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Which steps should be expected from the strategic partnership between Russia and China? What is most concerning for the West in the deepening of relations between Moscow and Beijing? Did the West hear the leitmotif of the joint Russian-Chinese statement made following Xi Jinping’s four-day visit to Moscow for the celebration of the 80^th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War? This and much else was discussed by Doctor in Historical Sciences and Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU Aleksey Maslov in an exclusive interview to New Eastern Outlook.

Amidst the flood of other news and commemorative dates, the centenary of Northern Sakhalin’s liberation from Japanese interventionists has gone almost unnoticed in the media stream. Why is this date significant, and how does the history of early 20th-century international relations remain profoundly relevant today?

Russia’s actions in Ukraine have causes which necessitated its actions. Unbiased observers know what those causes are and why Russia’s special military operation was a necessary consequence.