... unique example of a struggle in which the forces of the opponents are approximately comparable, although the superiority of the West is significant. We absolutely do not know how the countries of the World Majority would behave in conditions where the USA and Europe launched an offensive against a weaker adversary: for example, against Iran or another country of a comparable scale. Therefore, we cannot say to what extent the self-confidence of those countries that do not obey US orders now, would manifest ...
Interview with Tobby Simon, President of the Synergia Foundation
Today, India is becoming a prominent player on the global technological arena. How India is achieving this? How does this country protect its technological sovereignty in a fragmenting world? Are there any prospects for cooperation between Russia and India in the field of high-tech? We talked about this and many other things with Synergia Foundation President Tobby Simon.
Today we are witnessing a global trend towards technological...
... aims against Ukraine, noting that the
Kinzhal
missile is ‘a
consequential
weapon … with the same warhead on it as … any other launched missile. It doesn’t make that much difference, except it’s almost impossible to stop it’. Similarly, USAF Commander Gen. Wolfers claimed that Russia’s aim was ‘to
demonstrate the capability
and attempt to put fear in the hearts of the enemy’.
In other words, Russia appears to have used the
Kinzhal
case in an attempt to control escalation between ...
Africa is big enough to accommodate everybody—its needs are incredibly huge and its prospects are truly breathtaking
Just over a year ago, at the US-Africa leaders' summit in Washington in December 2022, President Joe Biden made a public commitment to pay a visit to the Cradle of Humankind. However, he is unlikely to keep his promise, at least not before the US presidential elections in November. Still, Africa already had a lot of the US' attention: a long chain of top-level US officials showed...
The World Majority countries do not set themselves the task of breaking the existing international order and destroying globalisation. However, they are gradually increasing the degree of their independence in determining foreign policy decisions and economic partnerships.
The World Majority countries do not set themselves the task of breaking the existing international order and destroying globalisation. However, they are gradually increasing the degree of their independence in determining foreign...
Whether many of us in Russia are ready to admit it or not, the position of Europe in international politics will inevitably become an important issue of theoretical and practical significance
Whether many of us in Russia are ready to admit it or not, the position of Europe in international politics will inevitably become an important issue of theoretical and practical significance. For the great powers, the urgency of this issue is determined by what they associate with Europe in their own plans...
Within a short period of time, the situation in the Baltic Sea region has changed radically
Within a short period of time, the situation in the Baltic Sea region has changed radically, writes Konstantin Khudoley, head of the Department of European Studies at the Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University.
During the Cold War, the Baltic Sea had a low level of confrontation, and after it ended, the region was clearly dominated by trends towards the development of mutually...
... less powerful А800 and H800.
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Indicatively, fearing new export restrictions by the Biden administration, the Chinese technical giants (Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba) immediately accepted this alternative version and ordered tens of thousands of processors.
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Owing to the high demand, However, in October 2023, new US sanctions followed, this time banning the supply of H800 and A800 GPUs to China. Nvidia is again planning to develop special versions that would not be subject to ...
... States are about the likelihood of an escalation of their differences in Eastern Europe. China and the United States are also showing serious restraint and skilfully resolve their differences without bringing them into direct conflict. The fact that thousands of human lives become the price for general revisionism is a huge tragedy. But in conditions when a major conflict is impossible and irrational, and the contradictions between many powers aimed at revising the international order are great, it ...
He lived long enough to see the system of international relations, to which he had devoted his long professional career hook, line and sinker — running amok and collapsing
On July 30, 1894, Otto von Bismarck, the elderly first chancellor of the German Empire and a prominent statesman of the 19th century, was dying in his estate near Hamburg. As he was passing away, he whispered in his deathbed delirium: “I am dying... proceeding from the common national interests, it’s impossible....”
A very...
