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The two leading countries in South Asia, India and Pakistan, are both approaching the main event in their state calendar, namely their upcoming general elections. And Pakistan has finally set a (provisional) date for its election, which is scheduled to take place in the last week of January 2024. These upcoming parliamentary elections have a special significance for a number of reasons, first of which is the tense domestic political situation in both countries, the almost hostile relations between the two countries, and the fact that both have nuclear weapons…

On September 25, 2023, the visit of Vyacheslav Volodin, the Speaker of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to Mongolia, was concluded. In its content, Mr. Volodin’s visit to Mongolia was similar to the recent visit of the Speaker of the Mongolian Parliament, Gombojav Zandanshatar, to Russia, and marked the logical development and completion of those endeavors that had been outlined by the two Speakers back in Moscow. In addition to meeting with his Mongolian counterpart…

Until recently, for both the Russian public and the Russian expert community, Eritrea, a small country in the Horn of Africa, was one of the least known states in the world, and its mention in the media was in itself seen as a remarkable event. However, since March 2022, there has been an unprecedented increase in bilateral contacts between Moscow and Asmara. The two countries have exchanged three high-level diplomatic and ministerial visits in the past year and a half, including a visit to Moscow by Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh in April 2022, and a return visit to Asmara…