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Peace or War in Cyberspace?

12:49 29.10.2018 Alexander Zinchenko

Peace or War in Cyberspace?

Information and communication technology (ICT) plays an unprecedented role in today’s world, but cyberspace is clearly lacking in security mechanisms that can guarantee stable and sustained world development. Insufficient information security is a barrier to investment in high-tech sectors. Digital technology with its artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, big data, …

“Gas War”: Europe as a Battleground

13:03 24.10.2018 Andrey Kadomtsev

“Gas War”: Europe as a Battleground

On October 11, the US Congress presented a bill aimed at reducing Russian gas supplies to EU (!).According to TASS, the document envisages the allocation of $1 billion to finance projects on the use of new sources of energy in the EU, as well as the provision of diplomatic and …

ROHINGYA: SOUTH ASIAN KOSOVARS?

13:03 18.10.2018 G. Ivashentsov

ROHINGYA: SOUTH ASIAN KOSOVARS?

INTERETHNIC CLASHES are not a rarity for many Asian and African countries, and foreign media outlets do not sensationalize them. However, what has happened around the Rohingya community in Myanmar in recent months has largely broken with this pattern. TV screens and newspaper pages have been filled with reports of …

Romania Militarizing the Black Sea Region

18:37 16.10.2018 Vladislav Gulevich

Romania Militarizing the Black Sea Region

Romania’s policy in the Black Sea region is aimed at creating strategic prerequisites for Bucharest to achieve long-term regional leadership.Russia is the only Black Sea country, which does not fit into the geopolitical landscape being built by Bucharest. It is a country with which Romania, as a member of the …

US Conducting Biological Experiments Near Russia’s Borders

13:31 15.10.2018 Sergey Filatov

US Conducting Biological Experiments Near Russia’s Borders

Two statements, almost simultaneously released by the Russia’s Foreign and Defense Ministries, once again raised the issue which, although rarely mentioned, is considered a “silent threat.”On September 25, Vladimir Yermakov, director of the Foreign Ministry’s Department of Non-Proliferation and Arms Control, told the media that Russia will not allow biological …

NON-STATE ACTORS IN TODAY'S INFORMATION WARS

16:00 08.10.2018 A. Smirnov

NON-STATE ACTORS IN TODAY'S INFORMATION WARS

RIVALRIES AND CONFRONTATIONS between states in the information space are a feature of today's international relations. Information is becoming one of the priority instruments in fighting for global domination.We agree with experts who believe that there exist two principal forms of information warfare, technological and psychological, the former targeting information …

Syrian Kurds between Washington, Turkey and Damascus

14:22 08.10.2018 Andrey Isayev

Syrian Kurds between Washington, Turkey and Damascus

The recent turmoil over Idlib has pushed the developments in Syrian Kurdistan out of political and mass media spotlight. However, it’s Idlib that will most likely host the final act of the drama, which has become known as the “civil war in Syria”.The self-proclaimed Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS), …

Religious radicalism as a trend

13:15 05.10.2018 Ye. Osipov

Religious radicalism as a trend

IN RECENT YEARS, much has been said about radicalism and its varied offshoots. True, the number of terrorist acts climbs up, the popularity of extreme right political forces grows, and the wave of left radical and anti-globalist movements, migration crises and international tension is rising. This is how everyday realities …

UN Security Council: A card-sharp at the table

18:57 29.09.2018 Maxim Dodonov

UN Security Council: A card-sharp at the table

Orange juice, jam and biscuits are on the table for a working breakfast served for the foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.Seated to either side of Sergey Lavrov are Foreign Minister of France Jean-Yves Le Drian (whom the Russian Foreign Minister was scheduled to …

Sergey Lavrov: We are not joining NATO, mind you!

18:32 28.09.2018 Maxim Dodonov

Sergey Lavrov: We are not joining NATO, mind you!

Russia and NATO are long-standing antagonists, even though the possibility of our country's accession to the North Atlantic Alliance was raised back in the days of President Clinton. Before that, the Soviet Union proposed the same in a note to that effect in 1954. Is genuine partnership possible now when …

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