Around Russia The results of the year. Kondovo, but successful January 1, 2013 Sergey Karaganov The correspondent of the “daily magazine” talked about Russian foreign policy with the famous international expert Sergei Karaganov . Sergei Alexandrovich, what, in your opinion, were the main trends in Russian foreign policy in the past year? In 2012, Russian foreign policy developed in the spirit of the trend of recent years.

Well!? What did you get silent? Stunned? Frankly, I, too ... We, of course, have long known about them that they are freaks. But it was some more or less, abstract knowledge. Well, yes - small, selfish, cattle, cowardly, vulgar, unwilling and brainless, and also evil and vengeful ... Here is a collective portrait of the current Russian establishment, nurtured by the Putin regime and put forward by him, from the bowels of hell to the very top of Russian public and political life.

Syria, China, United States. Events in these three countries determined the political person of the world in 2012. What is happening there is united by one common feature - a growing feeling of uncertainty and uncertainty in what will happen next. The Syrian Civil War has become the quintessence of modern international politics, the cast of those problems that are characteristic of the global situation.