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093731
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MEZHDUNARODNAIA ZHIZN', a foreign policy journal, was started in Moscow in 1954 by the popular and influential Znanie (Knowledge) educational society if we trust the imprint. In fact, it was a periodical of the Foreign Ministry of the U.S.S.R.; today, 55 years later, it remains a publication of the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation. The Znanie Society disappeared together with the Soviet Union; today, there is no need to camouflage the editors' close creative and other ties with the Foreign Ministry. In short, I am going to write about the 55th anniversary of the journal.
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093730
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First of all, I would like from the bottom of my heart to congratulate the staff of Mezhdunarodnaia zhizn' on the journal's 55th anniversary.
Your journal has at all times been one of the most influential foreign policy publications. It can rightfully be called one of the patriarchs of the country's information field. It has also possessed a kind of a "home" element, which lent it a special color, giving ministry officials greater possibilities, as it were, for "freedom of expression.
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093745
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2009.
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THE COLLECTIVE SECURITY Treaty Organization summit that met on 4 February 2009 in a special session of the Collective Security Council (CSC) decided to set up Collective Rapid-Reaction Forces (CRRF) of the CSTO.
Acting on the fundamental provisions contained in the Collective Security Council's decision this past February, a team of experts of the Organization and of the member states drafted and submitted to the presidents, on 14 June 2009, a number of top-priority documents regulating activities of the CRRF. In particular, the Collective Security Council members examined and signed a framework agreement on Collective Rapid-Reaction Forces of the CSTO and appropriate annexes.
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093746
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2009.
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MANY PROMINENT political and academic figures have announced the end of financial globalization as it was before the crisis. The philosophy of globalism itself based on the rapacious use of the planet's resources and complete disregard for the interests and the future of those not included among the "gold billion" has taken a severe blow. The saying goes that nature abhors a vacuum, thus a new paradigm of development of civilization is supposed to come along and replace the failed theory of mono-centric global management of the world.
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093728
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2009.
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TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK about the fundamental issues of contemporary diplomacyits subject and method. Ours is the time of sweeping transformations which call for profound comprehension, otherwise the diplomacy of any state might lose its contacts with reality and, therefore, its efficiency of a foreign policy instrument. The examples are too recent to be neglected.
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093749
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2009.
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SO FAR HISTORIANS AND POLITICAL SCIENTISTS have failed to arrive at a more or less concerted opinion about World War II, which marked a turning point in the history of the 20th century. In recent years, the discussion has spilled beyond academic frameworks. It means that new eloquent facts and documents are no longer enough to uphold one's opinion: the entire ideological concept the Western experts apply when dealing with the events and evidence of the 1930s-1940s should be refuted.
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093729
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A. I. Denisov: Mr. Obama has completed his initial period in office as president of the United States. To be more accurate, nine of 48 months of his first presidential term have passed. It is a considerable period, and as far as we know, the basic parameters of US policy, the policy of the Democratic administration, have already been finalized or are close to finalization. This also applies to its policy with regard to Russia. On the one hand, it is too soon to sum up the first results of the "resetting" of relations, because the "resetting" process continues, going through a fairly active phase. On the other hand, something definitive has already been accomplished. This refers primarily to the climate, the atmosphere of our relations. One should not underestimate this apparently immaterial factor, because only a favorable atmosphere makes it possible to conduct constructive dialogue aimed at achieving what in political science is known as a "win-win" formula - i.e., a situation that is advantageous to both sides.
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093744
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THE CURRENT WORLD FINANCIAL CRISIS has brought out not only common but also specific reactions of national economies integrated into the global economy. This article analyzes special features of the economic model that took shape in countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) - Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia - on the eve of the current world financial crisis. It also discusses major guidelines of the anti-cyclical policy and provides assessments of long-term effects of the crisis on the economies of CEE countries.
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093748
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It is an exceptional thing when a person lives for a hundred years. And Dmitry Fyodorovich's whole life, a bright and highly-charged pageant of events and activities, which has spanned a century, has been exceptional.
Right after the war, engineer Safonov was recruited into the diplomatic service. He did not have to wait long to find himself in the thick of things. In 1946, he, along with his family, went to work at the UN Secretariat as a foreign civil servant. Everything was new, unfamiliar, for the first time. And not only for him and his family: the life of a vast international structure was being formed and organized.
