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“Ukraine Is a Geopolitical Center Where Many Interests Cross…”

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Victor Hvozd in the “Military Cabinet” of the studio of the Black Sea TV and Radio Company   The President of the “Borysfen Intel” Center, Victor Hvozd, invited to the “Military Cabinet” program of the Black Sea TV and Radio Company, was answering the host Oleksandr Yankovskyi‘s questions on the important (and not only today) for Ukraine theme — the professional activity of its intelligence agencies. As an experienced professional in the intelligence, who in his time managed to lead two intelligence agencies of independent Ukraine — the Military Intelligence and the Foreign Intelligence Service — V. Hvozd shared with the audience the vision of the modern process of defense reform and defense policy…

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US Intervention in Venezuela Is Possible Only If There Is a Threat to American Citizens

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Expert of the “Borysfen Intel” Center Kateryna Vakarchuk on the Ukrainian Radio   US military intervention in Venezuela is possible only if there is a threat to American citizens. This is on the Ukrainian Radio in the program “Today. In the Afternoon”, said Associate Professor of the Department of International Relations of the Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology of the Mechnikov National University of Odesa, expert of the “Borysfen Intel” Center Kateryna Vakarchuk. “The military intervention will only be possible if American diplomats are being harmed or there is a threat to US citizens in Venezuela, although most of them have already left. Therefore,…

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The Formation of a New World and the Crisis of Globalization

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Results of the World Economic Forum in Davos   Victor Hvozd Since the beginning of the 2010s, the main trend in the development of the geopolitical situation in the world has been the formation of a new multi-polar model of international relations. Thus, the USA’s sole leadership is being replaced by a new complex and dynamic system with several centers of power of the world and regional level. To date, the main ones are China, the United Europe, Russia, Japan, India, Brazil, South Africa and a number of other countries.…

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New Threats to Central Asia

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Vadym Volokhov In the spring of 2019, we should expect aggravation of the military-political situation on the Tajik-Afghan border, in Tajikistan and in the South-East of Uzbekistan. It is unlikely that the fighting of the ISIS and the Tajik opposition will become large-scale one, since both Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are members of the “Shanghai Cooperation Organization” and of the “Collective Security Treaty Organization”, and the charts of these organizations provide for “strengthening peace, international and regional security, collective defense of independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of member states”. The potential of member countries is relatively higher than that…

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Ensuring the Country’s Security in the Postmodern World

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Peculiarities of the New National Intelligence Strategy of the United States   Victor Hvozd US leadership continues to thoroughly update a set of basic documents relevant to the country’s national security and defense. In general, this is, so to speak, a usual practice of every American administration. However, as we have noted in previous publications, during the  presidency of D. Trump, the content of such documents is fundamentally different if compared with those adopted by the previous US administration in 2013–2014. This first of all concerns the revision of the adversaries and a clearer definition of the threats to the United States, as well as the USA’s efforts to demonstrate…

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