The trip is likely to be quite special and important
In mid-May Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will fly to China on an official state visit. A sceptic would say that this visit is not really a big deal: the Russian leader and his Chinese counterpart, Chairman Xi Jinping had bilateral meetings at least forty times since 2013, when Xi was first elected as Chairman of PRC. The Russian President was in Beijing last time no longer ago than in October of 2023, when he participated to the high level...
The architecture of U.S. global air defense is gradually built around major hubs, some of them covering East Asia
Washington’s ambivalent approach to global strategic stability became clear back at the time of the New START signed in 2010. Despite Russia’s concerns, the document failed to enshrine any restrictions on the development of the U.S. air defense. Article XIV and Russian President’s
statement
stipulate that any buildup of the U.S. air defense capabilities in terms of quality and quantity...
... parity, peaceful coexistence with the United States, and the establishment of a balance of interests between Russia and the United States, taking into account their status as major nuclear powers and special responsibility for strategic stability and international security in general”. See: The Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, 2023 // Russian Foreign Ministry, March 31, 2023. URL:
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/fundamental_documents/1860586/
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... above the stated NATO goal to oblige all of its members to allocate no less than 2 percent of their GDP to defense.
Zhao Huasheng, Andrey Kortunov:
Prepare for the Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security
No doubt, national leaders find many compelling reasons for their decisions to raise the stakes in global military competition. As many times before, they are actively engaged in an endless blame game with a clear intention to impose ...
On scenarios and conditions for the development of relations between Moscow and Pyongyang
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to North Korea, or the DPRK, which has been under discussion since January 2024, could not only be perceived as a reciprocal visit after the North Korean leader’s visit to the Russian Far East in the fall of 2023 but also as an extremely important step in bolstering relations between Moscow and Pyongyang.
Vladimir Putin visited North Korea in 2020, and along with the...
... Strategy, HSE University; Peter Topychkanov, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies, IOS RAS; Irina Serenko, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies, IOS RAS; Marianna Yevtodyeva, Senior Researcher at the Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS; Aleksei Zakharov, Research Fellow at the International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism, HSE University; Alexandra Zueva, Expert at the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy, HSE University; ...
Is the human mind truly limitless?
April 22, 2024, marks the 300
th
anniversary of the birth of Immanuel Kant, one of the most significant figures in the history of philosophy. His life and works are inextricably linked to the University of Königsberg, which today bears the name of this great scholar as the Baltic Federal University, a major educational centre in Russia. In addition to celebrating the anniversary, a large-scale scientific conference dedicated to Kant is taking place at this institution...
... accumulated experience can then be transformed into permanent institutions focused on a broader range of security issues.
Zhao Huasheng, Andrey Kortunov:
Prepare for the Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security
An important issue of the new structure will be its functional orientation. NATO, in the past, emerged as an instrument to contain the USSR, and today the alliance has received a new life, trying to solve the problems of containing ...
On April 5, 2024, the discussion club of the Russia-Republic of South Korea Dialogue held a session dedicated to security issues in Northeast Asia
On April 5, 2024, the discussion club of the Russia-Republic of South Korea Dialogue held a session dedicated to security issues in Northeast Asia. The keynote speeches were delivered by Anton Khlopkov, Director of the Center for Energy and Security Studies and RIAC Member, and Cha Du-hyeogn, Senior Research Fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies...
On April 3, 2024, the international multimedia press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group hosted a roundtable discussion “NATO: 75 Years at the Forefront of Escalation,” marking the 75th anniversary of the alliance’s founding
On April 3, 2024, the international multimedia press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group hosted a roundtable discussion “NATO: 75 Years at the Forefront of Escalation,” marking the 75th anniversary of the alliance’s founding.
The speakers included Andrey Kortunov...
