Temperatures in Russia are increasing at more than double the global average, according to scientists, proving that climate change and extreme weather doesn’t just affect U.S. national security as outlined in Cipher Brief Expert Admiral Jim Stavridis’ overview here. It also affects U.S. allies and adversaries, creating new areas of instability and shifting power dynamics.
One of the main directions of Azerbaijani-Russian relations is mutual trade and comprehensive measures are taken to expand cooperation in this sphere, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Economy Minister Elnur Aliyev has said.
As a consequence of the war, thousands of Ukrainians have no access to clean drinking water. They rely on NGOs for water deliverances, as the pipelines have been tangled up in the seemingly endless fighting on the eastern front.
Russians today are chagrined to learn that they are worse off than Romanians and Turks. Although President Vladimir Putin would like them to think that their country has been the victim of "outside forces" such as declining oil prices, no one has done more to hurt their living standards than he has.
A clamour is growing in the West to ramp up sanctions against Russia, which stands accused of deploying hackers, assassins and other provocateurs abroad, while suppressing dissenters at home.
Russian Parliament is working on a bill intended to end a conflict between government security watchdogs and fisheries that has resulted in unused quota.
Le détournement d’un vol Athènes-Vilnius par le régime biélorusse pour arrêter l’opposant Roman Protassevitch démontre une nouvelle fois la sévérité de la répression contre les opposants, neuf mois après des élections truquées.
Putin has instructed Kremlin officials to draw up a list of “unfriendly countries.” Although the identity of these countries is unconfirmed, media reports suggest the list will be dominated by Russia’s neighbors.
Relations between Russia and Africa are long-standing and have always been characterised by their versatility. They ranged from the humanitarian aid of Tsar Nicholas II to the Ethiopian Empire in its struggle against Italy (late 19th century) to support for the liberation of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe from Portugal.
Drawing perspectives is not an easy task in a pandemic era characterized by a high level of unpredictability. Who could imagine that an unknown virus would make simple traveling between Russia and the EU nearly impossible for a few months, rebuilding to a certain extent a form of iron (health) curtain just thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union?
Depuis le début de ce siècle, Moscou n’a jamais caché ses ambitions en matière agricole. L’un de ses nouveaux paris, surprenant, semble être celui de l’agriculture biologique, sujet devenu stratégique
Russia’s economy continued to rebound from its pandemic-induced recession in the fourth quarter of 2020, easing its contraction as President Vladimir Putin opted against imposing a second national lockdown.
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