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THE TRAGIC 20th CENTURY, which was mixing up ideologies, breaking up socioeconomic systems, unleashing global wars and then keeping the world almost continuously in a state of tense instability, at the same time gave rise to the special need for skillful, sophisticated and strong diplomacy. This effective foreign policy tool was being honed for decades and increasingly used by our country for the protection of its security and peaceful development.
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101878
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NOT LONG AGO, I read a book about the Germans who were offered by the Russian sovereign the opportunity to settle in Russia. In the early 19th century they began to settle in a vast area of 600 square kilometers in what later became the Taurida Province in Russia's south. The book's title is Baron Falz-Fein (Danilevich N.V. Baron von Faltz-Fein. Zhizn' russkogo aristokrata. M., 2001, 232 pages). I received it as a gift from its author, Nadezhda Vitoldovna Danilevich, who had studied this period in history for many years. Since she has long been closely associated with one of the oldest descendants of those German settlers, Baron von Faltz-Fein, who now lives in Europe, in the tiny Principality of Liechtenstein, she helped him with arranging his extensive archives and reminiscences and naturally had access to many details of the lifestyle of those remarkable settlers. Notably, as a painstaking researcher, she did not seem to pass up a single opportunity to retrace together with the baron, the trails left by Russian celebrities in the past. She must have shared with Baron Faltz-Fein the thrill of witnessing those historical trails.
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101871
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RUSSIAN-BELGIAN RELATIONS have deep historical roots. Traditionally, the trailblazers in their development were craftsmen and traders. Ever since the days of Lord Novgorod the Great, European wines, fabrics and laces have been held in great esteem. Meanwhile, those goods were brought to us by Frisian merchants from the Flemish coast. They also delivered Russian furs, flax fabrics, resin, and hemp to Western Europe.
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101869
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2010.
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WHY DO RUSSIA AND POLAND remain in an antagonistic embrace for far too long, and in defiance of common sense? Why are the past mistakes still alive? What is behind this and who is the gainer? This is not idle curiosity: the questions should be answered. Indeed, Russia's relations with Poland's EU and NATO neighbors are good or even model, to borrow an expression from our recent past.
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101873
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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS and Srecko Djukic, a prominent Serbian diplomat and man of letters, have been maintaining strong friendly ties. As a member of Serbia's embassy staff in Moscow during several years in the past he used to come to our office for interviews and discussions on political and literary subjects which were always interesting. Dr. Djukic has been posted since as Serbia's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Minsk, the Republic of Belarus. From Minsk, he was sending us his articles that appeared in the journal. His latest book VRéME ENERGIJE. Više od Diplomatije [ENERGY TIME. More than Diplomacy] was recently published in Belgrade. This is a revealing view of a diplomat on the pressing subject. We agreed with the ambassador for an interview to cover the issues raised in his book and other aspects of European and international power industry.
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2010.
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The idea of writing this report emerged in a situation that, to put it mildly, was not conducive to a grand scientific and political debate over European security issues. Even though the cannonade in South Ossetia had already died down, a full-blown diplomatic exchange of fire continued between the West and Russia over the Caucasus war.
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101879
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EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED 200 years ago the war of 1808-1809 and the joining of Finland to Russia were caused by the political and international processes triggered by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.
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101883
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I first met Boris in 1950 at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations where we both applied to become students of the legendary MGIMO.
Boris was a stately dark-haired handsome fellow wearing a soldier shirt. We knew he used to fly a bomber during the war. What we did was load bombs on the plane and flew to bomb the Nazis, he was telling us, callow young guys many of whom nonetheless had had their own share of suffering during the war that ended five years before that.
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101876
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2010.
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A REGIONAL CONFERENCE of Russian compatriots living in North and Latin America was held in the capital of Mexico. For two days, 40 delegates representing organizations of our compatriots in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Canada, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the U.S., Uruguay, Chile, and Ecuador discussed the problems facing the Russian diasporas, exchanged work organization experience, and talked with representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Russian World Foundation who had come from Moscow to participate in the undertaking. The conference held in Mexico with the active organizational support of the Russian Embassy and Federal Agency of CIS Affairs, Compatriots Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation was the third regional forum of its kind, bringing together members of compatriots' organizations living in the countries of the Western hemisphere.
