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The pandemic, which from the outset Washington has “promoted” as a “Chinese scourge,” was designed to isolate China and put a full stop to globalization as we know it now, a phenomenon seriously affecting all major Western countries, including the U.S. We have witnessed a crisis in relations between Western countries – be it the […]

COVID-19 “We Are Paying for Our Carelessness”A. Chuchalin COVID-19: Battlefield or Cooperation Opportunity?A. Yakovenko Coronavirus: Political PhilosophyA. Shchipkov WORLD ISSUES The U.S. Economy in a Polycentric World: Prospects for Preserving Its PositionV. Supyan The Evolution of NATO’s Soviet and Russian Deterrence PolicyYu. Belobrov The Islamic Vector of Russia’s Foreign PolicyR. Abdulatipov CELAC:AResetM. Troyansky, O. Karpovich […]

The question arises: Was Alaska actually sold, or was it simply transferred to the operational management of the U.S. by a fictitious contract to avoid political upheaval?

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF INTERVIEWS CONTENTS WORLD ISSUES Germany and the U.S.: A Friendship of Convenience?V. Vasilyev The Main Directions of EU Policy in the Black Sea RegionS. Gavrilova Et tu, Emmanuel? Or Why the West Rewrites HistoryD. Demurin A WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East: The Road Toward It as Seen From MoscowN. Artemenkova, V. Orlov China-U.S.: Prospects […]

The outbreak of the trade war is associated with the election in 2016 of U.S. President Donald Trump, who in large part built his campaign on criticizing China and promising to put an end to its “unfair” trade practices that “rob America” and deprive its citizens of jobs. The fixation on anti-Chinese rhetoric was made […]

CONTENTS Sergey Lavrov Turns 70 To Provide Strategic Stability and Form a Just World OrderVladimir Putin A Diplomat Is Above All a PatriotS. Lavrov RUSSIA AND OTHER NATIONS Russia and Indonesia: 70 Years of Fruitful CooperationS. Lavrov Russia and Vietnam: Decades-Long FriendshipSergey Lavrov Vietnamese-Russian Comprehensive Strategic Partnership: Continuing Traditions, Confidently Looking Into the FuturePham Binh […]

THE 20TH CENTURY went down in history as a century of ideologies and sharp confrontation of states belonging to different systems, the Soviet Union and the United States in the first place. The 21st century has already demonstrated a mounting geopolitical confrontation of great powers that drew international business interests into their whirlpool.

ROUNDTABLE A New Understanding of Strategic Stability WORLD ISSUES Global Crisis as a Trigger of Geoeconomic Transformations: Challenges for RussiaD. Evstafiev, A. Ilnitsky Big Business in a Multipolar WorldA. Borisov The Islamic Factor in the Middle East and North Africa: The “Re-lslamization” PhenomenonYe. Zelenev, O. Ozerov Formation of a Political Elite for Modern Iraq: American […]

Tension around the Korean Peninsula is one of the main threats to international security. North Korea’s acquisition of nuclear and missile weapon systems has become a new serious factor in global strategic stability. Previously, during the cold war era, the only tool of control over strategic weapons was the relationship between Moscow and Washington. At present, the international situation has radically changed. New nuclear powers – India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea – regardless of whether or not the original five members of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) acknowledge them as such, are not under the control of either Washington or Moscow or Beijing, acting at their own discretion, as they see fit.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF INTERVIEWS “No Positive Changes in Washington’s Policy Toward Russia”Sergey Ryabkov WORLD ISSUES Russian-Chinese Relations: A New Historical Stage of DevelopmentI. Morgulov The U.S. in Afghanistan: From Military-Political Euphoria to the Dilemma of Troop WithdrawalM. Konarovsky Can North Korean Nuclear Missile Crisis Be Resolved? (Read this article online for FREE)G. Ivashentsov Islamic Maximalism and Minimalism: […]