Year: 2019

China Is Making It to Europe from the South

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Roman Kot Despite the fact that the European Union remains one of the largest economic powers in the world, politically, European states failed to develop a single entity that would allow them to respond collectively to external or internal challenges. As a result, the EU is forced to step back and focus on one of two global powers: China or the United States. Traditionally, the established cooperation with the United States, especially within the framework of NATO, for a long time allowed Europe, under security umbrella, to care about the economy, not the army. At the same time, the…

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“BINTEL” Geopolitical Analytics Journal, Issue 1, 2019

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This Year’s First Issue of the “BINTEL” Geopolitical Analytics Journal This year’s first issue of the “BINTEL” Geopolitical Analytics Journal is traditionally opened by the material by President of the “Borysfen Intel” Centre Victor Hvozd. The article is entitled “The New Multipolar World and Ukraine”. The author summed up the results of political events, the beginning of which dates back to 1980–1990. This means the “Cold War” between the Western and Eastern blocs, which, according to the author, was considered a kind of prolongation of the Second World War and could in fact have turned into…

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“There Is No Uncontrolled Space in Geopolitics”

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President of the “Borysfen Intel” Centre Victor Hvozd at the “Radio NV” Studio   Victor Hvozd, President of the “Borysfen Intel” Center for Geopolitical Studies, at the end of the week was invited to the studio of “Radio NV”, where he answered questions about current events, in particular, about the role of intelligence agencies in ensuring security of the state. The host of the program especially wanted to hear V. Hvozd’s opinion on the personnel changes in the leadership of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence in such a difficult time for our people and whether he considers it necessary to make public the state’s problems, when it is defending…

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Afghanistan Is at the Cusp of Great Changes

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The History of Revolutions, Treachery, Civil War and Terror   Vadym Volokhov The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is located at a crossroads between the East and the West and since ancient times has been the center of trade and migration. The advantageous geopolitical location — between South and Central Asia, on the one hand, and the Middle East on the other, allows it to play an important role in economic, political and cultural relations of the countries of the region. Through the territory of Afghanistan there went ancient trade routes from the Mediterranean and Caspian seas and the countries of Central Asia to the Indian Ocean coast.…

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Five Years of the Annexation of the Crimea

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Consequences for the World, Russia and Ukraine   Victor Hvozd March 18, 2014, an agreement was signed in the Kremlin on the “accession” of the Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia, which became the official date of their annexation. Since then, every anniversary of this event has traditionally attracted attention to the Crimean problem in Ukraine, Russia, and throughout the world. As it should have been expected, in March 2019, the world’s reaction to this issue was very wide, and in covering it, media emphasized the so-called five-year jubilee of the Russian annexation of the Peninsula. For example, the problem of Russia’s annexation of the Crimea was…

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