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Alexander Lukashevich: OSCE is not in its best shape

11:32 10.08.2020 Anna Yershova

Alexander Lukashevich: OSCE is not in its best shape

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has celebrated the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act. The news agency Rossiya Segodnya marked this memorable occasion by hosting an online briefing by Russia's Permanent Representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich.“August 1, 1975 ushered in a new …

Latin America – Russia: an Agenda for Constructive Cooperation in the Post-COVID-19 Era

21:02 06.08.2020 Juan Martin González Cabañas

Latin America – Russia: an Agenda for Constructive Cooperation in the Post-COVID-19 Era

On Tuesday, August 4, the outstanding video-conference “Latin America – Russia: an Agenda for Constructive Cooperation in the Post-COVID-19 Era” was held organized by the Valdai Club , the Russian Embassy in Guatemala, the AMerican CHAMber of commerce (AmCham), the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) the SIECA(Central American Secretariat for Economic …

5G: a Geostrategic sector for Algorithmic finance

12:16 03.08.2020 Alessandro Zeoli

5G: a Geostrategic sector for Algorithmic finance

The last ones were days of increasing tensions between the two biggest economic superpowers, the USA and China. The geopolitical crescendo seems to become always more intense, and the two giants are trying to build up two strong alignments against one another in a competition that Bloomberg defines a “Cold …

Life and travel in a new normality…

11:54 28.07.2020 Alexander Moiseyev

Life and travel in a new normality…

Weary of the COVID-19 epidemic and feeling the pinch of significant financial losses during the months of the coronavirus crisis, the world is in a hurry to open borders, restart air traffic and resume tourist travel without even waiting for the pandemic to fizzle out. Simultaneously, many countries are doubling …

Cyber-security threat and italian resilience

11:55 25.07.2020 Cristina Semeraro

Cyber-security threat and italian resilience

There is a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it is not about who has got the most bullets. It is about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think…it is all about the information. (From the movie Sneakers, 1992)Cyber …

Turkey-EU: contradictory friendship with no strings attached

0:13 23.07.2020 Andrey Isayev

Turkey-EU: contradictory friendship with no strings attached

It looks like Turkey’s European choice, proclaimed by [the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal] Ataturk, is finally becoming a thing of the past. Moreover, this trend is apparently being supported by Europe.This process can be speeded up by Ankara's recent moves, which the European Union considers inappropriate: …

The Evaluation of Water-Resouces: a socio-economic perspective

11:59 22.07.2020 Alessandro Zeoli

The Evaluation of Water-Resouces: a socio-economic perspective

INTRODUCTIONWater is an essential element for the existence and persistence of life on Earth. It is fundamental for human lives, ecosystems, and industry; hence it is necessary for the provision (clearly connected to the quality and quantity of the available resource) of services, such as hydroelectricity generation and goods like …

Something to think about

12:06 21.07.2020 Jan Campbell

Something to think about

PART I – GENERAL SITUATIONThere is no doubt that after the NPC (National People’s Congress) ended, the special legislation in regard to Hong Kong and the program for creating jobs have been approved, the internal political, financial and international relations between USA, EU and RF have not been showing a …

India and outer space ambition: first crewed mission in 2021 and geopolitics involvements

11:47 17.07.2020 Cristina Semeraro

India and outer space ambition: first crewed mission in 2021 and geopolitics involvements

The Indian outer space programme has achieved an extraordinary progress in the last decade.The country is already known as the “bright spot” of the global economy, relying on a vast internal market, a highly young population and as one of the most sustained growth rates among the BRICS: all characteristics …

US vs EU: a new transatlantic trade war looming?

16:52 16.07.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

US vs EU: a new transatlantic trade war looming?

In an article, carried by the newspaper Handelsblatt, a group of German MPs from the Social Democratic party describe the possible new US sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project as a "threat to European sovereignty." Earlier, Bloomberg reported that the German authorities are mulling retaliatory sanctions against …

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