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COVID-19 pandemic: psychological and ethical consequences

15:25 12.05.2020 Andrey Torin

COVID-19 pandemic: psychological and ethical consequences

Photo: atvmedia.ru. The Russian News Agency TASS has hosted an online conference of the Bioethics Committee of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, which focused on the psychological and ethical aspects of the coronavirus pandemic. Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Chuchalin, Chairman of the Bioethics …

Return of the Wir wussten nicht. The equation of Communism with Nazism (Third Part)

9:47 09.05.2020 Anis Bajrektarević

Return of the Wir wussten nicht. The equation of Communism with Nazism (Third Part)

“He who does not wish to speak of capitalism should remain forever silent about Nazism” – I quoted West Germany’s Max Horkheimer just few months ago discussing the disastrous, cynical and absolutely unnecessary attempts towards the equation of communism with Nazism, of fascism and anti-fascism.Right than – in that text …

Korean experience of combating coronavirus

10:37 07.05.2020 Anna Yershova

Korean experience of combating coronavirus

The Republic of Korea was one of the first countries that the coronavirus spread to, and for quite some time the country held the second place in the world in the number of recorded cases of COVID-19 infection. South Korea has since slid to the 26th place, however, with the …

US trying to isolate WHO

11:45 27.04.2020 Pyotr Iskenderov

US trying to isolate WHO

The US refusal to keep allocating funds for the World Health Organization (WHO) has become yet another step towards further confrontation between President Donald Trump and international organizations. However, the geopolitical importance of such a move goes beyond health-related issues and fits well into the current format of the US-China …

Leadership for Thought: Non-Permanent members lead the Security Council through COVID-19

12:48 25.04.2020

Leadership for Thought: Non-Permanent members lead the Security Council through COVID-19

China held the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council in March this year: COVID-19 was deemed not to be a security issue. By the end of March, confirmed deaths with the virus had grown past 40,000 globally and the U.N.’s Secretary General, António Guterres, stated that the socioeconomic impacts …

The post-Corona epilogue of an overheated Sino-American relationship: We have a Winner; Will we have a Game-changer too?

11:54 23.04.2020 Anis Bajrektarević

The post-Corona epilogue of an overheated Sino-American relationship: We have a Winner; Will we have a Game-changer too?

Americans performed three very different policies on the People’s Republic: From a total negation (and the Mao-time mutual annihilation assurances), to Nixon’s sudden cohabitation. Finally, a Copernican-turn: the US spotted no real ideological differences between them and the post-Deng China. This signalled a ‘new opening’: West imagined China’s coastal areas …

Serbia and EU: no more illusions

13:47 21.04.2020 Pyotr Iskenderov

Serbia and EU: no more illusions

The current coronavirus pandemic in Europe threatens to damage the image of the EU in the eyes of residents of both EU member countries and countries seeking the EU membership. Given this, a good example has been demonstrated by the Serbian leadership, which initially pronounced integration with the EU as …

How COVID-19 Will Reshape the World

11:38 16.04.2020 Jacob Shapiro

How COVID-19 Will Reshape the World

The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on global markets and shocking the global economy. In addition to the disease itself and its attendant supply chain disruptions, uncertainty is exacerbating the havoc and the shock. While there are still many unknowns related to both COVID-19 and its attendant political consequences, one …

A. Krutskikh: “bio-pandemic” will be followed by “cyber-pandemic”

11:17 15.04.2020 Yevgeny Pedanov

A. Krutskikh: “bio-pandemic” will be followed by “cyber-pandemic”

While previous epidemics snuffed out not thousands, but hundreds of thousands of lives, the system of digital communication we have today ensures a quick exchange of information, which helps avoid the many risks associated with the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic will spur the digitalization process, and ensuring information security will …

Russians never abandon their heroes, even when they are monuments

12:27 10.04.2020

Russians never abandon their heroes, even when they are monuments

What should municipal authorities be doing at the height of a global pandemic? Obviously, to provide much-needed quarantine measures, make sure that essential goods, including medicines, are readily available and to monitor the work done by local health institutions. This is not the case with Prague district 6 mayor Ondrej …

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