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117411
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AMERICAN AUTHOR Anne O'Hare McCormick (1880-1954), whose life experience was interwoven with both world wars, packaged into a single phrase the lessons to be derived from the tumultuous epochs when she famously wrote: "Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it."
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117422
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FROM CONVOY GUARDIANS, through Cold War tensions, to partners in the Asia-Pacific, Australia-Russia relations have come a long way in 70 years.
The relationship between Australia and Russia long pre-dates the establishment of diplomatic relations 70 years ago. It reaches back to the first arrival of a Russian vessel in an Australian port more than two centuries ago. It spans the conflicts of the Crimean War of the 19th century, and the World Wars and Cold War of the last century. In this century it has developed to include increased trade between our two countries; cooperation in the Asia-Pacific through APEC and the East Asia Summit; and cooperation globally through the G20 and the World Trade Organisation.
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117416
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THE FOREIGN POLICY CONCEPT of the Russian Federation sets a course for Russia's full-scale involvement in the political and economic processes taking place in the Asia-Pacific Region (APR), for full and equal participation in the activities of all multilateral regional organizations in order to ensure a proper role for our country in this emerging center of world politics and to promote the development of Russia's eastern regions.
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117406
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2012.
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Armen Oganesyan, Editor-in-Chief of International Affairs: Mr. Prodi, some time ago you said that Europe had grown stronger through crises and that this could be done through solidarity of Greater Europe and infrastructural efforts. Do you think that this level has been achieved - if not what should be done to achieve it?
Romano Prodi: I said that Europe had always grown stronger through crises because this is true. We have lived through many crises. Even from the political point of view we gained a lot: think back about the empty chair of de Gaulle. I mean France and the European meetings, other foreign policy disagreements, the Iraqi war. You know, every time there were two Europes; I can add many more examples of this.
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117423
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2012.
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Scientific-technical breakthroughs and the tempestuous events in the Middle East and North Africa, one of the world's key areas of hydrocarbons production, are fraught with serious and dramatic changes in the sphere of global energy, energy supplies and energy trade. This is why leading specialists have gathered here today to discuss global energy development trends in the new geopolitical environment.
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117425
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2012.
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THIS GREAT PATRON OF THE ARTS lives in the small Principality of Liechtenstein high up in the mountains. His villa is hidden from prying eyes by cascading wisteria blooms and the spreading branches of an ancient spruce tree. To reach it, you need to follow the steeply climbing road from the center of Vaduz and, right before castle, take a barely perceptible turn to the left. This will lead you to the baron's villa, at the entrance of which is a sign "Askania-Nova" portraying the head of a horse. The host's favorite place is in the living room on a couch by the huge window that affords a magnificent view of the Swiss Alps.
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117408
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2012.
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MANY TIMES during the presidential campaign in the United States it was said that foreign policy and the relations with Russia were not the candidates' primary concerns. Is this true? In a tight election race even minor nuances and barely detectable variants of political interpretations are important. In America which is part of the globalized world foreign policy is merely another hypostasis of world economics which should not be treated lightly.
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117418
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2012.
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Armen Oganesyan, Editor-in-Chief of International Affairs: On instructions from the president, the Foreign Ministry is to come up, in December 2012, with an updated version of Russia's foreign policy concept. From your viewpoint, which are our foreign policy priorities you would by all means include in this concept?
A. Dugin: I can say that I'm doing appropriate studies as head of the Sociology of International Relations Department at the Moscow State University. This past spring, my team brought in a theory of multipolar world. This is a rather voluminous study whose provisions, I think, should be reflected in the doctrine. It is impossible to create a consistent foreign policy doctrine without explaining what a multipolar structure of the world is, without explaining what we mean by a multipolar structure of the world and how to form it.
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117412
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2012.
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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS is one of the most critical domains of modern public relations. Moreover, we use the definition of "critical" in this context not so much in the sense of "vitally important" as per its meaning, which is "full of criticism." Perhaps it is only medicine that in the consciousness of the man in the street is as "understandable" to all and criticized by all.
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117404
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2012.
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IN RECENT YEARS, the relations between Russia and the United States have been developing under the sign of the "reset" that was initiated in early 2009 by Russian President D. Medvedev and U.S. President B. Obama
The "reset" replaced an acute phase of confrontation. That was how the relations between our countries were described under the President George W. Bush's Republican administration in the U.S. Despite the highfalutin statements about partnership that were contained in joint Russian-U.S. declarations approved at the top level in 2002 and 2008. these relations, in the opinion of many experts, have dropped to the lowest point since the end of the Cold War. The culmination of that was the so-called Caucasus crisis in August 2008 when Washington openly took the side of the Georgian leadership that had provoked an armed conflict with Russia.
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117403
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2012.
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TODAY, THIS QUESTION is on the minds of politicians all over the world. Last September, it stirred up heated debates at the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly and was discussed at an informal Ministerial Round Table Discussion on the Responsibility to Protect: Deepening Our Commitment to Mass Atrocity Prevention initiated by a group of countries on the margins of the main event. The issue was pushed to the forefront by the recent and consequential changes in the world philosophy of crisis response brought about by the events on the international scene, the latest being the dramatic conflicts in Libya and Syria which shed a new light on the previous experience of conflict settlement. Opinions vary yet there is a more or less concerted conviction that it is the governments' priority to resort to preventive measures and to protect the civilians and that this should not be delegated to the international community. A group of predominantly Western countries accepts the above with a reservation that if preventive measures fail the international community should have the right to use force.
