Left Review Online July 10, 2025
Editor's Note: The 17th BRICS Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from Sunday to Monday, resulting in a joint declaration signed by member countries. Entitled "Strengthening Global South Cooperation for More Inclusive and Sustainable Governance," the document seals the group's commitment to strengthening multilateralism, defending international...More
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Russia from May 7 to 10 and attend the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation, a Chinese foreign...More
More than ten years ago I wrote a book. It was a book about daily life of an ordinary family in a socialist society. I was born and grew up in the USSR and emigrated at the time of the destruction of our socialist country. Having lived for...More
China's Special Representative on Eurasian Affairs Li Hui is currently engaged in a second round of shuttle mediation between Russia, Ukraine and other European countries in an effort to build consensus on a political resolution for the Ukraine crisis, which demonstrates China's sense of responsibility in the region,...More
A simultaneous war with China and Russia is a strategic nightmare that sober American strategists such as Henry Kissinger have been warning the US to avoid at all costs, and it is also a topic that some US media outlets have become more and more fond of talking...More
The one-year anniversary of the unsolved Nord Stream explosions on September 26 is a timely occasion to reflect on one of the largest acts of sabotage in history and the broader geopolitical tensions within which it took place. Several underwater blasts destroyed most of the Nord Stream I...More
The crisis of the liberal model of running the world was inevitable. I warned of its results and alarming challenges that would fill the new century twenty years ago. My book “Globalization and the Destiny of Humankind” which was published at the time has been translated into many...More
Today, as the military operation in Ukraine goes on, it is becoming increasingly evident that the ideological basis of the present Ukrainian government is extreme nationalism, or rather, overt Neo-Nazism. It is the continuation of the pro-Fascist Bandera movement which took the side of Hitler’s Germany during its...More
The special military operation of the Russian army in Ukraine makes us think about the socio-cultural aftermath of this event that may influence Russian foreign policy and its geopolitical role in the world. Some experts say Russia will inevitably turn into a more "Asian" country as Europe almost...More
There is a war in Ukraine. Outwardly, it looks like an armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. All political forces, including Left, have spoken out about these events. The range of assessments: from humanistic-emotional (“people are dying, stop the war”) to purely class (“The West is pushing two...More
Russia has strong capacity and resilience to withstand US and EU sanctions, as its economy - which has been buffering the impact of sanctions for years - is not outward-looking, and it has been diversifying its energy exports from Europe, a process that won't encounter difficulties amid global...More
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed two decrees recognizing "the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR)" and "the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)" as independent and sovereign states. Ukraine decided to recall its charge d'affairs in Russia and will reconsider its diplomatic relations with Russia. The sudden change in the...More
Moscow, (PL). Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, about cooperation in the fight against Covid-19 and the supply of vaccines, the Kremlin revealed on Friday. During the conversation, occurred on Thursday, the two leaders talked about several current issues of cooperation,...More
Russia is set to join a military exercise with China in the Qingtongxia Joint Tactical Training Base in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region from August 9 to 13. According to Senior Colonel Wu Qian, spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense, the theme of this upcoming military...More
Moscow. The Russian Foreign Ministry has denounced the US blockade against Cuba as an example of human rights violations committed by Washington, the website of this ministry posted on Saturday. According to its report, the US keeps on seriously violating human rights both in the country and abroad,...More