16/11/2014
If Ukraine is to be a cohesive, peaceful, prosperous country, the pro-Europeans and the pro-Russians will need to cooperate together and learn the art of compromise Russian President Vladimir Putin.Photograph: Darko Vojinovic/AP If the G20 is to operate as an effective organisation, its membership must learn to behave with civility to each other. How Australia’s […]
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The current partnership between Russia and China is far from temporary. By Ankit Panda If you haven’t already read it, Gilbert Rozman has an incisive essay over at Foreign Affairs that explains why the contemporary iteration of close bilateral ties between Russia and China is here to stay. Rozman argues that we’re not about to see a rehash […]
16/11/2014
On the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and the Great Patriotic War Russia has never had anything to do with the rest of Europe … the story requires it another thought, another formula. (AS. Pushkin) APIR Center announces an essay contest on the theme: “The Second World War and the Great Patriotic […]
27/10/2014
In August, we posted one very interesting article on our website headlined ‘It is necessary to pay more attention to Russia’s return to the Asia-Pacific region. Lee Paen, the author of the article is a functionary in the political department of the Hainan’s branch of the General Hospital of the People’s Liberational Army in the […]
27/10/2014
The development of the situation in Ukraine, especially in the southeast parts where practically civil war takes place, does not leave anyone ignorant. This war happened to be not in disquieted Africa, not in the Middle East, but in civilized Europe. At the same time, both the leading Western and the Russian media have their […]
27/10/2014
The West blames Vladimir Putin for the crisis in Ukraine. According to the analyst Turmud Haier, the question is whether the West should consider the Russia’s interests instead of boasting of its own ideals and values. The main principle of regulating international conflicts consists in prevention of the tension increase and the useless escalation. It […]
27/10/2014
Australia’s draconian new national security laws fundamentally threaten our open society. Coalition backbenchers must listen to the community where the attorney general will not The Australian government paraded its new national security laws through the Senate last week, enthusiastically heralding a new era for the security state. They did so with help from the Labor […]
27/10/2014
By Greg Shtraks Exactly a decade ago, on October 14, 2004, Vladimir Putin travelled to Beijing to sign an agreement that would cement the final demarcation of the Sino-Russia border. It was a resolution that took forty years of heated negotiations and a substantial sacrifice on the part of the Russian government, with the Kremlin […]
27/10/2014
Someone should tell Tony Abbott that gaffes aren’t like baby turtles; you don’t increase their chances of slipping by watchful predators by producing more of them. It certainly seems like he’s trying to increase his output. Not even a whole day has passed since his reality-shunning collection of mouth sounds “Coal is good for humanity” […]
14/10/2014
At all times the West had to deal with Russia which, regardless of how it was called — the empire, the USSR or the Russian Federation, always provoked the western powers to aggressive actions against it subsequently to win the victories. It means that the Russian foreign and domestic policy for several hundred years was directed on that by subtle provocations to compel these or those western powers, or their […]