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War chemicals as a propaganda weapon

15:21 21.02.2022

War chemicals as a propaganda weapon

Chemical weapons were first used on the battlefield in 1915, but were banned after the First World War. There were many reasons for this. First, the armies had learned to defend against war chemicals. Secondly, the warring side that used them also suffered from their effect. Thirdly, new types of …

Invisible war

12:05 21.02.2022 Alexander Sheffner

Invisible war

Almost fifty countries have decided to evacuate their citizens and diplomatic missions from Ukraine. Some governments did not take such drastic steps, but they still moved their diplomatic staff from Kiev to Lvov in western Ukraine. British and American military specialists have also packed up and left. Not to be …

Diplomatic Worker Day. The Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy today

12:14 10.02.2022

Diplomatic Worker Day. The Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy today

Diplomatic Worker Day is an excellent opportunity to congratulate our colleagues on the occasion of this professional day and to wish them success in their work for the benefit of Russia's interests. Everyone who celebrates this professional day can also use it as an opportunity to evaluate and analyse the …

A shared global outlook. China and Russia open the Beijing Olympics with a shared position on the geopolitical situation

9:27 07.02.2022

A shared global outlook. China and Russia open the Beijing Olympics with a shared position on the geopolitical situation

The international conference "Russian-Chinese cooperation - the basis for the formation of a multipolar world," held on February 2, in the walkup to the 24thWinter Olympic Games in Beijing, received less media coverage than did the pre-Olympic events. At the same time, the event, organized by the Russian Academy of …

US conducting medical experiments on allies

22:36 04.02.2022

US conducting medical experiments on allies

The topic of US biological laboratories in Eastern Europe regularly springs up in local and Russian media. Funded by the US Department of Defense, other government agencies and pharmaceutical companies, they enjoy a special status in Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Georgia. In most of these countries, employees of such …

The war in Ukraine - would an Austrian solution be possible?

15:19 03.02.2022

The war in Ukraine - would an Austrian solution be possible?

What is it about?There has been a war in eastern Ukraine since 2014. 14 000 people have already died; several 10 000, including many civilians, have been injured. What is it about? In December 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine, until then a Soviet Socialist Republic, became independent. In …

Towards the Universal Criminal Justice. 20 Years After

10:46 01.02.2022 Anis Bajrektarević , Carlos López-Veraza Pérez

Towards the Universal Criminal Justice. 20 Years After

2020 marked the 20th anniversary of the Palermo Convention and its Protocols, the main instruments in the fight against transnational crime. Both authors, one as an active participant in the Palermo system treaty-making and the other as a prosecutor passionate about human rights, revisit, rethink and sum up the first …

2022 or 2020, too? (Of the West and its Self-annihilation)

11:52 28.01.2022 Anis Bajrektarević

2022 or 2020, too? (Of the West and its Self-annihilation)

The power of writing is that the dialogue is not only held with the contemporaries. Writing can reach future generations, too. Great poet Mak says: “when nobody listens, write”. How will we reflect on events of 2020-21 in about 5 or 10 years? How will we explain our indifference, silence …

Decarbonisation and Maritime Transhipment lines: Congested South VS Strategic North

19:33 24.01.2022

Decarbonisation and Maritime Transhipment lines: Congested South VS Strategic North

Following the Glasgow Climate summit (COP 26), the International Institute for Middle Est and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) conducts series of research papers and reports that aim at revisiting and rethinking the trans-Oceanic transport and pan-Eurasian (existing and possible) corridors, as a way to de-carbonise our planet for the universal betterment. …

World Re-binarized: A Brief history of the Sino-American collision course

19:27 24.01.2022 Anis Bajrektarević

World Re-binarized: A Brief history of the Sino-American collision course

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 …

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