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The War in Ukraine Points to Major Changes in the Future Structure of Power in the World

The war in Ukraine has been characterised by misinformation almost from the very beginning. The Western media has shown an amazing capacity for selective memory. Accounts of the war almost always commence with the Russian intervention in the Donbass in February 2022. It is as though the events in the preceding seven years never happened, […]

Are We Approaching a Dangerous Line? Or a New World Order?

May and early June 2022 saw the development of an aggravation trend, continuing the course described in a previous article on this topic. On May 25, just one day after US President Joe Biden completed his Asian trip, North Korea fired three ballistic missiles. This was the 17th launch since the beginning of this year. All […]

Libya in the Throes of a Serious Political Crisis

After Mohamed al-Menfi, president of the Libyan Presidential Council, met with UN General Secretary António Guterres, he spoke highly of the work done by the UN’s mission in Libya “to support the people in reaching a peaceful solution to restore security, stability and peace to the country.” However, in reality he was probably just being […]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet visits PRC

In light of the current stage of the “Great Game,” which has already brought humanity to the brink of a nearly global catastrophe, what significance does the week-long trip (outwardly a purely “humanitarian” one) to China at the end of May by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet hold? As it turns out, […]

Does Turkey Intend to Replace the CSTO in Central Asia?

Today there are two large military blocs in the world – NATO and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which, aside from Russia, Belarus, and Armenia, includes Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan as full members. In addition to the members of the CSTO, it includes observer status nations, and Serbia has been such since 2003. On […]

Turkey is Changing its Opinion on the Events in Ukraine

The “collective West” and many NATO countries have finally begun to receive objective information on the goals and results of Russia’s special military operation to denazify Ukraine. Instead of openly Russophobic coverage of these events by representatives of the current military-political elite of the EU and NATO and, above all, the United States, the true […]

Results of Local Elections in South Korea

On June 1, South Korea held local polls and parliamentary by-elections to elect 17 city mayors and provincial governors, 226 lower-level heads of administrative divisions, and 779 provincial and metropolitan council seats, as well as seven parliamentary seats. The elections were extremely important not only for the Democrats, but also for the Conservatives, because they […]

“Democracy Arsenals” in Kiev’s Support: Middle Eastern Perspective

“War not in the name of democracy”, “Will democracy arsenals benefit Ukraine?” these and other similar headlines mirror Middle Eastern views on the situation in Ukraine.  They address a key narrative of the Western world: Ukraine allegedly has become a flashpoint where war “between Western democracy and Russia’s authoritarianism” rages on. This message has hit […]

How Washington is Turning the Pacific into a New Theatre of NATO’s Conflict

In April, at a press conference in Poland, the US Secretary of Defence Austin Lloyd openly declared that the core US objective in the Russia-Ukraine conflict was/is to weaken Russia militarily in ways to make its recovery difficult if not impossible for a long time. Austin said, “we want to see Russia weakened to the degree […]