Category: Publications

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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To Fight Against Terrorism in a New Way

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Roman Kot The new security realm in the current, multifaceted world keeps generating new threats and challenges, including in the fight against terrorism. This, in turn, obliges relevant special services to constantly modify and change the forms and methods of their work in order to minimize the risk of a terrorist threat. Ukraine in this regard is no exception: on March 5, 2019, Ukrainian President P. Poroshenko approved the new Concept of the Fight Against Terrorism.   What caused the need for change? …The need to revise the principles of the fight against terrorism in Ukraine has been spoken about…

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Latin America. Analytical Review 02/2019

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Kateryna Vakarchuk The Political and Economic Situation in February 2019   How Oil Deposits Excite Democracy In February 2019 the situation in some Latin American countries (especially in Venezuela) was tense. The region largely supports the interim President of Venezuela Juan Guaido. However, a new election has not been appointed, and N. Maduro’s regime is quite “alive”, thanks to the army and all security forces’ loyalty to him. Colombia and Chile have put forward the initiative to create a new regional bloc — PROSUR. The Cuban leadership is determining foreign policy directions, actively meeting with leaders of other countries, in particular Russia and Italy. At this, the world community…

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The Middle East and North Africa. Analytical Review 02/2019

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The Military-Political and Economic Situation in February 2019   Oleksiy Volovych In February 2019, the military-political situation in the Middle East and North Africa was traditionally tense. This time, we offer our readers an analytical review of different international political consultations on the Middle East issues that took place last month, as well as an overview of the events and processes in Syria, Turkey, Israel, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Algeria, although events and processes in other countries of the region were not less important. But then, the Great Middle East is immense, with almost 25 countries.   Political consultations on the Middle East February 13–14, an international…

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The PRC’s Economic Problems

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Reasons and Consequences for the World and Ukraine   Victor Hvozd Despite the growing disagreements between the leading powers of the world in the new multipolar system of international relations, they maintain significant interdependence in the economic sphere. At the same time, they also have a significant impact on the overall economic situation in the world, which is the result of the deepening processes of world globalization. To date, one of the main subjects of such influence is China, which is the second after the United States in the world by its economic potential, and even leaves it behind by a number of indicators. Thus, according to the…

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The United States and Artificial Intelligence

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The United States is actively engaged in technological races with the PRC   Roman Kot The previous publications of the “Borysfen Intel” Center have already mentioned that the United States, China, and other global players believe that artificial intelligence is capable of providing technological, and consequently, economic, political and military leadership in the whole world, or at least, in some of its regions. It should be noted that at the present stage one can see the United States losing leadership in this sphere. Today, the United States is actively engaged in technological races with the PRC. Over the next few years, there will be significant increases in spending…

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The Indian-Pakistani Conflict

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A War Between Nuclear Powers and Its Consequences for the World   Victor Hvozd One of the notable consequences of the formation of a new multipolar world, taking place in recent years, is the actual violation of the whole system of international relations, which was formed after the end of the “Cold War”. In this regard, the most dangerous is the loss of effectiveness of nuclear arms control agreements, concluded between the USA and the USSR, and then — Russia. As we have already pointed out, the reason for that was the obtaining of such weapons by countries that are not…

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Visiting BINTEL — Oleh Bereziuk

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“Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman is interested more than anybody else in the objective investigation of the case of disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi”   Oleh Valeriyovych Bereziuk Social activist, lawyer, human rights activist. Graduated from the Law Faculty of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Head of the NGO “Ukrainian Law Association”. Author of numerous publications on the theory of law, constitutional law. During the last two years Ukraine’s foreign policy activity in the countries of the Middle East has increased significantly. Within the relatively short period of time, President…

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Venezuelan Crisis: Will the USA Choose a Military Solution to the Problem?

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Expert of the “Borysfen Intel” Centre Kateryna Vakarchuk on the Ukrainian Radio   President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro’s decision to block the delivery of humanitarian aid from the EU and US could lead to the part of the army siding with the opposition. This is what on the Ukrainian Radio in the program “Today. Morning” was said by the 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” Centre Kateryna Vakarchuk. “I think that tomorrow everything will begin…

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