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. Research Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
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14 july 2011
Armenia and Azerbaijan’s shaky status quo
Russia has made a concerted effort since the fall of 2010 to break the stalemate in Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations over the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region.
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7 july 2011
Out of the confusion, conspiracy theories emerge
The past year in global politics offered plenty of fodder for conspiracy theorists.
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5 july 2011
Russia and NATO: time to abandon illusions
Today is the moment for Russia and NATO to end seeing each other through the Cold War prism
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2 july 2011
Inertia and maneuvering in Russia’s foreign policy season
July is a quiet time in international politics, which gives us a chance to tally the results of the most recent season in Russian foreign policy.
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23 june 2011
Twenty years after the Balkan tragedy
On June 25, 1991, Slovenia and Croatia, two republics of the former Yugoslavia, declared independence.
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22 june 2011
When the Dust Settles
The fallout from the turbulent events of the winter and spring of 2011 is gradually subsiding.
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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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Counter-Containment of Unipolarity
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Dayan Jayatilleka -
Key Actors in the Libyan Conflict
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Andrei Chuprygin, Larisa Chuprygina, Valery Matrosov -
10 years of BRICS: What keeps 5 headstrong powers together in times of global disunion
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Fyodor Lukyanov -
Two Sides of the 1968 Legacy
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Sergey Solovyov -
How Cozy Is Russia and China’s Military Relationship?
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Dmitry Trenin
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.
Roaring Twenties again: 'Global impeachment' and the end of the era of liberal globalization
Now that another decade has flown by and the world awaits the arrival of 2020, it is only appropriate to look back at last century's 'Roaring Twenties'. Those twenties started globalization; these could see the end of its era.
How Cozy Is Russia and China’s Military Relationship?
Russia and China’s strategic military cooperation is becoming ever closer. President Putin has announced that Russia is helping China build an early warning system to spot intercontinental ballistic missile launches.
A “Synchronized Downturn” Calls for a “Synchronized Response”
This year’s Annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank in Washington DC revealed a growing preoccupation with the mounting signs of a slowdown in the world economy.
How to Stop NATO
Catherine the Great is credited with saying that the only way to secure the borders of the Russian Empire is to expand them continuously. This logic is to some degree applicable to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which embarked on a path of geographical enlargement quite literally from the very first days of its existence.
The Asian Mirror for the Far East: an Indian Perspective
India and Russia have long shared geopolitical perspectives on the balance of power in Eurasia. In the post-Cold War era both turned their attention to the West. However, over the past decade India has pursued the Look East Policy, seeking to regain its political and economic influence in Southeast Asia and building new strategic partnerships with East Asian powers like Japan and South Korea. Russia’s Turn to the East and India’s move from the Look East to the Act East Policy have created a new framework for closer India–Russia geo-economic and geopolitical relations.
Russian Far East Development from the Korean Perspective
This chapter focuses on analysing Korea’s position on development of this region. To this end, the paper deals with the significance and strategic value of the Russian Far East, the current status, and determinants of the Russian Far East policy, as well as the direction and tasks of Korea’s Russian Far East policy.