Open Dialogue Research Journal
The member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are actively preparing for the upcoming summit of this organization in Tianjin, China, from August 31 to September 1, 2025. At a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia and China intend to […]
The history of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) began in 1932, when the icebreaking steamer Alexander Sibiryakov was the first in the world to complete all the route from the Barents Sea to Chukotka in one navigation. Dozens of Arctic explorers gave their lives paving the way through the northern […]
The history of The International North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC) goes back to 2000, when in St. Petersburg , at the Second International Eurasian Conference on Transport, an agreement was signed between Russia, Iran, India and Oman with the purpose to develop the transport networks between these countries to increase the […]
This September marks eighty years since the end of World War II and the defeat of the Imperial Japanese Army by the Soviet Union and the liberation of Northeastern China and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula from Japanese occupation. It was decided to divide Korea into North and […]
In October 2024, Kazakhstan voted in a country-wide referendum, at which more than 71 percent of the republic’s citizens supported the idea of the country’s President Kassym Tokayev to build the first Kazakh nuclear power plant since Soviet times in the village of Ulken, on the shore of Lake Balkhash, […]
The results of two rounds of Russian–Ukrainian talks in Istanbul on May 16 and June 2, demonstrated that the initial goals of Kiev and its Western curators to pressure Moscow into an unconditional cease–fire along the line of contact and into the halt of the destruction of military–industrial and energy […]
After a three-year “freeze” of political and diplomatic ties between Moscow and Washington, with the arrival of a new American leader in the White House, President Trump initiated noticeable progress in the search for new approaches to building normal relations with Russia. Speaking recently at a hearing in the U.S. […]
After President Trump’s inauguration on January 20, his most sensational executive order was on the freezing of American foreign aid through the USAID- United States Agency International Development – to foreign countries (except for Israel and Egypt) for 90 days and the further shut down of the Agency and its […]
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched its Special Military Operation in Ukraine, which was perceived in the United States and Western Europe as “Putin’s Russia’s unprovoked aggression against democratic Ukraine.” In December 2021, at the Russian-American summit in Geneva, the-then US President Biden repelled Moscow’s offer to sign an agreement […]
The end of February will mark the fourth year since the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine, which led to numerous casualties and destruction between the two once fraternal peoples. In this regard, a rhetorical question arises: was it possible to avoid a military conflict and resolve interstate […]
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