Russia in Global Affairs

In fact, the U.S. president is unlikely to much affect Russia-U.S. relations, and Moscow should not care who exactly the U.S. elects as president.

Moscow joined the NATO’s Partnership for Peace program 30 years ago, but today there is neither partnership nor peace.

When he first took office, the Russian president was trying to integrate with the West, now the whole ball game has changed.

Russia should embark upon a grand reconversion and reconfiguration which begins with a retrieval of its own history and identity. Retrieval does not mean a return to that identity; it means reclaiming it and returning it to its rightful place in one’s overall identity, writes Dayan Jayatilleka.

As America behaves, so Russia feels justified in pursuing like-minded behavior aligned to its own security interests, that the West has routinely rejected or simply ignored.

The gathering storm over Ukraine is potentially the most dangerous crisis in Europe since the end of the Cold War.  A large scale Russian military attack on Ukraine would cause enormous civilian and military casualties, overturn prior assumptions about the rules-based international order, and risk escalation to wider conventional, or even nuclear, war.

The mainstream media describes the current clash between the collective West and Russia as a battle of good against evil; however, as it often happens in real life, good can effortlessly transform into evil and vice versa under the right circumstances.

On January 27, 2022, Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, took part in an American-Russian online conversation, titled “Can War In Ukraine Be Avoided?”. The webinar was organized by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

The Russian president is a "calculated player" and "very much aware about all dangers," says Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine. On February 3, 2022, he took part in “Conflict Zone” TV program by DW.com.