Humanitarian Aid vs Sanctions
On the pretext of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia seeks lifting sanctions. It is already clear to everyone that unprecedented world crisis is approaching, which...
Russia-China relations: Engagement abilities in managing their differences in Central Asia
Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moscow and Beijing have converted their relationship from being Cold War rivals to become realistic partners...
Russian-Japanese dialogue in the context of amendments to the Constitution
As Russia discusses amendments to the
Constitution, an issue of particular concern has been the amendment that
prohibits the alienation of Russian territories. The amendment will likely be
put...
Coronavirus: A blessing in disguise
Last week,
many universities and colleges in Europe and other countries canceled classes
and moved to online instruction amid coronavirus fears
as the authorities are trying to check the spread of the...
Russia’s Shift from “Greater Europe” to “Greater Asia”
When the Ukraine crisis broke out in 2014, political analysts pointed
out, quite rightly, that Russia without Ukraine would become more Asian. With
the country’s borders...
Sanctions on Rosneft’s Subsidiary- a Signal to Russia?
The US Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the
Treasury (OFAC) imposed sanctions on a Rosneft subsidiary. On February 18,
2020, US...
Strategic Partnership, Arctic-Style: How Russia and China Play the Game
Russian-Chinese technical-military cooperation in the 1990s started
when the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) initiated large-scale
rearmament based on Russian technologies. About 80% of Russian armaments...
Qassem Soleimani’s Broken Dream in Central Asia
Exactly two months ago, Iranian Major
General Qassem Soleimani was killed, whom the Shiite world considered a national hero, while the Sunni
regimes of the Arabian...
Sixty Years and Still Growing Stronger As UN University
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, one of Russia's
largest internationally oriented, educational and research
institutions, has marked 60th year of its establishment with series
of activities including an evening...
Putin’s Truth in the Era of Post-Truth
Every
day the newsfeed looks increasingly more like a rising tide of provocative
articles on the events of World War II, Nazis, concentration camps, the USSR,
Putin,...