Annotation of magazine number 6, June, 2021

RUSSIAN-AMERICAN SUMMIT IN GENEVA

Joint statement of the Presidents of Russia and the United States on strategic stability

Keywords: Joint statement of the Presidents of Russia and the United States on strategic stability

Oleg Karpovich, Nikita Tretyakov

Who is Mr Biden? A question that still needs an answer after the Geneva summit

The Biden administration has interests of two orders: maintaining the image of the leader of the free world and rivalry with China, coupled with the need to mobilize economic development. Such a two-tier structure can explain the inconsistency of Washington's actions in the international arena, as well as the half-heartedness of the decisions taken.

Keywords: USA, Biden, challenges, politics, China, coronavirus, Trumpism, WHO, UN

Alexander Savoyskiy

The rise and fall of Russian-American relations. Overview of the events of the last decades before Geneva

An alternative to the liberal world order and the degradation of Russian-American relations could well be peaceful economic diplomacy based on international law, parity of relations and mutual respect for national interests.

Keywords: Russia - USA, XXI century, crisis of relations, political results, "Road map", new "reset", economic diplomacy

Aslan Abashidze, Grigory Lukyantsev

Discrimination of the ethnic Russian population in Latvia. International legal analysis

Turning more than one-fourth of the population of Latvia permanently living on its territory into the category of stateless persons, the Latvian authorities have been trying in every way over the past 30 years not to grant them Latvian citizenship. For this purpose, they continue to introduce various legislative restrictions and bureaucratic obstacles.

Keywords: Latvia, the Constitution of Latvia of 1922, the Declaration of Latvia's Accession to the USSR of 1940, the Declaration of Independence of Latvia of 1990, non-citizens, CESCR, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of 1965.

Alexey Lyzhenkov

OSCE in the context of international efforts to counter the financing of terrorism

According to some estimates, in 2020, the world's leading banks paid approximately $ 10.4 billion in fines for their violations in the field of countering money laundering. This amount is about 80% (!) higher than the same indicator for 2019.

Keywords: countering the financing of terrorism, "anti-laundering" standards, cryptocurrency, terrorist groups and their accomplices

Sergey Boyko

Russia's new strategic guidelines in the field of international information security

On April 12, 2021, Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 213 approved the Fundamentals of the State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Field of International Information security. This document reflects Russia's official views on the essence of international information security, the updated definition of which quite clearly formulates the key approaches underlying the formation of the state's position in this area.

Keywords: international information security, ICT, CSTO, ASEAN

Evgeny Leontiev

Sport as an effective means of informational confrontation in the XXI century

Since the beginning of the 2000s, the policy in the field of world sports has been increasingly put forward in the epicenter of the information confrontation between the leading world powers. It was sport that became the sphere in which the cold War reached a critical intensity - with accusations against judges, doping scandals, mutual boycotts.

Keywords: information warfare, cold War, Olympic Games, anti-doping system, World Anti-Doping Agency, RUSADA, Court of Arbitration for Sport

Gleb Ivashentsov

Myanmar Spiral

Will the West succeed in making Myanmar a new rogue state on the model of North Korea? In any case, efforts are being persistently applied to this. The international reaction to the change of power in Myanmar was swift and sharply negative. So, US President Biden highlighted the events in Myanmar in his first major foreign policy speech and warned that the junta would be held accountable.

Keywords: Tatmodo, National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, Union Solidarity and Development Party

Anatoly Kanunnikov

Civil society as a participant in the political process

It became necessary to define common approaches to the role and place of civil society in the modern world, to name the most important institutions expressing its position, to show its structure, to identify the factors that determine the various forms of activity of these institutions in specific historical conditions and the varying degree of their influence on the life of their countries.

Keywords: civil society, non-governmental organizations, political processes, subsidiarity, "third sector", social capital

Yuri Sayamov

Degradation as a sign of the modern world and challenges for Russia

In the 21st year of the XXI century, humanity found itself in a rather deplorable state. The coronavirus pandemic as a new global threat has exacerbated the existing risks and challenges. The economic depression that has engulfed the world, coupled with social problems and the inability of states to effectively protect their citizens, have exposed the systemic crisis of the existing world order.

Keywords: degradation of the modern world, threats to global stability and security, challenges for Russia

Igor Sechin: "Long-term stability of oil supplies is under threat due to lack of investment"

The XXIV St. Petersburg International Economic Forum was rich and productive for PJSC NK Rosneft. The speech of the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin at the Energy Panel "Transformation of World Energy" was the most important event for the oil and gas sector at the SPIEF-2021.

Keywords: PJSC "NK "Rosneft"

Yuri Bulatov

USSR and Great Britain on the eve of the opening of the Second Front: Afghan realities of allied relations

The British also demonstrated hidden rivalry in allied relations in Afghanistan. This manifested itself in the curtailment of the joint supervision established by the intelligence agencies of the USSR and Great Britain over the Indian political intelligence agent Bhagat Ram, embedded in the Abwehr's agents in Afghanistan. He did so much for Soviet intelligence that virtually all of the Abwehr's activities in the region were "under the hood."

Keywords: World War II, USSR, Afghanistan, Germany, Great Britain

Marianna Belenkaya

Life under fire. Memoirs of Ambassador Vasily Kolotushi

On April 22, 2021, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Vasily Kolotusha would have turned 80, although he has a different date of birth in his passport - June 26, 1941. Vasiliy Ivanovich died on July 11, 2020, having never seen his book "Without the Secrecy Stamp, or the Tales of the Old Interpreter" that came out of the printing house. It is impossible to tell about Vasily Kolotush better than he did himself.

Keywords: Vasily Ivanovich Kolotusha, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

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