... illegitimate and of what national leadership should entail.
Andrey Kortunov:
Restoration, Reformation, Revolution? Blueprints for the World Order after the Russia-Ukraine conflict
It would be hard to argue that Ukraine has already emerged as a model of Western-style liberal democracy. But the country is persistently moving in this direction—slowly, inconsistently and with understandable setbacks and inevitable procrastination. Russia, in turn, is not a classical Asian or European authoritarian state,...
... Gasyuk, Rossiyskaya Gazeta’s foreign affairs correspondent
Jeffrey Sachs
, a renowned Columbia University Professor of economics and former Special Advisor to three UN Secretaries-General, espouses views uncommon for the mainstream media in the West when it comes to the real origins of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Professor Sachs argues that peace negotiations in earnest should start immediately, proceeding from Ukraine’s neutrality and no NATO enlargement. He does not believe in isolating ...
Working Paper #66, 2022
Working Paper #66, 2022
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict will lead to long-term global socio-economic and political consequences in the foreseeable future. Russian and foreign experts are currently exploring a wide range of scenarios for such transformation—from relatively positive to extremely negative. The author formulated three potentially possible options for the current world order transformation, assessing the probability and consequences of the practical implementation...
On May 4, 2022, the European Leadership Network (ELN) held an expert meeting focusing on the issues of strategic stability in the context of an acute conflict between Russia and the West.
On May 4, 2022, the European Leadership Network (ELN) held an expert meeting focusing on the issues of strategic stability in the context of an acute conflict between Russia and the West.
Various aspects of strategic stability were discussed, ...
For the West, the battle for Ukraine has become the battle for Russia. The battle for Russia is only the first phase of the battle against China
For the West, Russia’s actions in Ukraine have revealed and confirmed the true face of Russia and its leadership....
Russia has only temporarily captured China’s seemingly entrenched role as a major U.S. villain, while the West will fight for the narratives to influence the minds and hearts of the rest of the world
Russia and the world are living through times of change. Russia has started a “special operation” in Ukraine, and the West can do little or nothing. Impotence ...
The sanctions signal the strategy of economic eviction and dramatic abandonment of the West’s earlier strategy of a truly globalized capitalist economy, in which Russia and China are stakeholders
For Russia, this moment is even more of a hinge in history than most hinges tend to be. The future of Russia, and indeed that of the world ...
Numerous visits of Western leaders to Moscow on the eve of the crisis are among the foreign policy failures, and the Russian side failed to persuade anything, with political and diplomatic compromise considered unattainable
Moscow: Historians will probably label the eight-year ...
Closer Sino-Russian alignment is mainly driven by a shared feeling of facing Western military and normative pressure, resulting in a growing identification of each other as desirable and comparatively trustworthy partners
In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s highly publicized visit to the Olympic Games in Beijing, and a joint Sino-Russian ...
... social justice and climate change, arms control and nuclear nonproliferation, national sovereignty and multilateralism.
Alexey Gromyko:
Diplomacy vs Brinkmanship
It is not surprising that this statement has received a lot of criticism coming from Western media. Beijing and Moscow have repeatedly been accused of forging an "alliance of autocracies" threatening the West. US and European journalists, experts and politicians argue the Chinese and Russian leaders demonstrated that they do ...
