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In the days when the world remembers the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan, it is important to recall another event from World War II in the Pacific theater and in the US-Japan relations—the 1945 U.S. bombing of civilian neighborhoods in Tokyo.

Environmental policy demands new technologies and significant resources. How Russia is helping its Asian partners in this challenging work. With an almost continuous series of natural disasters and worsening environmental problems caused by climate change, environmental protection is becoming a…

A major international event in disarmament and weapons control is coming soon. At the Fifth Review Conference of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which will be held in the Hague from May 15-19, 2023, countries will sum up the results of another five-year cycle of state compliance. But it can already be argued with certainty that there won’t be any breakthrough that would improve international security. There is far too much distrust between the Convention’s essential parties, Russia and China on the one hand, and the USA, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany on the other. The West will try once again to blame Bashar al-Assad’s government…