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Interview of GuangMing Ribao’s Moscow correspondent Wang Jia Bo with Yan Vaslavskiy recorded at the Rethinking Russia International Conference.
Interview of GuangMing Ribao’s Moscow correspondent Wang Jia Bo with Yan Vaslavskiy recorded at the Rethinking Russia International Conference.
The constant attempts to smear Putin as some kind of kleptomaniac totalitarian are largely laughed at in Russia. While they may make some Western activists feel all warm and gooey inside, they are ultimately futile. In fact, they only serve to intensify a siege mentality in Russia that actually heightens support for Putin.
While the European Union was fighting against “the Russian hybrid war”, the terrorists hit us in “the heart of Europe” – as a slogan at the Brussels Airport, one of the terrorists’ targets, calls the city. Meanwhile the EU political elite in Brussels as well as in many national capitals throughout Europe behaves like Don Quixote.
International Analytical Center Rethinking Russia took part in the 67th convention of the International Studies Association that took place in Atlanta on March 16-18. This year’s event brought together as many as 5,500 researchers from around the world and has become the most representative in the history of the Association. The section on post-Communist states gathered over 200 scholars from the USA, Europe, Russia and other countries.
When Russia’s President Vladimir Putin declared that he was withdrawing the bulk of Russian troops from Syria, he once again – and probably not for the last time – revealed Russia’s flexibility in foreign policies, thereby exerting profound influence on world politics and international relations.
An international conference Rethinking Russia, organized by the Rethinking Russia Think Tank and the Institute of Socio-Economic and Political Studies Foundation (ISEPR), was held in Moscow on March 14. The conference was attended by two dozen Russian and foreign experts in political science, sociology, economics, and law, including ISEPR Director Dmitriy Badovskiy, French statesman Ivan Blot and others. The event grabbed the headlines in mainstream Russian and foreign media.
In a long essay based on a series of interviews to The Atlantic the outgoing president, in fact, dwells on his foreign policy legacy, or “The Obama Doctrine.” To put his ideas in a nutshell, the United States must sustain its hegemony and have others do the dirty work. In fact he presents the policy that we refer to as “managed chaos”
On March 14, 2016, the International Analytical Center Rethinking Russia will hold the Rethinking Russia international conference at the Kempinski Baltschug hotel in Moscow.
The results of a recent opinion poll show without any doubt that the majority of the Russian population supports president Putin because his policy is considered consistent with the desires of the people.
The recent research by the VCIOM polling agency indicates that the percentage of Russians willing to vote for Vladimir Putin at the 2018 upcoming presidential elections has reached its four-year peak.