Материалы: October, 2014

A. Samokhin – Fighting in the triangle Russia – Vietnam – China: who benefits?

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 […]

An Opinion on the Ukrainian Crisis

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 […]

The Imperious Arrogance of the West

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 […]

The Coalition’s national security laws herald a new era in the Australian security state

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 […]

The Kremlin Turns to China

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 […]

Abbott v Putin: Will the G20 turn into a naked wrestling match?

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” […]

The force of Russia is in its seeming weakness

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 […]

The Russian Bear can certainly swim. 

Editor’s Note: Please take a look at previous works from our “Weapons of War” series including the Russia’s Military is Back, Russia’s Navy Rising, the Five Best Weapons of War from the Soviet Union, and The Five Most Powerful Russian Weapons of War in the Sky. At the time of its breakup, the Soviet Union […]

China, Russia and US test the boundaries of international airspace

A resurgent Russia and Chinese efforts to project power further afield draws US response and leads to rise in mid-air encounters A recent spate of dangerous mid-air encounters between American military aircraft and Chinese and Russian planes over the Pacific Ocean are the result of increasingly assertive strategies by both US adversaries to project power […]

Attention authors! Formation Vestnik (Bulletin) #2

October 14, 2014 Information letter. Collection of scientific works APIR Center “Bulletin  number 2” Dear Colleagues, Asia-Pacific International Relation Study Center and Far Eastern State University of Humanities invites you to participate in the preparation of the collection of scientific papers “Bulletin of the Center for the study of international relations in the Asia-Pacific region number […]