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117415
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2012.
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IN NOVEMBER 2011, at the 66th Session of the UN General Assembly, Brazilian delegation presented a document "Responsibility While Protecting. Elements for the Development and Promotion of a Concept"1 implicitly suggested by the fact that NATO and its partners had misused the mandate issued by the UN SC in March 2011 as a follow-up of its Resolution 1973 on a no-fly zone over Libya to prevent the Qaddafi regime from attacking civilian targets and civilian population from the air.2
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117417
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2012.
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DEFENSE AGAINST GLOBAL CHANGES and their negative effects which neither individuals nor states can cope with can be found in various fields of human activity, in the form of invigoration of people's hopes and dreams or their past experience. Psychological mobilization of the past, its ideas and its achievements as an answer to the problems of the present stirs up interest in the application of reverse psychology to political issues.
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117402
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2012.
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ON OCTOBER 2, 2012, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution on the monitoring of Russia. Our entire delegation voted against the resolution, since many of the provisions included in it are simply unacceptable for us.
Well before the opening session, it had become clear that the resolution would be adopted in such a harsh and incorrect version and so I decided to postpone my trip to Strasbourg. Against the background of such a provocative document, I simply would not have been heard by European parliamentarians. And I wasn't going to talk about this resolution at all, not about a difference of opinions but about strategic priorities and ways to overcome really common threats. For this is the main reason why our countries and peoples unite and why there is the need for such platforms as PACE.
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117421
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2012.
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International Affairs: Konstantin Vasilyevich, our meeting is taking place in the Russian pavilion (focusing on the Arctic) at the Expo 2012 in the city of Yeosu, Republic of Korea. The theme of the Expo is "The Living Ocean and Coast: Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities. " But the first question I would like to ask you is not about the Expo but about politics. The year 2012 was an election year: presidential elections were held in Russia and parliamentary elections in South Korea. Have the changes in domestic political life affected the relations between the two countries?
K. Vnukov: As for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Korea, I want to say that our relations are distinguished by their stability and do not depend in any essential way on changes in the domestic political situation. They have developed progressively and steadily.
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117410
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MODERN RUSSIA perceives itself, thinks and acts mainly as a European power. Its "Europeanness" is not related to the status of its relations with the European Union or other organizations west of the Russian borders. Being a Russian European is not synonymous to thinking that there is no alternative to the policy of integrating Russia into some alliances and groupings created in the Atlantic part of the Old World after the end of World War II and before the breakup of the Soviet Union. In building its foreign policy Russia proceeds from the premise that its most developed and densely populated part is in Europe and that for the past three centuries its political, diplomatic, economic, scientific and cultural history has been connected, above all, to this part of the world. Russia - one of the largest components of European civilization - has spread it over millions of square kilometers from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, bringing it not only to Siberia but also to the Far East and Central Asia.
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117420
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International Affairs: Mikhail Valentinovich, in May 2012, you became the head of the Russian diplomatic mission in the Kingdom of Denmark. So, what are the most vivid early impressions of your job in Denmark and where do you see its main challenges?
M. Vanin: My most vivid impressions of my early work days in Denmark stem from the meetings and talks I had with Danes - politicians, diplomats, members of business circles, journalists and ordinary citizens, each of whom is a bearer of the Danish national character, which wins you over with its openness, an active stance in life and a genuine interest in what an interlocutor is saying.
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117424
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2012.
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THE SUBJECT OF RUSSIAN EMIGRATION to Brazil has been more than once discussed in various studies by Russian authors, by academic and sociopolitical journals. This is of course a subject rich in fact and opinion and it makes you ponder now and again over the cruel fate of Russia's human potential that became scattered around the world during the last century. Even so, I'd like to put aside the generally known facts and sources and look at this subject in the light of a faraway community in Brazil's southernmost state where one could hear for a hundred years or so and see young people who don't look like stereotyped Brazilians, sing Russian folk songs and do spirited ring dances on holidays.
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117409
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2012.
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IN JANUARY 2012, Russian President V.V. Putin repeated the famous remark by Chancellor of the Russian Empire A.M. Gorchakov (1856-1882) in the title of his pre-election article, "Russia Is Concentrating: The Challenges We Must Address." Noting the difficult situation the country has found itself in as a result of "the deep recession that followed the collapse of the totalitarian model of socialism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union," as well as in connection with the crisis related developments in the world economy, the author observed: "Russia is not a country that shies away from challenges. Russia is concentrating, mustering its strength and responding to any challenges in a fitting manner. It overcomes trials and always wins... It only depends on us how we respond to the present challenges and how we use our chance to strengthen ourselves and our position in the fast changing world."
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117414
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THERE ARE several key regional structures - NAFTA, ASEAN, MERCOSUR, UNASUR, CARICOM, and the CIS - operating, due to their specifics, at different integration levels. The European Union stands apart from the rest by its sui generis status of a supranational* community determined, in the first place, by a wide spectrum of issues transferred to its supranational institutions. Having covered a long road of integration, it is still a developing supranational structure.
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