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Turkey-Israel: caught between friendship and enmity

10:41 14.02.2019 Andrey Isayev

Turkey-Israel: caught between friendship and enmity

In 1949, Turkey became the first Muslim country to recognize the State of Israel. Territorial disputes with Iraq (Ankara claims the Mosul region as Turkish territory) and with neighboring Syria (which has never recognized Alexandretta Sanjak, Hatayt vilayet’s joining Turkey after WWI) necessitated a search for a regional ally. Moreover, …

Will the Malthouse compromise work?

11:06 07.02.2019 Elena Ananyeva

Will the Malthouse compromise work?

On January 15, the British MPs cast their ballots on the Agreement on the British Withdrawal from the EU, which T. May had reached with Brussels [1] - “Plan A”. The government lost the vote [2]. On January 29 they voted on the government ‘s "plan B". In fact, the …

Europe – Hell is other people (Europe after the Brexit, NATO 70 summit and Turkish geopolitical vertigo)

12:33 29.01.2019 Anis Bajrektarević

Europe – Hell is other people (Europe after the Brexit, NATO 70 summit and Turkish geopolitical vertigo)

A freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook brings no comforting picture to anyone within the G-7, especially in the US and EU: The WTO Round is dead, trade wars are alive, GCC is rapidly Pakistanising while the Asia’s core and Far East slows down. No comfort either comes from the …

Vladimir Putin in Serbia - brotherhood and geopolitics

11:00 25.01.2019 Slavisha Batko Milacic

Vladimir Putin in Serbia - brotherhood and geopolitics

President Vladimir Putin visited Serbia on January 17, making his first official trip to Serbia since 2014 and fourth since coming to power. Several-hour program was marked by the signing of more than twenty agreements. Also, contracts were signed to such areas as nuclear energy, space exploration, as well as …

Europe-US: results of 2018 and prospects for 2019

11:37 14.01.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

Europe-US: results of 2018 and prospects for 2019

Speaking at a December 4 news conference in Brussels following a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said that the rule-based multilateral world order that for many decades has served the collective interests of the Western nations is no longer working. He backed up …

Harbingers of global economic crisis

14:51 06.01.2019 Andrey Torin

Harbingers of global economic crisis

The upcoming global and financial crisis has been much talked about in the world, but what no one is talking about is how to avoid this crisis, survive it or, most importantly, what to do next. Neither is anyone pointing to the erratic approach to ensuring a smoothly working global …

Libya: Blind alleys of political settlement

11:55 26.12.2018 Viktor Goncharov

Libya: Blind alleys of political settlement

An international conference on Libya, mediated by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte that was recently held in Palermo, Sicily, was looking for ways to reconcile the rival centers of power and generally stabilize the situation in the long-troubled North African nation. One of these main power centers is the Government …

How to avoid Korean Zugzwang

13:14 19.12.2018 Vladimir Petrovsky

How to avoid Korean Zugzwang

The news about the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s decision to put off the inter-Korean summit in Seoul due to domestic political agenda gave rise to speculation that before heading to South Korea he might be willing to hold a meeting with US President Donald Trump.This means that the possible …

Crimes without statute of limitations: Nazism and the Baltic states

12:59 11.12.2018 Andrey Torin

Crimes without statute of limitations: Nazism and the Baltic states

Lithuanian "national partisans" escort Jews to Fort No. 7.Kaunas, Lithuania, 1941. From the Yad Vashem photo archive (Israel). Photo: lehaim.ru.Moscow has hosted the presentation of a joint report by the Russian non-governmental organizations “The Legacy of the Second World War in the Baltic States: How to Restore Justice for Victims …

Bleak See on the Black Sea

15:09 07.12.2018 Anis Bajrektarević

Bleak See on the Black Sea

Following the latest events in and around the Black Sea, two old questions are reappearing. Both are inviting us for a repeated elaboration:If a Monroe doctrine (about the hemispheric security exclusivity) is recognised at one corner of the globe, do we have a moral right or legal ground to negate …

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