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Defense and military technology ties between Russia and Iran: yesterday, today and tomorrow

10:51 15.04.2019 Vladimir Sazhin

Defense and military technology ties between Russia and Iran: yesterday, today and tomorrow

Not long ago Russia and Iran marked an important jubilee - 500 years to the establishment of Russian-Iranian (Persian) relations.[1] Throughout the centuries these relations have seen different periods: from wars to good neighborly relations. However, defense cooperation has always been a major aspect of bilateral ties that affects policy-making …

Tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina

10:14 12.04.2019 Slavisha Batko Milacic

Tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina

It has long been known that Bosnia and Herzegovina is a dysfunctional state, which survives only because it is a protectorate of the West. That is why discomfort has always been present since the end of the civil war in 1995. However, lately the tensions between the constituent nations in …

New plans for "star wars" or bluff to wear out foes?

11:08 11.04.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

New plans for "star wars" or bluff to wear out foes?

On March 27, the Indian leadership announced a successful destruction by a missile launched from the ground of a space satellite positioned at an altitude of about 300 km. According to Western media reports, thus the number of countries that have successfully tested anti-satellite weapons technology has increased to four …

Turkey can no longer count on NATO alone

13:32 10.04.2019 Yevgeny Pedanov

Turkey can no longer count on NATO alone

Turkey’s planned purchase of the S-400 missile defense system from Russia threatens NATO security and is putting Ankara at risk of losing its status of “a critical partner in the most successful military alliance in history,” US Vice President Mike Pence has warned. Experts from the Turkish Foundation for Political, …

China: via Portugal into Africa and Latin America

13:08 09.04.2019 Vladislav Gulevich

China: via Portugal into Africa and Latin America

Portugal is a major geographical link in the European leg of China’s New Silk Road project (NSR). A visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Lisbon on December 4-5, 2018 produced seventeen cooperation agreements thereby reaffirming the two parties' readiness to expand economic partnership (1).China is Portugal’s top trading partner …

140th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

12:18 09.04.2019

140th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

173 countries April 6-1011 associations Qatar, Doha The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) – the oldest (est. 1889) and one of the most authoritative and influential global parliamentary organizations. The IPU has permanent observer status at the United Nations Organization.The Assembly is the supreme body of the IPU and is convened twice …

Brexit: any light at the end of the tunnel?

12:09 08.04.2019 Pyotr Iskenderov

Brexit: any light at the end of the tunnel?

Adding a new twist to the divisive issue of the timetable and terms of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, UK Prime Minister Theresa May has asked the EU to postpone Brexit until June 30, 2019, the BBC reported.In a letter to the EU leadership, May said that the proposed …

Imperialism of Lullaby: Noah, Peter Pan and the Sleeping Beauty (I Part)

13:22 05.04.2019 Anis Bajrektarević

Imperialism of Lullaby: Noah, Peter Pan and the Sleeping Beauty (I Part)

Economic downturn; recession of plans and initiatives; systematically ignored calls for a fiscal and monetary justice for all; €-crisis; Brexit and irredentism in the UK, Spain, Belgium, France, Denmark and Italy; lasting instability in the Euro-Med theatre (debt crisis of the Europe’s south – countries scrutinized and ridiculed under the …

China-Europe: “balanced partnership” or “systemic rival”?

12:44 04.04.2019 Vladimir Petrovsky

China-Europe: “balanced partnership” or “systemic rival”?

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent state visits to Italy, Monaco and France set off a flurry of comments by European media, which even called Mr. Xi “Marko Polo in reverse,” who arrived in Europe to open the world to China and Chinese goods. [1]The outcome of the Chinese leader’s visit …

Rumors about the “death” of Russian-Turkish alliance in Syria greatly exaggerated

10:21 03.04.2019 Andrey Isayev

Rumors about the “death” of Russian-Turkish alliance in Syria greatly exaggerated

The breakthrough in trade and other economic relations between Russia and Turkey has quite naturally spread to the realm of politics, best reflected in the two countries’ coordinated actions in Syria. This is all the more surprising, since only recently military-technical cooperation between Moscow and Ankara was absolutely unthinkable. Wary …

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