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Donbass: the truce that never was

10:23 30.10.2014 Eliseo Bertolasi

Donbass: the truce that never was

I was recently in the People's Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk. The situation there is really difficult. It's a disgrace that a civil war of such magnitude has been almost completely ignored by the Western media. Moving from one city to another is problematic. There are numerous police checkpoints, and …

Excerpts from the program "Time and Us" with the participation of the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko

22:20 25.10.2014

Excerpts from the program "Time and Us" with the participation of the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko

The program was broadcast on the channel of the Federation Council "TOGETHER-RF" on Friday, October 17th. Chairman of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko. 1. Today the conditions do not exist for any one state or group of states to qualify for world hegemony. Let's look at what great strides the …

Presidential Elections in Brazil: what kind of domestic and international scenarios are opening on the eve of the next 26th October’s second round?

15:35 21.10.2014 Simona Bottoni

Presidential Elections in Brazil: what kind of domestic and international scenarios are opening on the eve of the next 26th October’s second round?

Results confirm that the last year’s presidential elections on October 5th were the most controversial in the current democratic Brazil: the PT candidate Dilma Rousseff, with her 41,5% of votes, has failed to avoid a second ballot, while the moderate Aécio Neves (PSDB) gained the 33,6%, far behind in the …

Russia and Asian Countries: an Imperative of Cooperation

0:26 07.10.2014 Andrey Davydenko

Russia and Asian Countries: an Imperative of Cooperation

Photo: Federation Council Media Service A delegation of Russian senators led by Federation Council chairwoman Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko visited Laos and China on September 19-23 in a tour launched in the framework of Moscow's intensifying multifaceted dialog with Asian partners. Asia Pacific naturally ranks high on the list of Russian …

The Epoch's New Challenges. Time to Formulate Responses

11:59 28.08.2014 Veniamin Popov

The Epoch's New Challenges. Time to Formulate Responses

Contours of the multipolar world and its transformed governance structures driven by collective decision-making and sustained international agreements, of a world where all parties involved enjoy equal rights and the interests of every side are taken into account, have been growing visible in the wake of two decades of unipolarity …

Letters to the Editorial Board

22:37 27.07.2014 Elena Shashkina

Letters to the Editorial Board

Dear readers! We are always attentive to your emails.We already know many of you are our regular readers and colleagues.Your suggestions for new topics, responses to articles and other suggestions are welcomed on journal@interaffairs.ru.Your opinion is important for us! Thank you! An editor Elena Shashkina is in correspondence with the …

The rights of indigenous peoples in the Arctic *

22:04 09.07.2014 Alessandra Caruso

The rights of indigenous peoples in the Arctic *

The international community’s attention in the Arctic is directed to energy resources and legal disputes, excluding a key factor of these issues: the human dimension of the region. In the Arctic Circle, the area in which the average temperature of the warmest month (July) does not exceed 10 degrees Celsius, …

NATO's 15 Years in Kosovo. Part 4

16:31 07.07.2014 Konstantin Kachalin

NATO's 15 Years in Kosovo. Part 4

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Gangster Paradise Following the advent of NATO forces (KFOR) to Kosovo in the summer of 1999, the province evolved into a gangster paradise, a territory used by the European mafia as a base for organized crime and a gigantic drug-trafficking hub. Most …

Radicalization is the Future of Ukraine

14:36 02.07.2014 Vladislav Gulevich

Radicalization is the Future of Ukraine

The events in Ukraine are not covered properly by Western media.First and foremost, Western media avoid mentioning the fact that many members of Ukrainian ultranationalist organizations now have positions in the official power system, as well as in the army and police. This fusion of Ukrainian nationalists, the military, and …

“Non-Citizens”. Russian Ethnics Minorities in the Baltic Sea Region

14:09 30.06.2014 Dario Citati

“Non-Citizens”. Russian Ethnics Minorities in the Baltic Sea Region

With this speech I would like to draw the attention of the public on a matter that is very close to us, as Italians and Europeans, although less known among the majority of the people and often wrongly covered with exoticism. I want to deal with the case of the …

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