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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 …

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, …

Iran: coronavirus, economy and politics

11:32 18.03.2020 Vladimir Sazhin

Iran: coronavirus, economy and politics

The coronavirus known under the official name of Covid-19 has been raging across Europe for nearly four months. The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a pandemic.According to data on the morning of March 16, [1] the total number of Covid-19 infections in 146 countries amounted to 162687 people, 76% …

China arrives in the Balkans, EU worried…

17:05 11.03.2020 Pyotr Iskenderov

China arrives in the Balkans, EU worried…

The Balkans as a whole and Serbia in particular are quickly turning into a scene of confrontation between key global players, with China being especially active in recent years. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has said in an interview with The Foreign Policy magazine that his country's cooperation with Beijing has …

Combating COVID-19: initial socio-economic and international lessons learned

10:53 04.03.2020 Vladimir Petrovsky

Combating COVID-19: initial socio-economic and international lessons learned

Things look like it is high time we learned the first lessons from the ongoing fight against the coronavirus epidemic in China and beyond. And not from the medical point of view alone, but also in terms of the socio-economic, political and international aspects of this unprecedented epidemic that has …

Ur-Fascism: Of Silence and EU Rush. The equation of Communism with Nazism (Second Part)

10:31 26.02.2020 Anis Bajrektarević

Ur-Fascism: Of Silence and EU Rush. The equation of Communism with Nazism (Second Part)

“He who does not wish to speak of capitalism should remain forever silent about Nazism” - Max Horkheimer famously said. It was a clear and often repeated line of this chief architect from the Frankfurt school of Philosophy – one of the most influential centres of thought in the XX …

China speaks of the right of civilizations to development, and the United States speaks of the triumph of Western values

11:17 19.02.2020 Nury Amanov

China speaks of the right of civilizations to development, and the United States speaks of the triumph of Western values

Member of the State Council, Foreign Minister Wang Yi in an exclusive interview with Reuters in Berlin, declared the right of all civilizations to development. Answering the question whether China and the USA will be able to avoid a clash of civilizations, Wang Yi said that such a concept as …

What is more disruptive with the AI: Its dark potentials or our (anti-Intellectual) Ignorance?

9:12 15.02.2020 Anis Bajrektarević

What is more disruptive with the AI: Its dark potentials or our (anti-Intellectual) Ignorance?

Throughout the most of human evolution both progress as well as its horizontal transmission was extremely slow, occasional and tedious a process. Well into the classic period of Alexander the Macedonian and his glorious Alexandrian library, the speed of our knowledge transfers – however moderate, analogue and conservative – was …

Poland: “what would have happened to Polish people had Germany won that war?”

12:11 05.02.2020 Dmitry Babich

Poland: “what would have happened to Polish people had Germany won that war?”

The leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), Yaroslav Kaczynski, who is widely known in his country as “Poland’s most influential person”, has said he expects Russia to pay reparation for wartime damage. The interview, published by the German newspaper Bild, has triggered a natural outcry in Russia. …

UN Security Council reform high on the agenda

12:18 30.01.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

UN Security Council reform high on the agenda

Russia’s acting Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made it clear once again recently that it is high time the United Nations Security Council had among permanent members representatives of India, Brazil and the African continent. Speaking at the “Raisina Dialogue” International Conference in New Delhi, Mr.Lavrov reminded the participants in the …

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