Everyone in Moscow tells you that if you want to understand Russia's foreign policy and its view of its place the world, the person you need to talk to is Fyodor Lukyanov.
Lukyanov is the chair of Russia's Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, as well as the editor-in-chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs, which are something like the Russian equivalents of America's Council on Foreign Relations and Foreign Affairs — though the Russian versions are considered much closer to the state...
... educated and older people who were more likely to vote.
Comparative profile of groups of American voters in 2014 congressional elections 2014, %
Voter turnout 2014
Proportion of US population
Ethnic group:
− white
75
62,6
− −hispanic
... ... completing high school
2
14,3
Age:
− over 65
22
14,1
− under 30
13
16.8
Source
Barack Obama’s hope that the USA’s Democratic Party will gain most from the introduction of a mandatory voting system at the federal level is confirmed ...
... limited scale. Hopefully, this will happen not only thanks to international support and the remaining Western military presence, but also due to the greater legitimacy of the new administration (compared with that of Hamid Karzai) as a result of the elections and further state building.
AP Photo
Kabul election rally, 2014
Until July 2014, this hope was fuelled by the successful experience of the presidential elections in Afghanistan (to the extent that they can be successful in Afghan conditions),...
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“Strangers in This Land” - the Tea Party’s Lament
. March 28, 2014
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To this end, the significance of the 2014 midterm elections lies much less in outlining the new ways for developing American society along the GOP lines, but rather in putting ... ... a lame duck, but also to utterly discredit him as the first black politician rising to American presidency. The repeated accusations of violations of the U.S. Constitution are not just campaign spin, but something with fairly definite post-election aftereffects....
Interview with Farkhod Tolipov, Director of Caravan of Knowledge
Interview
Afghanistan’s presidential elections on April 5б 2014 did not deliver an outright winner, and the second round is scheduled for late May. Although people in Afghanistan, the adjacent regions and the wider world all cherish the hope that the future Afghan president will usher in ...
Interview
Obama has a pretty good understanding of the modern world. He sees the changes, and knows the world much better than his colleagues and opponents. But he is uncertain of how best to manage things. Therefore, his foreign policy is likely to be reactive and shaped by the endless upcoming issues, such as potentially volatile changes outside the United States.
Fyodor Lukyanov
, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Politics magazine and member of RIAC
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How do you assess the U.S. election campaign...
Interview
Russian policy is a field in which the United States should rise from the tactical to the strategic level. The reset has yielded Washington some valuable but, at the same time, limited results. However, U.S. foreign-policy decision-makers usually ignore the importance of relations with Moscow, viewing it through a prism of maintaining a stable global and regional balance, for example in Asia-Pacific.
Interview with
Dmitri Trenin
, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center and RIAC member...
... Politicians and diplomats should be realistic and avoid the “spirit of the Crusades.” Reason for optimism is the shift of generations and the untapped potential relationships at the level of business, civil society and experts.
Election campaign in the USA is gaining momentum. The main competitor to the current head of the Oval Office, President Barack Obama is Mitt Romney. Hardly one of the candidates will succeed with convincing preponderance by the time of the elections. As usual, the American electoral race remains intriguing. But Romney has all the chances to become the new U.S. president.
In Russia, this perspective is seen without much enthusiasm. Republicans are known for a penchant for hard dialogue with ...
