Fyodor Lukyanov is Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and Research Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
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9 june 2011
Epilogue on joint missile defense
This week’s meeting of the NATO-Russia Council draws a line under an interesting and revealing discussion on joint missile defense.
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3 june 2011
Time for reflection
The 2012 guessing game about the future of the so-called tandem of Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin is beginning to dominate the political debate in Russia.
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26 may 2011
Georgia’s risky decision to recognize the Circassian genocide
The Georgian parliament has voted to recognize the 1864 genocide against the Circassian people in the Russian Empire.
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20 may 2011
Europe after Sofitel
It is still unclear whether the sensational story of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's alleged sexual assault of a maid at New York's Sofitel hotel is more of a tragedy or a farce, but it is bound to have repercussions.
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12 may 2011
Pakistan’s vicious circle
Russian-Pakistani relations, historically somewhat frosty, have recently improved.
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6 may 2011
The master of historical byplay
The Euronews TV channel quoted a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars standing in a crowd outside the White House on Monday.
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28 april 2011
CSTO must evolve into military alliance
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon addressed an enlarged meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization’s Permanent Council at its Moscow headquarters on April 22. Analysts view this as an important milestone.
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23 april 2011
Arab spring - after the euphoria has faded
The unrest in the Middle East and North Africa has not stopped, but the feeling of sensational novelty it created in winter is fading.
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7 april 2011
History and uncertain future spark heated debate
Questions of history prompt heated debate and stir powerful emotions in Russia, as in all post-Communist countries.
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31 march 2011
Those peace-loving Germans
(1)The vote in the UN Security Council that sanctioned military intervention in Libya may have serious consequences for European politics.
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27 march 2011
“Vigor, Toughness and Tolerance”
For all the obvious differences between the three presidents of the Russian Federation and despite the upheavals experienced by the country over the 20 years of its existence, the goals that Moscow set for itself during this period have changed much less than one might think. The Kremlin, under each of the presidents, has always sought to restore Russia’s role as a leading player in the international arena.
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27 march 2011
Clouds of the 2000s Overshadow the Legacy of the ‘90s
It makes almost no sense to try to publish an analytical journal on international politics in today’s world that would not be removed from current events, but follow them.
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27 march 2011
Putin, Medvedev split over Libya
The bombing of Libya has already had unexpected consequences: an unprecedented split between Russia’s ruling tandem.
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18 march 2011
In pursuit of common sense
(1)Global politics seems to have been going slightly mad for quite a while now, but the past few months have seen this outbreak rise to critical levels.
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10 march 2011
Vice President Biden’s reconnaissance visit to Moscow
Vice President Joe Biden, the second most senior U.S. politician, and a man deeply involved in the country’s Russia policy, is in Moscow on a two day visit.
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3 march 2011
Yanukovych has boosted Ukraine’s stability – but for how long?
The world’s view of Ukraine has changed dramatically since Viktor Yanukovych was elected president.
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25 february 2011
Learning from Libya and Singapore
The revolutionary fervor that has gripped the Middle East has not yet spread to the relatively stable former Soviet republics of Central Asia.
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22 february 2011
Can we achieve stability without going to war?
If we look at the issue of the Russian-Japanese territorial disput through the prism of global processes, this conflict may also tell us something about the world at large.
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10 february 2011
Russian-Japanese territorial dispute flares up
Our relations are probably at their lowest point since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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27 january 2011
Terrorism’s local roots
International terrorism was at the forefront of global politics in the first decade of this young century. The concept is actually relatively new.
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20 january 2011
East-West democracy in Tunisia
In the coming months, the world will look on as Tunisia embarks on an interesting experiment. Can an Arab country make a smooth transition from authoritarian rule to a more open political system without skidding off into Islamic extremism?
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13 january 2011
Master of intrigue
Lukashenko’s policy is a very precise balancing act. Neither the West nor the East has any confidence in him left.
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8 january 2011
Political responses to economic challenges in the next decade
The world is preparing for the worst in the next decade, and indeed the next few years promise to be rocky.
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30 december 2010
U.S.-Russian alliance cannot be ruled out
The past year and a half has witnessed a transition from deep crisis to a functional U.S.-Russian dialogue, and now both sides need a new forward-looking policy.
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25 december 2010
On the Verge of Change Again
Ten years ago, when the 1990s were coming to an end, many politicians were making plans for the future, trying to predict what the world would be like in 10 years.
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23 december 2010
A troubled year across the former Soviet Union
The outgoing year witnessed a number of shocks in post-Soviet countries.
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23 december 2010
Kremlin's Imperial Ambitions Ended in 2010
In 2010 Russia made a psychological break with its past and its former status as an empire.
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16 december 2010
Arguments against Russia joining NATO
This past year saw a lot of speculation about whether Russia will ultimately join NATO.
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9 december 2010
Lukashenko set for re-election, not surprisingly
Only recently, Lukashenko looked like an unhappy exception in the new Europe, but he sticks out less now. Not because he has changed. No, it is the world around him that has changed.
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2 december 2010
WikiLeaks document dump to undermine Obama’s clout in Moscow
Officials in Russia have shrugged off the latest portion of U.S. diplomatic leaks with their unflattering descriptions of many world leaders.
A new world order: A view from Russia
Since around 2017–2018, the world has been living through a period of progressive erosion, or collapse, of international orders inherited from the past. With the election of Donald Trump and the rapid increase of US containment of Russia and China—which is both a consequence of this gradual erosion and also represents deep internal and international contradictions—this process entered its apogee.
Will US pullout from Syria increase risk of conflict with Russia?
The announcement of the US pullout from Syria was received with caution in Moscow. Besides the security and political challenges it may bring about, the Trump decision could mean the end of a practical, relatively constructive US-Russian approach to conflict at flashpoints.
Keynes Goes Global: Anticipating the Global Slowdown
As the world economy shows mounting signs of deceleration and recessionary fears intensify across global markets, the world community is likely to focus increasingly on how to undertake an effective anti-crisis response.
A Kingdom divided against himself. Special edition
This is a special issue of Russia in Global Affairs, dedicated to this big topic. Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, euphoria over the triumph of liberal ideology, which is “omnipotent because it is true,” has given way to dark pessimism about the future and led to the loss of ideational and moral guidelines.
China: How Fragile Is the Giant?
China is Russia's most important and responsible partner in the international arena. The five years that have passed since the beginning of the fundamental complication of relations between Russia and the West have shown that despite prejudices and lack of trust at the grassroots level, relations between the two countries remain friendly.
Crisis in 21st Century Political Warfare
In order to gain a freer hand in exercising foreign policy and pursuing those objectives, which include practices such as regime change, the US and its allies needed to change the manner in which the rules and boundaries of international relations were conceived and applied.
The Syrian Crisis: A Thorny Path from War to Peace
The second decade of the 21st century began with a string of explosive protests in the Middle East and North Africa, which have destabilized not only the countries that saw violent regime change but the entire region. A way out of the profound systemic crisis is yet to be found.