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Political will is needed to foster multilateralism in Europe – Dr. Franz Fischler says

10:45 29.09.2020 Guido Lanfranchi

Political will is needed to foster multilateralism in Europe – Dr. Franz Fischler says

On July 1st 2020, a large number of international affairs specialists gathered in Vienna, Austria, for the conference “From Victory Day to Corona Disarray: 75 Years of Europe’s Collective Security and Human Rights System”. The conference, jointly organized by four different entities (the International Institute for Middle East and Balkan …

Long trends and disruption: the anatomy of the "post world" of the COVID-19 crisis

11:06 24.09.2020 Jacques Sapir

Long trends and disruption: the anatomy of the "post world" of the COVID-19 crisis

What will be the economic architecture of the world after the COVID-19 crisis? This question involves understanding the major trends at work for twenty years now.The world that will emerge from this crisis will be marked by these major trends, which, for some, will be reinforced by this crisis. However, …

Konstantin Sarkisov: Yoshihide Suga is a well-balanced and reasonable politician

10:39 17.09.2020

Konstantin Sarkisov: Yoshihide Suga is a well-balanced and reasonable politician

I think that of the three candidates who had vied for the premiership, Suga is certainly the most preferable in terms of our national interests. First, he is very close to the retired Abe. In general, I would like to say that previously Japan had a tradition where a prime …

China in Europe: Hit the (Belt and) Road Jack

9:58 16.09.2020 Maria Smotrytska

China in Europe: Hit the (Belt and) Road Jack

Today at a broader diplomatic and strategic level, the BRI has become a symbol of China's growing importance in international affairs, changing regional dynamics in geographical areas close to or even within Europe. At the most basic level, the strategic implications of expanding China's policy in the EU stem not …

A. Rahr: it is impossible to ensure Stability in the Old world without or against Russia

13:13 12.09.2020 Andrey Torin

A. Rahr: it is impossible to ensure Stability in the Old world without or against Russia

International Affairs: In 1990 foreign ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, together with their counterparts from the Allied countries in the Second World War – the USSR, the USA, Britain and France - signed a Treaty on the Final Settlement with respect to Germany. …

Gennady Gatilov: WHO, just like any organization, needs reforms

12:49 04.09.2020 Yevgeny Pedanov

Gennady Gatilov: WHO, just like any organization, needs reforms

“Flawed as it may be, the WHO plays a leading role and now is not the time to reform it. This is the opinion of Gennady Gatilov, Russia’s permanent representative at the Geneva offices of the United Nations and other international organizations. The main task now is to combat the …

Of COVID and Covetousness

12:56 01.09.2020 Côme Carpentier de Gourdon

Of COVID and Covetousness

A crisis as grave, prolonged and far-reaching as the current COVID pandemic could not fail to have many consequences in the medical, social and political domains, as much as in the global economy where its effects are nothing less than catastrophic. The repeated contradictions, inconsistencies and backtracking by major western …

Nikolai Mezhevich: unrest a sign of the times

13:09 28.08.2020

Nikolai Mezhevich: unrest a sign of the times

Brussels has hosted an extraordinary summit of the EU on the situation in Belarus. Commenting on this is Nikolai Mezhevich, Director of the Belarus Research Center of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Nikolai Mezhevich: We ought to avoid if possible being too emotional. We need to …

Observers: US Sanctions on Russian Institute Working on Sputnik V Caused by Fear to Lose Leadership

11:28 27.08.2020

Observers: US Sanctions on Russian Institute Working on Sputnik V Caused by Fear to Lose Leadership

As Moscow announced the beginning of post-registration trials of anti-COVID vaccine Sputnik V on 26 August, the US added a group of Russian research institutes, including the one testing the anti-coronavirus drug, to its sanctions list. International observers have discussed the US move unveiled amid the global effort to curb …

Belarusian President Lukashenko's Chances To Survive Protests Getting Increasingly Slim

10:15 21.08.2020

Belarusian President Lukashenko's Chances To Survive Protests Getting Increasingly Slim

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 18th August, 2020) Incumbent Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's prospects to remain in power are progressively loosing edge amid ongoing nationwide protests in the wake of a controversial presidential election, experts told Sputnik.Protests in Belarus have been ongoing since August 9, when a presidential election …

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