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Tension around the Korean Peninsula is one of the main threats to international security. North Korea’s acquisition of nuclear and missile weapon systems has become a new serious factor in global strategic stability. Previously, during the cold war era, the only tool of control over strategic weapons was the relationship between Moscow and Washington. At present, the international situation has radically changed. New nuclear powers – India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea – regardless of whether or not the original five members of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) acknowledge them as such, are not under the control of either Washington or Moscow or Beijing, acting at their own discretion, as they see fit.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF INTERVIEWS “No Positive Changes in Washington’s Policy Toward Russia”Sergey Ryabkov WORLD ISSUES Russian-Chinese Relations: A New Historical Stage of DevelopmentI. Morgulov The U.S. in Afghanistan: From Military-Political Euphoria to the Dilemma of Troop WithdrawalM. Konarovsky Can North Korean Nuclear Missile Crisis Be Resolved? (Read this article online for FREE)G. Ivashentsov Islamic Maximalism and Minimalism: […]

The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is the key issue at the talks on Brexit. An absence of Ireland’s only land border is its most amazing feature. The winding and twisting border of nearly 499 km long is not marked by pillars or barriers; there is no barbed wire or checkpoints. After the 2016 referendum on the withdrawal of Great Britain from the EU, the border issue moved to the fore in the relations between the UK and Ireland. When the UK leaves the European Union, the counties on both sides of the twisting border will become the frontier of the EU which will increase, at least theoretically, the possibility of political and economic crises and deeper conflicts in both countries.

CONTENTS A History of Ups and Downs: The 140th Anniversary of the Establishment of Russian-Bulgarian Diplomatic RelationsSergey Lavrov EDITOR-IN-CHIEF INTERVIEWS “Expanding Our Country’s Circle of Friends Has Been Our Main Goal”Eleonora Mitrofanova WORLD ISSUES NATO’s Military Activity in the North AtlanticYu. Belobrov The EU in Search of ItselfV. Chernega Germany and China: From Cooperation to […]

Today’s international political competition is largely about states and political groups trying to undermine one another’s prestige, and they far from always use peaceful means in doing so. The arsenals that are used in such struggles include false flags – attacks, sometimes causing heavy casualties, that are falsely blamed on their adversaries by those who carry them out.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF INTERVIEWS “Such Negative Relations Between Washington and Moscow Are Unacceptable”L. Slutsky “The U.S. Wants Syria to Become Its Global Policy Tool”Walid Muallem WORLD ISSUES A New Helsinki Process: Pros and ConsV. Petrovsky July 2018 NATO Summit: “Technical” Decisions and “Strategic Ambiguity”D. Danilov NATO and the OSCE: Partners or Rivals?Yu. Belobrov The German Social Democratic […]

THE NINTH CONFERENCE OF AMBASSADORS AND PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES OF RUSSIA “Our People Want Russia To Be a Strong, Independent and Peaceful State”Vladimir Putin On the Sidelines of the Conference THE SECOND EURASIAN WOMEN’S FORUM “We Women Are an Increasingly Significant Motive Force of the Historical Process”Valentina Matviyenko EDITOR-IN-CHIEF INTERVIEWS “It Is Becoming Harder to Trust […]

Armen Oganesyan, Editor-in-Chief, International Affairs: Sergey Alekseyevich, at the Helsinki summit, President Donald Trump repeatedly spoke about his desire to get along with Russia. Are there any actual signals that this intention could be acted upon in the near future? S. Ryabkov: We certainly welcome this mood, which the U.S. president has reaffirmed more than […]

“Common Threats and A Common Enemy Enabled Countries With Opposing Social and Economic Systems to Join Their Efforts for the Sake of a Victory”S. Lavrov WORLD ISSUES The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Results, Challenges, ProspectsM. Ulyanov, M. Lysenko The Rise or Fall of America’s World HegemonyK. Dolgov Drugs in Afghanistan: The Situation Is Getting WorseN. Plotnikov […]

IT HAS BEEN over a year since President Donald Trump announced on June 1, 2017, that the United States was withdrawing from the United Nations Paris Agreement on climate change. He thereby put an end to the suspense that had lasted right from the U.S. presidential election and was on a par with a good […]