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Labour, Lib-Dems and UKIP suffered a crushing defeat, along with the analysts (me included) who had never expected that the Tories would win by a vast majority to knock together a one-party cabinet. For at least a month and a half before the elections, all public opinion polls indicated that the two leading parties were running neck and neck, so to speak with about 33-34 percent of the voters prepared to support either Labour or Tories. The aggregate rating of the smaller parties (slightly less than 70 percent) indicated that they stood a good chance to get a place in the sun.
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139724
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TWELVE MONTHS AGO, the Ukrainian crisis invaded the space of international relations; today, a year later, we know much more about its origins and sponsors and have acquired a much clearer idea about its meaning. Ukraine was destined to become a geopolitical battlefield that to a great extent is shaping the global future.
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International Affairs: Heres our first question, Yuri Konstantinovich: The sanctions regime has presently become one of the most sensitive aspects in the relations between Russia and the West. Do you think that this kind of policy pursued by European nations and the United States has been dealing damage to Russia's economic development?
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139734
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TWO CONSECUTIVE ENLARGEMENTS of NATO - membership for the Central European Three (Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic) in 1991 and the "big bang" of enlargement of March 2004 - made Ukraine, a seat of instability, a borderland between two Europes: the West and Russia. The unresolved dilemma of common spaces of Greater Europe made the planned and realized expansions of Western alliances the crucial point of the relationships between Russia and the West. The West which did not hesitate to push into the post-Soviet space, a zone of Russia's special interests, in two directions (NATO and the EU) merely fanned the smoldering conflict; the color revolutions in Georgia in 2003 and Ukraine in 2004 revealed its depth and systemic nature.
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139732
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FEW PEOPLE would presently question self-importance of a cultural factor in world politics. One could easily agree with the British political scientist A. Hopkins who held that culture has always been impacting global processes, despite the fact that researchers have long been giving preference to politics and the economy over culture when evaluating global phenomena.
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139733
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International Affairs: Mr. Ambassador, the Ukraine crisis shows convincingly that in the absence of wars between the leading states in the world, a special role is beginning to be played by information warfare, i.e., the struggle for the hearts and minds. This, however, does not change the essence. This still is about the striving to promote one's national interests and inflict a defeat on the "adversary." This is nothing new: The Crimean War and World War I were marked by active informational support, if this word can be used to describe direct official propaganda. If in the first case it was necessary to convince domestic public opinion about the necessity of military spending, in the second it was about the need to continue the war no matter how hopeless it seemed in late 1914. What could you tell our readers about the information warfare in the UK on the issue of Ukraine?
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139740
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THE PAST FEW YEARS have seen what, to all intents and purposes, is the revival of sea piracy. Hundreds of incidents in the Gulf of Aden, the Gulf of Guinea, and elsewhere on the high seas, involving attacks on ships from dozens of countries, have again made piracy one of the main threats to international security. That this is a fact is obvious from intensive anti-piracy measures by individual states and by the entire world community. Since 2008, the United Nations Security Council has passed over a dozen resolutions on just one aspect of this problem, piracy off Somalia, which has reached unprecedented proportions.
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139728
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THE WORLD is changing fast; it is changing by leaps and bounds which makes it next to impossible to explain what is going on and to foresee possible repercussions. An unsophisticated observer in the West and elsewhere in the world where Western propaganda is heard and believed might imagine that the forces of freedom and democracy are waging an uncompromising struggle against despotism and tyranny (in the widest sense of the terms). It is implied that the United States and the rest of the civilized West are on the side of the forces of good confronted by an obscure conglomerate of the forces of evil, of which Russia is part if according to President Obama and certain other Western leaders. Former President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has written in his memoirs that according to this interpretation the forces of good insist on democratic elections, human rights, and freedom of trade; America does not hesitate to use its might to defend good and oppose the forces of evil interfering with the fulfillment of these ideals.
