Two views on power and security from Arkady Dubnov What makes the country truly safe-the laws or a feeling of "his" around? Israel, where police officers do not cause fear, and people with weapons on the streets seem to be defenders, and Russia, where power is perceived as a “stranger” - two worlds, two understandings of life.

Freezing on foreign policy fronts, collective West and global south Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" Russian foreign policy, if it is briefly formulated, is now trying to solve the five main problems: Provide the foreign policy cover of hostilities. To ensure a course to create an alliance of the territories opposing the collective West and the states of the so -called global south, to impose it on the neoanticolonial agenda and, if possible, become the leader of this alliance.

As it became known from sources in the Russian Foreign Ministry, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas allegedly postponed his trip to Russia because he intends to first “enlist the support of Turkey and the understanding of the US authorities.” And only after that meet with Putin. – I’ll be honest, I don’t have complete confidence in the reliability of this information. But even if there were no such leaks, I would simply note that neither Abbas nor Moscow are interested in these meetings now.

Is the peace agreement between Baku and Yerevan real and what does Russia have to do with it? December 2020. Nagorno -Karabakh after the cessation of hostilities. AP / TASS Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev began his war with Armenia in September 2020 and achieved almost all its goals in 44 days. The Armenians fought alone, no one helped them, neither Russia nor the CSTO, and they lost this war. Ukraine was lucky more (...), almost the whole West was on its side.

OPINION Collective security disorganization. On Yerevan CSTO summit failure and its causes 29 November 2022 Arkady Dubnov Journalist, Political scientist, Expert on Central Asia The summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Yerevan, Armenia, ended ingloriously: the host country refused to sign the final declaration, ostensibly because the allies “failed to give a clear political assessment of the Azerbaijani aggression”.

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