Veniamin Popov

Director of the Center for the Partnership of Civilizations at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Candidate of Historical Sciences

The West sees itself as superior to other civilizations

On June 28, on the last day of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, a demonstrator burned a copy of the Koran outside the Central Mosque in Stockholm. During this demonstration, which the Swedish police allowed to go ahead, a man tore pages out of the Koran, wiped his shoes on them, placed a piece of bacon in the book, and then burned it. About 200 onlookers were present. The Swedish Prime Minister stated that the protest was lawful, but not appropriate. This was not the first time that an incident of this type has triggered discussions on the problems posed by free speech and democracy…

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The degradation of the Western elite is a serious danger to the international world

Recent years have given rise to a great deal of evidence that the current governments of some Western nations have stopped taking into account the fundamental rules of international law and are breaking previously made agreements. Their practices include outright lies and deceit; they do not shy away from passing off black as white and proceed to open acts of plunder and theft. In obvious violation of the well-known Vienna rules on international relations, the Americans are seizing buildings that belong to our diplomatic mission, and the Poles have now followed suit…

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Tunisia’s President Stands Up for His Independence, Defying Western Pressure

Tunisia is a nice little Arab Mediterranean country located in the very north of Africa (I know this well, for I was the Russian ambassador to Tunisia in the late twentieth century). Except for considerable phosphate reserves, there are hardly any minerals. Since gaining its independence in 1956, Tunisia has placed a strong emphasis on luring tourists, building a vast network of hotels of all calibers and capitalizing on its advantageous geographic location, specifically the warm gentle sea. The country’s rulers placed particular emphasis on the development of its education system…

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The West is responsible for the fact that one out of ten people in the world suffer from hunger

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The end of the unipolar world

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The West increasingly isolates itself

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USA: Increasingly polarized

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The world is moving towards Russia. the new world order

A new world order is emerging

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