Brazil has completed the first round of presidential elections, with favorite candidate Lula da Silva from Workers’ Party taking the lead. On October, the second round will take place, with Lula competing solely with incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro. Ahead of the second round, we spoke with representatives of the Workers’ Party about Lula’s expected foreign policy. Our interlocutors were Daniela ...
United World International expert Onur Sinan Güzaltan evaluated Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech and the latest situation in Ukraine in the China Radio International-Türkiye broadcast. You can find the original interview here. According to Moscow, which perceives the geopolitical risks in Ukraine as “vital threat”, there was no choice but to launch a “special military operation”. Pressing the button on ...
On September 30, a military coup took place in Burkina Faso, the second in 2022. As a result, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was overthrown and Captain Ibrahim Traoré replaced him in power. The constitution was suspended, state institutions were dissolved, borders were closed and the army imposed a curfew throughout the country from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Meanwhile, ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin made a speech at the signing ceremony of the agreements on the joining of 4 regions of Ukraine to Russia. United World International expert Mehmet Perinçek evaluated the speech, which echoed around the world, for Sputnik Türkiye. We are publishing the interview in English. Putin’s programmatic speech This is one of Putin’s most crucial speeches. The ...
By Erkin Feyyaz Eşli Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an agreement on the accession of a number of former Ukrainian regions to Russia: the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. The signatures came as a result of referendums in these regions, in which the overwhelming majority of residents said “Yes” ...
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is breaking new ground every day, developing constantly towards becoming an important player in the world, which many expect to become a multipolar one in the near future. The organization was formed in 2001, and included Russia, China and 4 Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. India and Pakistan joined in 2017. There are ...
By Utku Reyhan The Samarkand summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was held on September 15-16. The summit came at an eventful time, with Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, the grain, fertilizer and energy crisis, the Taiwan provocation, an attempted coup in Kazakhstan, the US defeat in Afghanistan, Greece’s harassment in the Aegean and the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict. Among the ...
By Işıkgün Akfırat, Vladivostok, Russia The Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia’s easternmost city, witnessed China-Russia-India unity. Speaking at the Presidential Session, Li Zhanshu, second leader of the People’s Republic of China’s after the President Xi Jinping, said that Asian countries would lead humanity out of the current challenges. The 7th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), which took place in Russia’s ...
By Işıkgün Akfırat, Vladivostok, Russia Russia’s easternmost port city of Vladivostok has been the host for the Eastern Economic Forum September 5-8. In his speech at the forum, Russian President Putin said that “the world has recently undergone irreversible tectonic shifts”, and that “We have to treat all countries as equals”. Russia’s easternmost port city of Vladivostok has been the ...
Second part of the text based on the speech of the author to a debate held in the Valdai Club on June 30th, 2022, with the participation of Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Club, Konstantin Bogomolov, Director, Artistic Director of the Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya, Andrey Fursenko, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation and former Minister of ...