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152683
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AT FIRST SIGHT, Russia and South Africa are located so far from each other and are so different from each other, and yet they have much in common, including their immense, boundless spaces, a rich cultural diversity of different regions, and the thorny historical paths. What we know today as the Republic of South Africa, at different times included, among others, the Cape Colony (first Dutch, and then British), the Orange Free State and Transvaal Boer republics (established by descendants of Dutch immigrants calling themselves Afrikaners), as well as the Zulu Kingdom.
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152686
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THE ELEVENTH OF JANUARY of this year was the 100th anniversary of the death of the Russian Empire's last ambassador to the United Kingdom, Count Alexander Benckendorff, who is buried inside the Westminster Cathedral in London, the main Catholic church of England and Wales. This anniversary was, in a sense, a reminder of a mission that Benckendorff had in London, where he arrived in 1903, but was unable to fulfill. What was that mission, and why its failure still affects us today?
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152677
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THIS ARTICLE is a logical continuation of my previous essay, "Barack Obama: Preliminary Results of Presidency"1 that I ended with: "Obama has several months to go down to history not as the president of numerous conflicts and the state of international relations close to the Cold War but as the president who gave the world a slim hope of positive changes." Today, we can say that he has missed his chance to be remembered as a peacemaker and a realistically minded president who knew how to defuse international tension rather than fan it to worldwide dimensions. Indeed, he did all he could to leave behind a wasteland of American-Russian relations and not the slightest hope of positive changes any time soon.
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THIS IS THE SEVENTH TIME we are meeting in Yalta for what has already become a traditional international conference organized by the journal International Affairs with support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This time, our discussion is focused on the specifics of contemporary integration processes in the post-Soviet space. A quarter of a century has passed since the disintegration of the USSR and the formation of the CIS. This is a considerable historical period that gives us food for thought and discussion, as a result of which we could not only draw conclusions regarding the status quo of the Commonwealth but also outline its development paths for the future. At the same time, it is obvious that we are going through a very complex and dynamic stage that is leading to deeper integration.
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152671
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I WOULD START with the analysis of a topic that we could consider crucial: what is happening along the borders of Italy's southern coast? Analysts who spoke of "world disorder" with reference to the events, which are currently taking place in the Mediterranean region, probably used the most appropriate definition. If we think that last year we celebrated the anniversary of the Yalta Treaty - the 1945 conference that gave rise to a new "world order" - and that after seventy years, with the explosion of different trouble spots all over the world, we should almost go back to talking of "disorder," that idea makes me smile. That scenario was evoked several times, even in the Holy Father's words, when a few years ago, returning from a mission to South Korea, he said: "We entered the Third World War: only it is being fought in pieces, in chapters."
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152678
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IT SEEMS that the West is gradually turning to conservatism. At least this is how Donald Trump's victory at the 2016 presidential elections can be interpreted together with Brexit and the much stronger positions of the right-wing parties in Europe. The left liberal forces that fell into the trap of their own ideology and propaganda proved unable to adequately assess the developments in their own countries and elsewhere in the world.
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152673
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International Affairs: Dr. Akhtar, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) deals with a wide range of problems, but since the purpose of your visit to Moscow is to participate in the third session of the Ministerial Conference on Transport, it would be natural if we started by talking about transport. What effect does the process of unification of the transport networks of Asia-Pacific countries have on trade in the region and on economic and other ties in it?
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152681
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HAVING WON in the second round the primaries of the French Left. Benoit Hamon became the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party, an unexpected or even sensational victory that perfectly fits, however, the latest election trends in the West.
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152687
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IN SUMMER 2012, a delegation of the Faculty of Global Processes of Moscow State University established cooperation with the London Academy of Diplomacy. The following year, the honorary director of the academy, Professor Joseph Mifsud, took part in the Globalistics 2013 international congress at Moscow University, and, during his stay in the Russian capital, suggested that our faculty join a project to reform Link Campus University in Rome to give it the nature of a genuinely international educational institution.
