AS WE enter the new year, it is worth taking a glance in the rearview mirror. The events and processes of the past year do not simply come to a halt when its calendar’s final page is torn off. Reflecting on the core developments of recent months is meaningful and valuable in attempting to understand the prospects, limitations, and opportunities of the coming period.
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As China has become a global economic and political pole, political stability and effective state governance have come to be seen as key sources of Chinese success, alongside comparative economic advantages and favorable external conditions.
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Russian-American relations are in a turbulent period marked by unpredictable turns. After three years of brinkmanship in hybrid warfare mode, the first signals have emerged that suggest that our countries may be able to at least partially overcome the severe crisis that began more than a decade ago and peaked under the Joe Biden administration
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By the end of the 19th century, Russian literature had gained world-leading status. The process of its conquest was connected in particular with the political realities generated by Russia’s defeat in the Crimean War (1853-1856), the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 (as a result of which the role of the ideal Other in French cultural consciousness shifted from Germany to Russia), and the formation of the Entente in the lead-up to World War I.
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THE indirect power confrontation between Russia and the collective West has been ongoing for nearly three years. It cannot be ruled out that, in one form or another, it will continue indefinitely, which is unsurprising – the current anti-Russian aggression is yet another stage in a comprehensive pressure campaign against Moscow by Euro-Atlantic political elites.
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