US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), seriously hampered the chances for keeping the landmark accord in place.The accord, signed in 2015 by the P5+1 group of countries — China, Germany, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States — with Iran, requires Tehran to …

Leave not stay? EU approves UK exit

12:25 04.12.2018 Andrey Kadomtsev

Leave not stay? EU approves UK exit

On November 25, leaders of the EU member states approved an agreement on the withdrawal of Great Britain from the Union. The last objections, voiced by Spain, were lifted after Madrid received "assurances from the British government concerning Gibraltar." Now the British Prime Minister Theresa May will have to secure …

Kosovo as Pandora`s box

12:44 03.12.2018 Slavisha Batko Milacic

Kosovo as Pandora`s box

The ethnic demarcation that is promoted by Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic, between Serbs and Albanians is just another name for the creation of Greater Albania. Vucic statements and spinnings of the necessity for the “demarcation” between Serbia and Kosovo caused shock among Serbs. Most of his political life, Vucic advocated …

Press release

19:34 30.11.2018

Press release

“From the first minutes you won’t understand that artists are deafblind people. Here they are main characters and the actors only help them to tell their stories, about how they live in a world of constant silence and darkness. ”First channel "The play «Touchable» is the dreams of those who …

Tehran Conference 75 Year On: How It All Happened

12:21 30.11.2018 Vladimir Sazhin

Tehran Conference 75 Year On: How It All Happened

Seventy-five years ago, on November 28 - December 1, 1943, the leaders of the Soviet Union, the United States and Great Britain – the three great Allied powers waging a bloody battle against fascism - were meeting in the Iranian capital Tehran. The Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka) was the first …

“Non/Fictio№” Celebrates its 20th Anniversary in “Italian Style”

12:29 29.11.2018 Elena Rubinova

“Non/Fictio№” Celebrates its 20th Anniversary in “Italian Style”

“Non/Fictio№”, officially calledthe International Book Fair for High-Quality Fiction and Non-Fiction, which marks its 20th anniversary, kicked off in Moscow’s Central House of Artists. Five-day book marathon is held from 28 November through 2 December 2018 under the patronage of the Federal Agency for Publishing and Mass Communications. Traditionally the …

A new world system, or a world without a hegemon

12:55 28.11.2018 Alexander Borisov

A new world system, or a world without a hegemon

THE STATE of the world and, frequently, the course of history depended on the foundation on which peace on Earth was based - either on international balance or on omnipotence of another hegemon. Today, the Atlantic circles of different levels have adopted another propagandist mantra: international relations would be disrupted …

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