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101880
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RECENTLY, historians have been displaying a lot of interest in prewar international relations in Europe and with good reason: new so far little-known yet weighty facts have come to the fore to be included in the history of diplomacy. The story of the so-called Bukovina railway (1936-1938) is one of such facts. It was designed to connect Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union via Rumania to serve the material foundation of the Soviet-Czechoslovak Mutual Assistance Treaty of 16 May 1935. This treaty as well as the Soviet-French Mutual Assistance Treaty of 2 May 1935 was enforced on the three capitals by the aggressive plans nurtured by Berlin, Warsaw and Tokyo confirmed by the secret Polish-German Agreement of 25 February 1934 on a war against the Soviet Union to be started approximately in the latter half of 1935.
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101874
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THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (IIS) at MGIMO-University of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) was formed in May 2009 as successor to the university's Problem Research Laboratory for Systems Analysis of International Relations founded in 1976. The founding of the IIS should be seen as an important event in the continuing development of MGIMO-University, an essential phase in turning it into not only a recognized center of education but a world-standard research center as well.
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2010.
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THE BREAKUP OF THE USSR signified the start of the process of geopolitical changes everywhere in the former Soviet Union. Many regions have become spheres of national interests of the world's leading states. The geopolitical importance of the Caucasus is indisputable and not accidental. One possible proof is that more than 30 states have declared the Caucasus to be the zone of their interests.
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101872
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2010.
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THERE IS A WELL ESTABLISHED VIEW that an administrative decision today can be correctly assessed and understood only by those who were directly involved in its elaboration and approval that is to say, administrators themselves. All others are destined to remain outside the bounds of the established democratic (or bureaucratic) procedure. Not only are they not in a position to influence the choice of a development scenario the choice is not even explained to them.
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2010.
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On April 5, U.S. President Barack Obama declared the entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) as one of the highest priorities of the nuclear disarmament policy. On April 15, B. Obama -for the second time since 1999 - urged Congress to ratify the document.
On September 16, the U.S. State Department announced the resumption of American participation in the Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the CTBT. U.S. experts started talking about the high probability of Congress ratifying the treaty.
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101875
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2010.
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THE ISSUE OF RECOGNITION OF STATES acquired a new relevance and topicality in connection with the declaration of independence by Kosovo, and then by South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Active debates were started concerning the basic criteria for the recognition of states; political and legal aspects of recognition, such as the emergence of a state as a subject of international law; the recognition of a state as a subject of international law only by a part of the international community, and its impact on the status of such a state. They became a subject of a recent roundtable discussion at the Institute for Contemporary International Studies, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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2010.
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ANOTHER WORLD CONGRESS of Russian Compatriots Living Abroad took place in Moscow. On the eve of this significant political event in the life of the Russian diaspora abroad, interest naturally turned to what was making various compatriots' organizations tick and how ready and willing they were to hold a dialogue and cooperate with their historical Homeland.
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2010.
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DESPITE THE POPULAR THEORIES of a clash of civilizations, such large and diverse countries as Russia and China provide an example (if not a model) of peaceful, mutually advantageous, and friendly cooperation. It is a commonly accepted fact that Russian-Chinese relations are playing an ever-growing role in ensuring international peace and security, stability, and development on our planet.
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101881
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2010.
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THE PROPOSAL of an assignment to Iceland made to me over the phone when I was on vacation by the chief of the Foreign Ministry Personnel Department who gave me two days to think about it, for the umpteenth time confirmed the correctness of my idea formed over more than 30 years of diplomatic service of the unpredictability of the chosen career.
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101870
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SINCE FULL-SCALE INTERSTATE RELATIONS were established between Russia and Slovakia in 1993, they have not been clouded by confrontational approaches and have on the whole been developing dynamically. To a very large degree, this is due to a number of factors that have objectively contributed and I hope will continue to contribute to the further rapprochement between our countries and our people. These include the proximity of languages and culture, a similar mentality, a shared production, transport and energy infrastructure that evolved in previous decades, and finally, the lack of any serious irritants in the recent history of bilateral relations, which would impede the movement forward.
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