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US increasingly wary of Russia’s growing sway in the world

17:09 13.07.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

US increasingly wary of Russia’s growing sway in the world

According to a newly unclassified expert report [i] released in May by the Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) program, funded by the US Defense Department, “Russia is beating the US in the race for global influence.” Even though the study does not reflect the official position of either the Pentagon or …

Polonia: Poland’s diaspora policy

10:51 09.07.2019 Vladislav Gulevich

Polonia: Poland’s diaspora policy

In 2007, the Polish authorities for the first time adopted a government program to promote cooperation with the Polish diaspora (Polonia) and Poles abroad. In 2002, they introduced May 2 as Day of Polonia and Poles Abroad.The strategic objectives of this program for 2015-2020 include support for the development of …

Why does Ukraine fret so much about Russia’s return to PACE?

9:52 03.07.2019 Denis Baturin

Why does Ukraine fret so much about Russia’s return to PACE?

Ukrainian politicians and experts blame PACE’s decision to restore the Russian delegation's voting rights on President Volodymyr Zelensky and his administration, and also on the leadership of the Council of Europe for allegedly wanting to ensure the resumption of Russia’s annual contribution of 30 million euros to the Council’s budget. …

China-North Korea summit and the situation on the Korean Peninsula

14:49 27.06.2019 Vladimir Petrovsky

China-North Korea summit and the situation on the Korean Peninsula

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s two-day state visit to North Korea, which came against the backcloth of renewed correspondence between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attracted a great deal of attention as it was the first time in 14 years that China’s top official had arrived …

“Ukrainian Spring” Zelensky style

11:06 20.06.2019 Leonid Shchukin

“Ukrainian Spring” Zelensky style

The spring of 2019 may someday go down in the history of Ukraine as a time when Ukrainians experienced what could be described as a period of a “psychological thaw.” No matter who may be saying what about his or her “sixth sense,” or all sorts of quasi-scientific analyzes, hardly …

Investment flows to Europe down by half

9:25 17.06.2019 Yevgeny Pedanov

Investment flows to Europe down by half

Despite global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows sliding for the past three years, the authors of an annual United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) World Investment Report, presented in Moscow by the acting director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION), …

Article “On Victory Day” by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for International Affairs magazine, June 4, 2019

11:23 05.06.2019 Sergey Lavrov

Article “On Victory Day” by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for International Affairs magazine, June 4, 2019

The month of May and the fireworks are now behind us. The country and the world celebrated Victory Day, which is a holiday of war veterans, home front workers, and all the people of Russia and other victorious nations. There was a grand parade on Red Square and a wreath …

Why we should care about Julian Assange?

11:22 02.06.2019 Murray Hunter

Why we should care about Julian Assange?

Why we should care about Julian AssangeBecause next time they come for usMurray HunterWikileaks co-founder Julian Assange in 2010 published information provided to him by then-US Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning that comprised nearly 750,000 classified or unclassified but sensitive military and diplomatic documents.Among those documents was a collateral murder …

Will the Schengen zone survive?

12:02 31.05.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

Will the Schengen zone survive?

The problem of migration poses one of the major challenges to the future of the European Union. Residents in more than half of EU countries call for establishing a strict control of migration, in some cases, even suggesting a complete ban on migrant movements. Meanwhile, any productive solution to this …

Orthodox Church of Ukraine: running into problems or being a problem?

1:22 27.05.2019 Mikhail Leonov

Orthodox Church of Ukraine: running into problems or being a problem?

On May 15th the “honorary patriarch” of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine Filaret Denysenko held a press conference in his residence on Pushkinskaya Street in Kiev. Fully aware of the public interest in his vision of the relationship between his Kiev “Patriarchate” (the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate) …

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