International Security

Legal and Political Aspects of Possible EU Visa Sanctions

A few years ago, Russia and the EU were actively working within the framework of a visa-free dialogue. Unfortunately, in less than 10 years, the visa problem has acquired a fundamentally different character. Now some EU countries are discussing the issue of not canceling, but banning the issuance of Schengen visas to Russian citizens. After…
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Stability is Cracking: Interim Results of the NPT Review Conference

The Tenth NPT Review Conference is still ongoing, and this year the conference is taking place in very specific circumstances and in the context unprecedented tension between the nuclear weapons states since the end of the Cold War. Thus the statements made by the parties during the conference to some extent clarify the shape of…
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The Sanction Future of Russia

Most of the sanctions imposed on Russia will not be lifted even in case of a ceasefire in Ukraine and reaching any agreement. The point of no return to "pre-February normality" was achieved, so there is a need to focus on creating a new future, where sanctions will be a constant variable. Any conflict sooner…
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Temporary Measures: Russia’s MFA on the START Inspections

Russia decided to temporarily  exempt the inspection activities from the facilities subject to inspection under the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START). The Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the message at the website on 8 August. The Ministry infromed the US through diplomatic channels.  The…
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Food and Commodities Crisis is Going to Sharpen

According to the Global Crisis Response Group more and more people are now forecast to be pushed into food insecurity and extreme poverty by the end of 2022. There is an estimate that 345 million people will be acutely food insecure or at a high risk of food insecurity in 82 countries in 2022. Meanwhile,…
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Global Energy Market at the Crossroads

The world is in the grip of a major energy crisis, with countries worldwide affected by extremely high and volatile prices, particularly of fossil fuels. This situation has acted as a crucible for recent trends in the energy market. Over the preceding two years, the energy market experienced extreme price volatility, such as during the…
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The EU Sanctions: mechanism and prospects

Until the EU imposed sanctions on Russia in 2014, few Europeans were aware that the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) entailed the imposition of sanctions. Member States had been enacting sanctions jointly since the early 1980s; in the initial decades, European measures had modest economic consequences, but it has changed. The increasing centrality of…
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Fighting Nuclear Terrorism is Going Successfully

The Tenth NPT Review Conference is ongoing, but apart from the Conference there are various side-events, dedicated to the relevant problems of the sphere.  One of them was the event, jointly organized by the UN Counter-Terrorism Center and the EU, where the parties discussed the problem of nuclear terrorism. During the meeting heads of various…
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New Page in the EU Defence Policy?

The expansion of autonomous European capacities in the field of defense and security has been discussed in the EU for several years. The topic became even more relevant after February 24. Experts of the Carnegie Europe analytical center tried to answer the question of how serious the EU's intentions are in the field of building…
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IMF: Why We Must Resist Geoeconomic Fragmentation—And How?

According to a team of experts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the world economy is going through the most serious shock since the Second World War. Geo-economic fragmentation is seen as an undesirable outcome of the current crisis. In the report, IMF experts explain how and why the world should avoid such a scenario.…
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