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093739
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2009.
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ON 20 AUGUST, 2009 Libyan intelligence officer, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, earlier sentenced to life imprisonment for the Lockerbie bombing, the biggest terrorist act in Britain's history, was released from prison in Scotland. Fifty-seven-year-old Megrahi was freed on compassionate grounds by Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill following reports that he had terminal prostate cancer and had less than three months to live. Megrahi arrived back home to national celebrations and acclaim, accompanied by the waving of Scottish flags, although only one dignitary, Saif al-Gaddafi, son of the Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, was there to greet him. Gaddafi received him the following day. Britain and America were outraged by this reception and by the release itself. The scandal spread and gained momentum, becoming increasingly intense as time went by.
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093750
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On 23 August 1939, Foreign Minister of Germany Joachim von Ribbentrop arrived to Moscow. After intensive talks that went well into the small hours of August 24 the Soviet Union and Germany signed a non-aggression treaty also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact by the names of the ministers who signed it as well as a secret protocol "on the delimitation of spheres of mutual interests in Eastern Europe.
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093747
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THE JOURNAL International Affairs and the Federation for Peace and Conciliation, which is the successor of the Soviet Peace Committee, have been successfully cooperating for many years. And it is worth noting that all this time both the journal's editorial board, as part of the mass media, and our organization, which represents the international peace movement, have essentially been engaged in a common cause. This is expressed in the study of and search for ways to settle problems of security and disarmament, resolve various international and regional conflicts, and analyze Russia's place and role in these processes. One of the tasks of both structures has been to influence public opinion, albeit at different levels indirectly at the mass media level and through direct citizen participation at the level of the nongovernmental community.
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093737
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THE MEETING OF THE SHANGHAI Cooperation Organization (SCO) heads of state, which took place in Yekaterinburg in June 2009 and where Russia handed over the SCO's rotating presidency to Uzbekistan, clearly showed both the achievements and the problems that this organization encountered over the past year. The main achievements are primarily linked to security cooperation between the member states. A meeting of SCO defense ministers in April 2009 approved a plan of cooperation between the defense ministries of the SCO member states for 2010-11, which envisages a number of multilateral and bilateral exercises - mainly antiterrorism exercises. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies also actively cooperate, their activities being coordinated by the Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure (RATS) headquartered in Tashkent.
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093741
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2009.
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The Islamic Republic of Pakistan (IRP) - one of the largest Muslim states (the fifth largest in the world) and the only one that has nuclear weapons - is currently going through what is probably the most difficult period in its history. A combination of the growing terrorist threat, fueled by radical Islamism, Talibanization, ethnic separatism, and financial and economic difficulties has caused a deep, countrywide crisis.
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093733
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2009.
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RUSSIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION are natural partners of high importance for each other in practically every sphere of international affairs. There are many factors responsible for their close cooperation. The most important among them are their geographic proximity, shared history, their belonging to the same European civilization, and adherence to the same moral and cultural values.
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093735
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2009.
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THE 64TH SESSION of the UN General Assembly opened in New York in September. The apparently routine, traditional forum this time was really special. That was due not only to a record high participation of UN member states (even though it was a regular, not jubilee session, more than 120 heads of state and government arrived in New York) but also to the wide range of international issues demanding coordinated decisions on the part of the world community. Naturally, the level of participation by UN delegations was also influenced by the Pittsburgh summit of leaders of the world's 20 largest economies.
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093743
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2009.
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IN THE CONTEXT of the global financial crisis the successful and highly influential Chinese development model looks like a natural subject of discussion all over the world which explains the interest to John Authers' article "China's Health Gives Rise to Fresh Growth Theory" that appeared in the weekend issue (6-7 June 2009) of The Financial Times.
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093742
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I WOULD LIKE to congratulate the editors, authors and readers of Mezhdunarodnaia zhizn' (International Affairs) with the 55th anniversary of this excellent journal.
Thanks to the indefatigable efforts and professionalism of editors and authors the journal invariably offers profound information about the latest international developments and supplies the readers in Russia and abroad with food for thought about Russia's foreign policies and its place and role on the international scene.
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