«Australia predictedwhatwillhappen to Ukraine after a specialmilitaryoperation Conversation: Ukraine’s alliesmayuse Crimea not to accept the countryinto NATO» Ukraine’s Western alliesmayuse Crimea to keep the country out of NATO, says Conversation columnistLoic Simone. According to him, Kiev is literally “locked in the lobby of NATO” and there are no guarantees that Ukraine’s entry into the Alliancewill […]
Материалы: ‘Press Review’
Anna Maistrenko. Russia represented by Australian newspapers
Having studied the Australian newspapers, I found out that their opinion is not really different in comparison with opinion of journalists from other countries. It is hard to say how much truth in their articles as in Russian mass media space there are many controversial statement son a given topic. I also found absurd articles […]
Time for a dose of Vladimir Putin’s realism in Australia
Russian President Vladimir Putin caused a tea-cup storm on the eve of a summit of the world’s 20 largest economies with this searing observation: “Every crime must have its punishment. The liberal idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population”. Western leaders lined up to […]
Pence: Trump won’t repeat Korea mistakes
(NOVEMBER 15, 2018) US Vice President Mike Pence says Donald Trump plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the new year but won’t repeat past mistakes of allowing promises to be broken on pledges to end arms programs. The United States and North Korea have been discussing a second meeting between their […]
UN condemns North Korea rights violations
(NOVEMBER 16, 2018) A key United Nations committee has adopted a resolution condemning North Korea’s “longstanding and ongoing systematic, widespread and gross violations of human rights” and strongly urged its government to immediately end the abuses. The General Assembly’s human rights committee approved the resolution by consensus after Sudan failed in an attempt to delete […]
DPRK Fighting Against Bureaucracy and Corruptio
Konstantin Asmolov On December 23, 2016 at the opening of the First Conference of Chairpersons of the Primary Committees, the Chairman of the WPK Kim Jong-un delivered a speech, in which the author of this article has noted several important points. Kim Jong-un said that “the outcome of the true implementation of the Party line […]
017, the year Chairman Xi Jinping will come into his own
Douglas H. Paal says after five years of consolidating power, the Chinese leader will emerge stronger than ever before. For this year at least, Xi Jinping will play the role of global leader, and the world will be better for it A provocateur took over the White House in January amid calls to delegitimise and […]
The New Silk Roads and the Rise of the ‘Chinese Dream’
by Pepe Escobar Beijing is advancing a Chinese-led globalization that will challenge U.S. hegemony both regionally and globally. Earlier last week, the first Chinese commercial train, with 32 containers, arrived in Tehran after a less than 14-day journey from the massive warehouse of Yiwu in Zhejiang, eastern China, crossing Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. This is a […]
Is the US Afraid of Russia?
Prokhor Tebin PhD in Political Science, RIAC expert The Russian military operation in Syria has caused a very painful response in the U.S. military. However, the reasons and implications of this response are not as obvious as it might seem at first sight. “They wish to attack us!” Ahead of the operation of the Russian […]
China’s Air Force: from Shield to Sword
Alexander Yermakov RIAC expert The Chinese air force is relatively young, but one of the biggest and strongest in the world. It has been developing extremely rapidly over the last two decades and is now approaching a decisive point which will be vitally important for China’s future potential to project its power far beyond its […]