By Erkin Feyyaz Eşli Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an agreement on the accession of a number of former Ukrainian regions to Russia: the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. The signatures came as a result of referendums in these regions, in which the overwhelming majority of residents said “Yes” ...
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is breaking new ground every day, developing constantly towards becoming an important player in the world, which many expect to become a multipolar one in the near future. The organization was formed in 2001, and included Russia, China and 4 Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. India and Pakistan joined in 2017. There are ...
By Utku Reyhan The Samarkand summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was held on September 15-16. The summit came at an eventful time, with Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, the grain, fertilizer and energy crisis, the Taiwan provocation, an attempted coup in Kazakhstan, the US defeat in Afghanistan, Greece’s harassment in the Aegean and the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict. Among the ...
By Işıkgün Akfırat, Vladivostok, Russia The Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia’s easternmost city, witnessed China-Russia-India unity. Speaking at the Presidential Session, Li Zhanshu, second leader of the People’s Republic of China’s after the President Xi Jinping, said that Asian countries would lead humanity out of the current challenges. The 7th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), which took place in Russia’s ...
By Işıkgün Akfırat, Vladivostok, Russia Russia’s easternmost port city of Vladivostok has been the host for the Eastern Economic Forum September 5-8. In his speech at the forum, Russian President Putin said that “the world has recently undergone irreversible tectonic shifts”, and that “We have to treat all countries as equals”. Russia’s easternmost port city of Vladivostok has been the ...
Second part of the text based on the speech of the author to a debate held in the Valdai Club on June 30th, 2022, with the participation of Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Club, Konstantin Bogomolov, Director, Artistic Director of the Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya, Andrey Fursenko, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation and former Minister of ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * After Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, many opinions were expressed about what China could and should do in response. Last week, we reviewed some actions that readers sent me as a conclusion to their own reflections. Many of them were of a confrontational and catastrophic nature, assuming the need for a reply by China that ...
On August 5, Turkish and Russian Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin held talks in Sochi. The talks focused on trade and economic cooperation between the two countries, the “grain deal” to unblock grain exports from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, energy cooperation, and the situation in Syria and Libya. The Turkish president, welcoming his Russian colleague, “underlined the importance ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * The visit of the Speaker of the United States’ House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and the provocation to China that this entails, can only be interpreted as one more step in the escalation of tensions that Washington wants to generate in the world in order to maintain its global hegemony. The visit pursued two objectives: ...
The Turkish and Russian presidents are going to held a meeting in the city of Sochi on August 5. This will be their second meeting in a short time, after having gathered in the Astana Summit in Tehran recently. Following that summit, Türkiye’s president Erdoğan had stated that Russian president Putin “had a number of interesting proposals”. Both countries are ...