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Montenegro’s turnaround – outcomes and prospects

10:32 07.09.2020 Pyotr Iskenderov

Montenegro’s turnaround – outcomes and prospects

Montenegro is entering a new chapter of its political history. For the first time in the past 30 years the Democratic Party of Socialists, backed by incumbent President Milo Dukanovic, has suffered a defeat in the recent elections. If the winning opposition forces manage to come to agreement on the …

Gennady Gatilov: WHO, just like any organization, needs reforms

12:49 04.09.2020 Yevgeny Pedanov

Gennady Gatilov: WHO, just like any organization, needs reforms

“Flawed as it may be, the WHO plays a leading role and now is not the time to reform it. This is the opinion of Gennady Gatilov, Russia’s permanent representative at the Geneva offices of the United Nations and other international organizations. The main task now is to combat the …

Zelensky dreaming of Ukraine NOW

9:48 03.09.2020 Denis Baturin

Zelensky dreaming of Ukraine NOW

In an Independence Day address to the nation and a video message to foreign countries, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expanded on his country’s new reality. [i] Just how one would like to present Ukraine to the outside world is one thing, and what really is happening there is quite another. …

Following the unknown route: the world in searching of dollar substitute

9:23 02.09.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

Following the unknown route: the world in searching of dollar substitute

The ongoing escalation of trade wars and competition among the world’s top economies makes it imperative to consider institutionalizing several currency zones to form a sort of currency “multipolarity”.The forthcoming “currency multipolarity” became the subject of disputes in the 1990s, after the launch of a project to create a EU …

Of COVID and Covetousness

12:56 01.09.2020 Côme Carpentier de Gourdon

Of COVID and Covetousness

A crisis as grave, prolonged and far-reaching as the current COVID pandemic could not fail to have many consequences in the medical, social and political domains, as much as in the global economy where its effects are nothing less than catastrophic. The repeated contradictions, inconsistencies and backtracking by major western …

Poland: culture and history in the service of ideology

11:17 01.09.2020 Vladislav Gulevich

Poland: culture and history in the service of ideology

Polish (and other) politicians’ active meddling in the events currently taking place in Belarus inevitably brings to mind Warsaw's recent policy vis-à-vis its neighbors - Belarus and Ukraine. Why has Poland been and still is a factor of foreign influence in Ukraine? Why is Warsaw so actively engaged in what …

The future of Orthodox shrine in Gifhorn (Germany)

11:49 31.08.2020 Elena Studneva

The future of Orthodox shrine in Gifhorn (Germany)

St.Nicholas’ Church in Gilhorn, Fotograf: User: ArtMechanic, 2006. St.Nicholas’ Orthodox Church in Gifhorn (Germany) – a copy of the ‘gem’ of the Russian wooden architecture of the 18th century – has for a long time heard none of the divine liturgy chants or the ringing of the bells after the …

Nikolai Mezhevich: unrest a sign of the times

13:09 28.08.2020

Nikolai Mezhevich: unrest a sign of the times

Brussels has hosted an extraordinary summit of the EU on the situation in Belarus. Commenting on this is Nikolai Mezhevich, Director of the Belarus Research Center of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Nikolai Mezhevich: We ought to avoid if possible being too emotional. We need to …

Observers: US Sanctions on Russian Institute Working on Sputnik V Caused by Fear to Lose Leadership

11:28 27.08.2020

Observers: US Sanctions on Russian Institute Working on Sputnik V Caused by Fear to Lose Leadership

As Moscow announced the beginning of post-registration trials of anti-COVID vaccine Sputnik V on 26 August, the US added a group of Russian research institutes, including the one testing the anti-coronavirus drug, to its sanctions list. International observers have discussed the US move unveiled amid the global effort to curb …

United Nations and humanitarian projects of Russia (VIDEO)

10:52 27.08.2020

United Nations and humanitarian projects of Russia (VIDEO)

On the eve of the upcoming anniversary of the United Nations, the team of "New Generation", a popular youth program of Rossotrudnichestvo agency, told about the role of Russia in today's UN activities in a spectacular video.This year marks the 75th anniversary of the world's only universal international organization - …

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