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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 …

Results of the Tourism Development Forum in Sochi, Russia

14:12 25.06.2014 Alexander Bondarenko

Results of the Tourism Development Forum in Sochi, Russia

Ministerial Meeting on Mega Events for Sustainable Tourism Development, a forum dedicated to the impact of major events on the sector of economy, convened in Sochi recently. No doubt, there were serious, in some regards, symbolic reasons behind nominating the city as a site for the convention. Known just years …

How the Balkans fell into debt slavery

21:22 02.06.2014 Konstantin Kachalin

How the Balkans fell into debt slavery

Debts after the collapse of the country of Yugoslavia into independent states grew 4.5 fold: from 20 to 90 billion Euros. An article in the Slovenian newspaper "Diary" recently covered this. The new countries in the Balkans are in a debt trap from which they will not be able to …

A “Combat government”?

14:38 02.06.2014 Roland Benedikter

A “Combat government”?

The outcome of the French municipal elections of March 2014 and the European elections of May 2014 will require action from France’s government for the rest of Hollande’s charge. Two events embody and manifest the present state of France: the national municipal elections of March 23 and 30, and the …

Europe’s Midlife Crisis. What the continent needs to do now

16:15 20.05.2014 Roland Benedikter

Europe’s Midlife Crisis. What the continent needs to do now

According to Karl Aiginger, the director of Vienna’s Economic Research Institute Wifo and adviser of the European Union, after five years of debt and currency crisis, Europe in May 2014 has arrived back at the point of 2009 when the worst started. That means that the European national debts and …

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