... of the ravaging second wave of a severely mutating pandemic threatening to embarrassingly overwhelm the nation’s abysmal healthcare apparatus?
Taming the First Wave: The Modi Government’s Alacrity on Display
Andrey Kortunov:
Global Victory Over COVID-19: What Price Are We Willing to Pay?
When the virus proliferated during early 2020, India was invariably perceived as the weak link, with no easy choices on hand. No wonder then that Prime Minister Modi bit the bullet and opted for a stringent ...
... mutual interests, improve multilateralism, and develop opportunities for their SWFs, writes Valdai Club Programme Director
Yaroslav Lissovolik
. Additionally, it would act as an emergency tool in easing the impact of a global crisis, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, as it can be employed as an anti-crisis measure via the investments of the G20 states’ SWFs.
Perhaps one of the few areas where a consensus is crystallizing across the major powers of the global economy is on the urgency of advancing ...
What does the world community need to undertake to address the weak response to the pandemic?
What does the world community need to undertake to address the weak response to the pandemic? Nearly every major crisis faced by the world in the past was followed by a reconfiguration of global architecture, with new coordination mechanisms and new international organizations being created. Perhaps this time it is not so much about the creation of new organizations, but rather the greater responsibility...
... strengthen positive connectivity and improve the competitiveness of all participants but will also be a solid foundation in building a common continental space of peace and stability, he said.
Q2.: Your comments on the global multilateral response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the issue of equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines. What role could the UN and other multilateral organizations play in resolving conflicts and ensuring the rule of law in relations between states?
Answer: Despite efforts ...
Russian economic growth has underperformed the global average almost every year since the 2008-09 financial crisis
Russian economic growth has underperformed the global average almost every year since the 2008-09 financial crisis. But it’s far from a homogenous pattern: in fact, since 2017, there has been a pronounced trend toward increasing divergence across the main sectors of the Russian economy. This has been significantly accentuated by the Covid crisis. The sectors exhibiting the highest...
Despite calls from the United Nations, the Global North does not deem it necessary to change its sanctions policies
March 2021 marks a year since the World Health Organization announced that the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 had turned into a pandemic. Despite the highly negative socioeconomic consequences it had for the international community, the U.S.-led countries of the North did not alter their course to prevent the UN General Assembly from adopting resolutions ...
... funded by British private industry and the Russian government. International rivalry can evolve and grow into cooperation when the incentive is there. In the last year there has been a new ‘space race’ between scientists keen to develop the first Covid-19 vaccine, with Russia even naming its vaccine after
Sputnik
, the first satellite, which translates as ‘fellow traveller’. The message has never been more relevant.
If the world is to succeed in combatting the coronavirus pandemic and similar ...
... relaxed Christmas period only to kick start 2021 with more lockdown restrictions related to the finding of a new variant of the virus, which has been fundamental in reshaping our human existence since early 2020.
The threat posed by the new strain of COVID-19 is only adding fuel to the frustration felt by many across the continent, which only complicates those in Brussels and national governments across the world.
Italy may serve as a good example, as the country's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte decided ...
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amounted to 17.1% of gross national income, in 2019 it already reached 39.4%, and in 2018 an anti-record was set since 1996 and it was 41%. However, now there is practically no accurate data that would assess the damage to the economy caused by the COVID-19 virus.
The last decade has been a rather difficult period in the modern history of Egypt. The Arab Republic has gone through two revolutions, and amendments to the constitution were adopted twice. The level of the terrorist threat has increased,...
Report № 64/2020
Report № 64/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on many areas of society, and the higher education sector is no exception. The activities of higher education systems and individual educational institutions have faced tangible transformations. The report ...
