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Rybakova: Despite high consumer confidence, living standards will fall due to sanctions; ‘Iranian scenario’ bad, but command economy worse; future sanctions will last longer, be harder to reverse; ruble, incomes will fall
Krivosheyev: Despite Medinsky’s remark, Russia not prepared to accept Ukraine’s terms on the Crimea, Donetsk Basin breakaways; Zelensky’s referendum proposal not logistically viable
Gallyamov: ‘palace coup’ in Russia can’t be ruled out once Ukraine operation disaster sinks in
Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks here on Friday [Feb. 4] with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony. The two leaders agreed to deepen strategic coordination in a cordial and friendly atmosphere.
Latynina: Russia won’t risk full-blown war with Ukraine and will instead stick with its strategy of waging hybrid wars, which are much easier to deny and much harder to lose.
ON DECEMBER 8, 1991, the heads of three Union republics – Boris Yeltsin (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic), Leonid Kravchuk (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic), and Stanislav Shushkevich (Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic) – signed the Belavezha Accords, dissolving the Soviet Union.1 That document was unprecedented in terms of international practice and its socioeconomic consequences for the once […]
This article notes that Washington and Tokyo intend to continue hindering Taiwan’s reunification with Mainland China, which would greatly strengthen Beijing’s position in the Pacific Ocean. Under the administration of President Donald Trump, the United States notably stepped up its support for Taiwan, in both expanding its official ties with Taipei and supplying it with American arms.
Golts: It is clear that Russia and the NATO countries have entered a new cold war.
The constant calls from European politicians to decide on a common strategy on Russia are evidence that so far the EU has only disparate principles concerning Russia, but it has not defined a long-term goal.
Golts: Helping Beijing build a MAEWS could undermine Moscow’s position on the global stage.