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IN THE LAST QUARTER of a century, it has become clear that neither great powers nor small and average states nor even the United States are happy with international chaos. No wonder, there is a (still latent) desire to move to a new international horizon of confidence and predictable behavior of all subjects of international relations. This is hardly surprising since in the last few years the world has been facing the unpredictable United States, the mightiest of international subjects, which has imposed on mankind a choice between a new world order and a worldwide military catastrophe. Is there a force strong enough to offer an alternative to the slipping into an abyss of hopelessness and initiate adequate measures? Which country except Putin's Russia can shoulder the burden? Has the world found itself at the threshold of another Cold War which offers no choice but a third world war?
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139735
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TODAY'S POLAND, or, more accurately, its leadership, in a strange way supports the openly extremist nationalistic regime that took power in Kiev in February 2014 and glorifies the exploits of Ukrainian nationalists during the Second World War. But Stepan Bandera and other leaders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) had their arms up to the elbows in Polish blood. Forgetting this means encouraging modern followers of Bandera to commit similar atrocities. And they have been trying hard as well, for example burning people alive in Odessa, something their predecessors had done in Poland, and not too long ago either.
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THE ISSUE OF PALESTINE is unique, and not only because it is part and parcel of the Middle East conflict and attempts to solve it. The study of the experience of the political institutionalization of the Arab Palestinian territories, of the structuring of Palestinian political processes, of the activities and split of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), and of the record of the international community as the "architect" of modern Palestine makes it possible to evaluate the roles of Palestinian domestic actors and political elites, understand internal and external factors in building new states in the Middle East, and assess the effectiveness of proposed systems of political organization.
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139723
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IN RECENT YEARS, the global situation has experienced powerful shocks that have aggravated existing contradictions, fanned tensions and given rise to various threats. On the one hand, processes of mutual integration of countries remain in place and are, moreover, being speeded up by globalization, and there is a search for an optimum model of international relations based on principles of polycentrism. On the other, effects of the global financial and economic crisis are not subsiding, and in various regions - in Europe (Ukraine), in the Middle East, in Northeast Asia - there exist serious challenges to regional and global security. Time and again, unresolved old-time territorial disputes or consequences of the hegemonic policy of the United States or its allies spark conflicts.
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139737
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Regarding our general priorities, they are classic, as in many other countries. They include providing favorable conditions for the country's national security and economic development, increasing the number of countries friendly toward Armenia, strengthening Armenia's authority and positions on the international arena, deepening its involvement in international processes, putting forward initiatives to formulate an agenda at platforms that are favorable for our country, active participation in international organizations, expanding and deepening cooperation with
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139726
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Back in the 1990s, the SCO was a little-known forum uniting Russia. China, and a number of Central Asian states, which was dealing with the settlement of border issues on the basis of agreements on confidence-building in the military area and the mutual reductions of armed forces in the border area. The SCO Charter has only taken effect in 2003, and all major standing bodies of the Organization were only formed early in 2004.
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139727
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THE TITLE needs a question mark. Indeed, did the Big Three halt a step away from global cooperation? How many mines were laid under the alliance and partnership and when? Natalia Narochnitskaia once said that "Yalta and counter-Yalta were born together."
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139729
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IN THE PRESENT-DAY international situation, security has become a paramount concern. The end of the Cold War era brought about deep changes in global politics, which led to a new quality in the system of international relations. The threat of a global nuclear catastrophe gave way to new challenges, such as international terrorism, religious extremism, organized crime, drug trafficking, and cybercrime.
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THE LEADERSHIP of the Republic of Tajikistan was obliged to make hard decisions during the country's transition to state sovereignty. These decisions brought our country into the world community as a subject of international law and international relations - an historic national goal.
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139722
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Armen Oganesyan, Editor-in-Chief of International Affairs: This year we are observing two notable dates: the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 70th anniversary of the UN. Regarding the first date, everything is clear: The many events timed to coincide with May 9 are being widely promoted. How important is the other date, and how will it be observed?
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