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Сергей Караганов

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Guest post: Russia needs the Brics

Financial times
December 6, 2011

I am amazed that the country is still alive and functioning after ten years of revolutionary chaos and turmoil in the 1990s. That came after 70 years of communist dictatorship that cost the country tens of millions of lives in the civil war, Gulag camps, artificial famines, forced collectivisation and so on.

Hotel Europe: Guests and Permanent Partners

Russia in global affairs
December 4, 2011

Today, 21 years later, the results are disheartening. The euphoria of the times of the Paris Charter was gone as sober judgment reasserted itself.

A revolutionary chaos of the new world

Rossiiskaya Gazeta
December 3, 2011

This is, above all, an unprecedentedly swift redistribution of power in the economy, accompanied by an increasing redistribution of power in politics. The Europeans, who would until quite recently preach in arrogant tone, have come to the brink of humbly asking financial assistance from the still communist and rather hard-up Chinese.

The World in More Chaos

Rossiiskaya Gazeta
September 2, 2011

In these circumstances, the question is not “Who will be the next president of Russia?” but rather “Will Russia overcome the inertia of stagnation, which is turning it into a country unable to maneuver and lead amid the chaos in the new, increasingly dangerous (although not directly threatening) world?

The Judgment Century1

Rossiiskaya Gazeta
July 27, 2011

But we, just as the other authors of the program, take no offence. “Remain to praise and slander cool, and do not argue with a fool” – this advice from great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin helps us not to distract from the cause that we undertook to champion.

Look East, Russia

Project Syndicate
July 22, 2011

What makes Project Siberia so efficient is that it benefits everyone. Russia would maintain effective sovereignty over the eastern territories while creating a new platform for development. China, Asia, and the world would get a new resource and food-supply base, easing emerging shortages.

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Western delusions triggered this conflict and Russians will not yield

Financial times
September 15, 2014

The west is without direction and losing sight of moral convictions, writes Sergey Karaganov The Soviet Union’s sunset years hardly felt like an innocent age to those who lived through them, but to recall the hopes and aspirations of that era is to rue the naiveties of those days.

A Long Confrontation

Isvestia
September 4, 2014

Russian-U.S. relations seem to have entered a long period of confrontation. Already in 2012-2013 the parties were in a stalemate of utter irritation with each other, and today the interests of both countries’ elites are definitely in a conflict. It is essential that the confrontation does not degenerate into a direct military clash. First, a look at the United States.

How to avoid second Afganistan.

Vedomosti
July 28, 2014

The Malaysian Boeing crash in Ukraine – a predictable “black swan” regardless of which conflicting party downed the plane – can further worsen the international political crisis around Ukraine, yet it can also act as a spur to a way out.