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Song Young-gil is finished?

The 24-year long political career of the former chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party, Song Young-gil, hangs in the balance after he was arrested over a scandal related to the party’s leadership elections in 2021. NEO has already written about the situation around this person, but it’s worth recalling. A former mayor of Incheon and a five-term MP, Song was considered one of the most pro-Russian politicians in the Republic of Korea and was part of Moon Jae-in’s inner circle, who in 2017 sent him as a special envoy to the Russian Federation. After Moon became a “lame duck,”…

Konstantin Asmolov

Rosatom in Kazakhstan - the referendum, tender and unique advantages

In the second half of 2023, Rosatom’s activities to promote and implement new NPP projects in the Central Asian republics entered an unprecedentedly active phase. At present, such initiatives, which are at different stages of discussion and implementation, are proposed to three of the five countries of the region – Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. But by far the largest of the promising projects in the region is the concept of creating the first nuclear power plant in the leading country in Central Asia in terms of electricity consumption, namely Kazakhstan. This particular project…

Boris Kushhov

The Three-Month-Long War in Gaza Undermined the US Position in the World

The US administration’s de facto backing of Israel’s barbaric bombing of the Gaza Strip is causing international outcry. Notably, some Arab newspapers recently cited a famous quote from former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill: “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.” “The US administration has chosen to provide biased and unlimited support to Israel…

Veniamin Popov

Who Benefits from a Wider War in the Middle East

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Zenebe Kinfu: "African issues are prioritised in the Russian media"

Yuliya Novitskaya

The Palestinian crisis requires the intervention of key global players

Alexandr Svaranc

Taiwan’s Presidential Elections: A Choice between War and Peace

Abbas Hashemite

The Global South is increasingly vocal about its ambitions

Viktor Mikhin

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