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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the RBC media holding on current international issues, Moscow, May 15, 2020 Question: The coronavirus pandemic has already closed many countries. Do you think the world will be again as open and mobile as it was before the pandemic? Sergey Lavrov: Many discussions are being held on this issue today. Indeed, many COVID-19 response measures are being taken ...
... important to Russia’s status and self-image, Moscow must reduce its dependence on China by fostering its relations with other large economic and financial players: primarily European countries, India, and Japan. Although the crisis precipitated by the new coronavirus pandemic is still in its very early stages, it is clear that it has vastly accelerated the ongoing processes around the world. The most consequential is the intensification of Sino-American rivalry and the emergence of new global bipolarity. It is this ...
....S. authorities demand to release the American citizens jailed abroad ( https://www.state.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-at-a-pres…/ ). They are promising to impose sanctions against “guilty governments”, should their compatriots die due to the coronavirus. Meanwhile, the situation with COVID-19 in the American correctional facilities keeps deteriorating rapidly ( https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/ ). Many inmates are infected, some of them have deceased. There is hardly any medical assistance ...
... Vasily Kashin , Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, exclusively for valdaiclub.com . The politicisation of the situation with the coronavirus pandemic, which has gained ferocity in recent weeks, has led to a sad but logical outcome the search for the guilty. As a “genre”, the history of launching witch hunts for those responsible for contagious disease outbreaks is old and vulgar. Throughout ...
... communication” who just reads those texts immediately understands a great deal. It causes nothing but a smile because the people who write these things expose themselves in full view. The political striptease we are observing against the background of the coronavirus pandemic is not very attractive and makes you want to look away. This time will pass, and other times will come. People will encounter different problems but we will still hear the same tunes about Russian disinformation, about our driving in wedges, ...
... entrusted to me: last Saturday the leaders of the viewing turned out to be a special report on the history of the fight against pandemics in 14 th , 17 th and 18 th centuries (the only thing that actually worked back then was the quarantine, too) and a ... ... sector. But then Mr. Byun also adds something that sounds logical for any geographical areas and cultures: after the current coronavirus helter-skelter people may well begin to unite to create micro-energy systems and, of course, energy-saving devices ...
... must take a leadership role. China must take a leadership role. And for at least the three of our countries to be working cooperatively against natural or deliberate biological threats, I think, is one of the real cornerstones for us to prevent another pandemic like COVID-19. Andrey Kortunov: Coronavirus: A New Bug or Feature of World Politics? And that cooperation comes on a number of levels. I think that the biggest thing is simply open information sharing. But the second is a technical exchange. And going back to what we used to do in those ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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