Annotation of magazine number 1, January, 2020

Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia

Russia and Vietnam: Friendship that has passed through decades

The year 2020 is rich in anniversaries in the history of Russian-Vietnamese relations. One of the most significant is the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. On January 30, 1950, the Soviet Union was one of the first to recognize the young Vietnamese state, thereby laying the foundations of long-term friendship and close cooperation between our countries. We were together during the difficult years of the Vietnamese people's struggle for freedom and independence, repelling foreign aggression, and post-war peace building. The interaction between Moscow and Hanoi has passed the test of time, has hardened and strengthened, has acquired a multifaceted and truly special character.

Keywords: Russia, Vietnam, 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations

Pham Binh Minh, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Vietnam-Russia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership: continuing traditions, confidently looking to the future

70 years ago, on January 30, 1950, the Soviet Union officially established diplomatic relations with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, becoming one of the first States in the world to recognize it. Thus, the USSR demonstrated a high degree of solidarity with the Vietnamese people in their struggle for a just cause. The foundation of these close ties between the two peoples was laid during the trip of President Ho Chi Minh, who three decades before the mentioned date visited Soviet Russia in search of a way to liberate Vietnam from feudal and colonial oppression. Since then, despite the distance separating us, we are spiritually close and, being ardent patriots, we overcome countless difficulties and challenges shoulder to shoulder, forging traditions of special friendship between the two peoples.

Keywords: Vietnam, Russia, 70 years of cooperation, strategic partnership

Mehdi Sanai, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Russia

The most burning issue is the preservation of Iran's independence and power

Iran is ready to negotiate and does not ignore any proposal. In the current conditions, dialogue is possible only when sanctions are lifted. Pressure is not a method of negotiation. One of the parties - the United States - violates the agreement, imposes broad sanctions, and then offers, ignoring the JCPOA, negotiations. Iran stated that if the sanctions are lifted, it is quite possible to continue the dialogue in various formats. Now Iran is a player that is ready to conduct a dialogue, but within the framework of preserving its sovereignty, independence and compliance with the norms of international law.

Keywords: Iran, Russia, cooperation, Ambassador Mehdi Sanai

Dedicated to the memory of Sergei Nikolaevich Kryukov

Keywords: memory of S.N.Kryukov

Yuri Bulatov

The history of the annexation of Bessarabia to Russia. A new reading of the topic - a lesson not for the future?

After the collapse of the USSR, almost every former Soviet republic develops a tendency to revise the history of the "fraternal family of the peoples of the USSR". In Moldova, among other things, the events of the Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812 and the Bucharest Agreement, which provided for the entry of Bessarabia into the Russian Empire, were also rewritten. According to the Moldovan side, the annexation of Bessarabia to Russia in 1812 was qualified as the dismemberment of the state of Moldova and the annexation by Russia of the territory between the Prut and the Dniester. Although at that time such a state did not appear on the world map yet.

Keywords: Russia and Bessarabia, the 200th anniversary of the annexation of Bessarabia to Russia.

YALTA-2019

Greeting from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Greeting of the Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksenov

Georgy Muradov. The Black Sea Geopolitical Challenge

Oleg Stepanov. Greater Eurasia and new contours of continental security

Armen Oganesyan. About the systemic crisis and post-capitalism

Alexander Stoppe. About the current state of the Union State and Union construction in the future

Olga Lebedeva. The main directions of Russian diplomacy in the post-Soviet space

Alexander Bobrov. The role and place of the Post-Soviet Space in the Concepts of Russia's Foreign Policy: history, current state and development prospects

Vladislav Deinego. Actual problems of the Minsk process

Yuri Shevtsov. Modern post-Soviet space: Western and Eastern projects

Elena Halevinskaya. Theoretical and practical problems of integration development in the post-Soviet

Yuri Sayamov. The post-Soviet space in the prism of the interests of the West and the Eastspace

Nikolai Kabanov. The political and economic reality of Latvia - the dilemma of Euro-Atlanticism and post-Sovietism

Eliseo Bertolasi. Donbass as a balance arrow in the balance between the West and Russia

Artem Bobrov. South-East of Ukraine through the prism of transconflict

Arif Asalyoglu. Contribution to the integration of regional organizations established after the collapse of the USSR

Vasily Semenov. On the expediency and possible forms of reintegration in the post-Soviet space

Rostislav Ishchenko. Centrifugal and centripetal forces in the post-Soviet space

Igor Tatarinov. Formation of the Russian-Ukrainian border in the XX - early XXI century: dynamics and main characteristics of border transformations

Dmitry Trofimov. On the question of the formation of the post-Soviet identity of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the late 1990s - 2000s

Andrey Gurba. Russian-Georgian relations: in search of an impulse for development

Mikhail of Russia. Crimea in the Development of Russia: history, politics, diplomacy

Vladimir Simindey. The main historical and political problems in Russian-Baltic relations

Rodion Denisov. History as a tool in the hands of Estonian ex-communists and post-Komsomol members

Olga Semenova. After the USSR: Some Socio-Cultural Trends of Modern Georgia

Zauresh Saktaganova. State-religious relations and the state of religiosity in Kazakhstan in the 1940s - 1970s

Vladimir Nikanorov. The CIS is one of the important mechanisms for the development of cooperation in the post-Soviet space

Igor Halevinsky. On the activities of the Assembly of Peoples of Eurasia

Inna Tarasova. On the information aspect in Youth Policy in the Post-Soviet Space

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