Russia in Global Affairs

Vaccines have become a foreign-policy soft power tool of coercion and domination, and also a way to achieve economic gains and capitalize on new opportunities.

The coronavirus pandemic has shown that different groups, communities, countries, and civilizations determine the balance between freedom and security differently, drawing different red lines. They are difficult to define and they are poorly rationalized, but crossing them can dramatically destabilize the political situation, provoke a social explosion, and create or deepen a cultural split.

The main objective of the next stage of international politics is to prevent any savage behaviour as rules and institutions crumble and it becomes every country for itself. This is hardly a very uplifting mission, but it is what the past thirty years amounted to.

On 26 May, the Russian House in Brussels, together with the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the journal “Russia in Global Affairs”, and the Russian International Affairs Council, held the third International Expert Forum “European Meridian, XXI”. 

On 26 May, the Russian House in Brussels, together with the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the journal “Russia in Global Affairs”, and the Russian International Affairs Council, held the third International Expert Forum «European Meridian, XXI». The discussion titled “Post-pandemic.

On 26 May, the Russian House in Brussels, together with the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the journal “Russia in Global Affairs”, and the Russian International Affairs Council, will hold the Expert Forum "European Meridian, XXI". The discussion titled “Post-pandemic. The digitalisation of social relations and international social initiatives” will be moderated by Fyodor LUKYANOV. Watch the live broadcast at 15:30 Moscow time.

The world will enter a period of struggle not for “new rules” but for military-political, economic, and moral-cultural footholds to be used for establishing these rules (if and when).

On January 15, at 14:15 (Moscow time), a discussion of the Gaidar Forum will be held on improving, strengthening and increasing the effectiveness of integration institutions in order to counter the pandemic and preserve the achievements of integration became acute, featuring, among others, Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs.

This year’s last issue of our journal writing about world politics looks like the summing up of what has just begun, with no one knowing when or how it will all end, but everyone wanting to see the end of the chapter.