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Here’s how the new year will test Russia’s resilience and the global order

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions during a news conference on the performance of Russian diplomacy in 2024

The process of lifting sanctions will be slow, and the legal mechanisms of unilateral US sanctions against Syria may remain in force for years and decades, despite political changes

The Great Balancing Act: Greater Eurasia’s path to stability

The developments in Russia and the world, especially with the nuclear threat growing evermore present

The influence of the foreign policy activities of Algerian and Tunisian leaders on the system ofregional relations in the Maghreb

Despite the crisis of multilateral diplomacy, preserving its supporting structures seems necessary

In the coming years, the Greater Eurasian space will most likely continue to balance between the natural desire for joint development of its states, on the one hand, and the consequences of the influence that disintegration processes on a global scale have on them, on the other

The EU’s coercive measures no longer act as an alternative to secondary sanctions

The crisis in Lebanon represents an additional challenge for the Middle East

Eurasia is inextricably linked with the main processes affecting the globe

On December 20, 2024, within the framework of the XIX Conference of Arabists “Readings by I. M. Smilyanskaya” at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOS RAS), the 4th meeting of the section “The Long 20th Century in the History of Arab Countries” was held