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January, 2022

  • 16 January

    Az inflációt csak lassítani fogja, de közben sokaknak kárt okozhat az élelmiszerárak fixálása

    Piacgazdaságban szokatlan lépést jelentett be Orbán Viktor, pár alapvető élelmiszer árának októberi szinten való rögzítése ráadásul úgy történik, hogy azon mindenki veszít, csak az állam nem. A fogyasztók pedig nagyot nem nyernek vele. Hat alapvető élelmiszer esetében jelentette be az árak október 15-i szinten befagyasztását a miniszterelnök. Orbán Viktor közlése …

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  • 16 January

    «Россия и Запад ведут информационную войну»

    Ждем письменной реакции — так министр иностранных дел Сергей Лавров прокомментировал итоги переговоров в формате Россия—США и Россия—НАТО. По его словам, после получения соответствующих документов в Кремле определят дальнейшую линию поведения в отношении Запада. При этом российская сторона особо отмечает, что по ключевым вопросам понимание так и не было достигнуто. …

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  • 16 January

    ‘Bunların anlaşacağı yok’ mu dersiniz?

    Diplomasi balesi denen sanatın “posturing” denen bir figürü vardır ki, tam tercümesi “etkilemek veya yanlış yönlendirmek amacıyla yapılan davranış” veya daha kestirmeden “yapmacık tavır takınmak” diye çevirebiliriz. Bütün dünya, “ABD ile Rusya Dışişleri Bakan Yardımcıları Cenevre’de bir araya geliyorlar, Üçüncü Dünya Savaşı veya o kadar geniş olmasa da bir Karadeniz …

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  • 16 January

    Jugement de Coblence: la justice internationale, enfin, montre ses dents

    C’est un jour empli d’émotion, de soulagement, mais aussi de colère et de larmes. En condamnant à une peine de perpétuité un tortionnaire syrien, le tribunal allemand de Coblence n’a pas seulement dit le droit. Il envoie aussi un message percutant aux Syriens. C’est la première fois qu’ils voient un …

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  • 16 January

    The U.S. Should Compete With China and Russia—but Wisely

    As the Biden administration prepares to release its National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy, observers are searching for clues on how those reviews will grapple with the framework of “great-power competition” that anchored the previous administration’s high-level policy documents. That framework has achieved substantial bipartisan traction in the intervening …

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  • 16 January

    Russia’s ‘Return’ to Africa Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts

    Over the past several years, international policymakers, primarily in the West, as well as journalists and commentators have frequently called attention to Russia’s renewed interest in expanding its footprint in Africa. These discussions of “Russia’s return” to Africa are usually couched in a fearmongering, manichean framework of competition, ostensibly within …

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  • 16 January

    Afghanistan Can Be an Opening for U.S. Diplomacy With Russia

    On Feb. 15, 1989, Col. Gen. Boris Gromov became the last Soviet commander to leave Afghanistan, crossing the Friendship Bridge into what was then the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Gromov’s departure ended the USSR’s decade-long military occupation of Afghanistan, characterized by some as the country’s version of the Vietnam War. …

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  • 16 January

    The Myths and Realities of European Security in a Post-INF World

    On Feb. 2, the United States formally declared its intention to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, or INF, treaty. The official declaration, which had been signaled by the Trump administration well in advance, set the clock ticking: Unless Russia unexpectedly returns to full and verifiable compliance with the treaty …

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  • 16 January

    NATO Is Focusing on the Wrong Russian Threat in Eastern Europe

    As NATO has focused its attention on Russia’s offensive military capabilities in Eastern Europe, an equally significant and, in practice, more problematic issue has been largely ignored: Russia’s preponderance of “anti-access, area-denial” capabilities in the borderlands between the Baltic and Black Seas. Is NATO focusing on the wrong Russian threat …

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  • 16 January

    Suspected suicide bombers strike in northwest Syria near Turkish border

    At least three people were killed on Thursday in a series of explosions including two suspected suicide bombings in northwest Syria near the Turkish border, witnesses said, in the first such attacks this year. A rescue worker said one civilian was killed after an improvised explosive device went off in …

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