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GLOBAL POLITICS today are faced with a lot of new challenges and international security threats. Domestic and foreign media outlets daily report new developments regarding tensions in Russia-U.S. interstate relations; sharp confrontation with mutual threats to use nuclear weapons between North Korea, on the one hand, and the United States, South Korea and Japan, on the other; a serious worsening of interstate relations between certain EU member countries, as well as of the stability of this interstate union as such; the successful military operations of the Syrian Armed Forces with support from the Russian Aerospace Forces in antiterrorist operations against ISIS and its allies, and a new political crisis in Ukraine.
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