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152691
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WHAT WAS THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE in the early twentieth century? As a great power it was a rival of other powers - Germany, the UK, France, the North American United States (the USA), and Austria-Hungary. It was not the most developed country industrially and financially; its population was not well educated and was not rich; its elite were no longer close-knit. Its potential, however, was huge; development rates were fast, military might colossal, domestic market vast, cultural and scientific achievements unrivalled, the business circles passionary, and the intelligentsia unselfish, politically active and opposed to the crown.
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152693
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IN PLANNING the setting up of the International Military Tribunal and an international trial of the main Nazi war criminals, the powers of the anti-Hitler coalition were guided by the principles of inevitable liability and punishment for all the Nazi criminals guilty of mass atrocities.
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POST-IMPERIAL and post-Soviet Russia has just started its quest for self-identity. This is neither good nor bad: its new state hypostasis is only twenty-five years old which makes it not an easy task to send "urbi et orbi" a clear and convincing message about its essence and the optimal ways of its realization.
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152684
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THE START of the 21st century can with good reason be considered a landmark in the development of Russian public diplomacy. After the difficult and unpredictable 1990s, the Russian leadership began to pay serious attention to creating a positive international image for Russia.
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MORE THAN 26 YEARS have passed since the reunification of Germany, and this is a good reason to assess how much the country has increased its economic power and raised its status as a European and global political player. Naturally, studies and debates normally focus on the social and economic perceptions of citizens of united Germany, on negative trends, on risks and challenges facing the country's political class and electorate, and on suggested mechanisms for dealing with problems. Analyses of the path traversed by Russian-German relations since Germany again became a single state chiefly have the goals of finding a solution to the crisis that they are in today, salvaging positive experience that has been accumulated and detecting sore points.
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152669
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THE YEAR 2016 was quite fruitful in terms of our country's relations with Asian countries: Russia's policy in this rapidly developing part of the world is bringing substantial dividends, laying the groundwork for expanding mutually beneficial cooperation in the interest of regional stability and overall growth.
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152675
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HOW WILL RUSSIAN-U.S. RELATIONS develop in 2017? So far, from all indications, not according to the best-case scenario. Literally on New Year's Eve, the U.S. introduced further sanctions against Russia, including the eviction of 35 Russian diplomats. In early January, Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham hastily prepared a package of sanctions, which were supposed to strike at "the softest spots": the financial and energy sectors of the Russian economy.
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BY ITS ATTACK at the Soviet Union fascist Germany destroyed the international balance of power. The documents of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the USSR (NKID SSSR) said that "on the strength of circumstances the Soviet Union and England became comrades-in-arms, that is, if not formal then the de facto allies at the time of war."1 On June 22, 1941, the day when Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Foreign Secretary of the UK Anthony Eden said to Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain Ivan Maysky that the declared war had not changed Britain's policies and that it would pour even more efforts into its struggle with Germany.2 On the same day, Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill said in his broadcasted address: "Any man or State who fights against Nazism will have our aid. Any man or State who marches with Hitler is our foe.... That is our policy and that is our declaration. It follows, therefore, that we shall give whatever help we can to Russia and to the Russian people."
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152674
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ONE OF TODAY'S KEY GLOBAL PROBLEMS is a risk of malevolent or hostile political use of information and communication technology (ICT) by some states with consequent threats to international peace and security. This risk has been addressed by the Russian president,1 the leaders of other nations,2 and the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (GGE).
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IN JUNE 2015, which marked the third month of the war in Yemen, the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the situation in this country as a "ticking time bomb" and called on all parties involved to take prompt action as quickly as possible to halt the killings, of which over 50 per cent were civilians. He referred to the military intervention of the Saudi coalition in Yemen. This regional conflict can hardly be called a civil war, because a multitude of foreign actors are involved in it, all of them having interests of their own, which often contradict each other.
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I ARRIVED IN HAVANA three days after Fidel Castro's funeral. The city was returning to its normal life except that on the streets there were numerous pictures of the Comandante.
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