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Biden’s honeymoon with Democrats is expiring

16:42 03.04.2021 Vladimir Mikheev

Biden’s honeymoon with Democrats is expiring

One cannot shake off the nagging suspicion that no sober-minded pragmatist or a died-in-the-wool misanthropist in the United States really expected the true blue America’s honeymoon with Joe Biden to last long enough.Yet, when the first rupture of the credit line of trust offered to the US President, the embodiment …

The Treaty that damaged the country's security

13:09 01.04.2021

The Treaty that damaged the country's security

In June 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Soviet Union's decision to refuse medium-range missiles "at least controversial." Let's try to figure out why.The Treaty on liquidation of Medium-range and Shorter-range Missiles in Europe was signed during Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to Washington on December 7-10, 1987. 846 American and …

Nord Stream: who stands to gain? Why Germany refuses to bend under sanctions pressure

15:18 31.03.2021

Nord Stream: who stands to gain? Why Germany refuses to bend under sanctions pressure

The chances of the sanctions war around Nord Stream 2 to rage on after the construction of the pipeline is finally over look high. That being said, we have to admit, with regret or with joy, that it will be completed, and for the following reasons.Germany, like any other European …

Vaccination: Market Commodity or Public Good?

11:55 19.03.2021 Juan Martin González Cabañas

Vaccination: Market Commodity or Public Good?

On March 17, the Valdai Club and the Argentine Council on Foreign Relations (CARI) held a joint discussion, titled“Vaccine as a Global Public Good. Multilateralism, Cooperation and Regional Integration”. The experts discussed the problems of ensuring equal access to vaccines and international cooperation in the field of vaccination.José Octavio Bordón, …

YALTA 1945: A. A. Gromyko concerning reparations in favor of the USSR

11:35 18.03.2021

YALTA 1945: A. A. Gromyko concerning reparations in favor of the USSR

"Three historical personalities - Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill - together they had then colossal power and enormous influence. How much more could have been solved if they had then reached the necessary consent degree on all matters, and if justice had completely triumphed!", - A. A. Gromyko, the Yalta Conference …

Trinity for Scrutiny: Council of Europe, Human Rights instruments and Citizens

11:18 11.03.2021 Nora Wolf

Trinity for Scrutiny: Council of Europe, Human Rights instruments and Citizens

Building on the tasteful piece written recently by Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic, this article will endeavour to explore further why the TromsøConvention(Norwegian International Convention on Access to Official Documents)[1], although adopted more than a decade ago, is in fact deserving of much more credit and fuss than it appears to have …

Revisionism and conservatism in world politics: who calls the shots?

11:16 10.03.2021 Andrey Torin

Revisionism and conservatism in world politics: who calls the shots?

The Valdai International Club recently hosted a “Whose Rules? Revisionists and Protectors in World Politics” online discussion, timed for the release of the Club's new report "Institutional revisionism in international politics: a product of an upswing, a child of decline, or something else?"During the event, prominent Russian and foreign experts …

Ostarbeiters: they preferred to keep silent about them

15:27 04.03.2021 Prepared by P. Zhuravlev based on the materials of the journal "Questions of History" and A. E. Gerashchenko's monograph "Belarus during the Great Patriotic War", 2020.

Ostarbeiters: they preferred to keep silent about them

In the post-war period, the topic of the fate of people taken to Germany or subjected to forced slave labor within the Soviet Union occupied territories was hushed up in the same way as the materials about Soviet war prisoners. Neither the so-called "Thaw", nor Khrushchev's revelations of Stalinist repressions …

No Human Rights without Right to Know

11:26 02.03.2021 Audrey Beaulieu , Eugene Matos de Lara

No Human Rights without Right to Know

“People have the right to know what those in power are doing” Dunja Mijatovic Council of Europe, Commissioner for Human Rights.Access to information legislation was first seen in 1766 in Sweden, with parliamentary interest to access information held by the King. Finland in 1951, the United States in 1966, and …

Caspian: Status, Challenges, Prospects

12:39 01.03.2021

Caspian: Status, Challenges, Prospects

An Analysis into the Legal Classification, Security and Environmental Concerns, Geopolitics and Energy Flow Impact of the Caspian PlateauHow has the world’s largest inland body of (salty) water escaped the economic and political notice for so long? And it is for a resource-rich area of a unique locality that connects …

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