Petr Konovalov

Situated in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the Republic of Maldives spends about 10 million USD annually on building dams and work to reinforce its shorelines. However, according to the assessment done by the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, and Technology in this state, the country needs to invest up to 9 billion USD to protect its islands from the risk...

On May 11, 2021, in the Chinese city of Xi'an, a meeting was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic Ruslan Kazakbayev and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China Wang Yi. The Foreign Ministers discussed issues of trade and finance, as well as the implementation of joint infrastructure projects. A month earlier...

On May 23, 2021, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Imran Khan stated that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC will have a positive impact not only on Pakistan’s economic growth, but also on how the entire South Asian region develops. Imran Khan praised the speed of the work...

According to the Statistical Office of the Republic of South Africa, the country’s GDP in 2020 shrank by 7%. That is the sharpest drop in South Africa’s economy since WWII. What makes up the South African economy? What triggered such a massive economic downturn in one of the most advanced nations on the African continent? What could help South Africa restore...

On May 12, 2021 in Dar es Salaam, the largest city in the United Republic of Tanzania, on behalf of their respective countries PRC Ambassador to Tanzania Wang Ke and Permanent Secretary of Tanzanian Ministry of Finance and Planning Emmanuel Tutuba signed an agreement on economic and technical cooperation. From the very beginning, since bilateral relations...

On April 28, 2021, President Abdul Hamid and Colonel General Wei Fenghe, member of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and Minister of Defense, met in Dhaka, capital city of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. Representatives of the two states agreed to develop the existing cooperation in the military...

In Pakistan, on April 11, 2021, massive anti-French protests erupted. The call for citizens to take to the streets came from the head of the Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik - a group banned in the Russian Federation - Muslim cleric Allama Saad Rizvi. Subsequently, people went on strike over the fact that Rizvi was arrested on...

On April 14, 2021, White House Chief of Staff Joe Biden said that beginning May 1, the United States will begin withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, and that the last American soldier will leave the country before the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Is this decision timely? Over the past year, the US has been experiencing a number...

Recently, India has been recording the highest number of novel coronavirus cases per day in the world. The crisis in the country with a population of approximately 1.36 billion people has reached catastrophic heights - from 250,000 to 270,000 COVID-19 infections a day. This article will focus on the second wave of the pandemic...

Recently, Australia and New Zealand have been experiencing considerable difficulties in finding a balance in their relations between the PRC and the United States: two antagonists with whom they both need to maintain political and economic ties. China is vigorously using financial leverage on its South Pacific trading partners...

The convergence of the Indian and Pacific Oceans into a single geostrategic space — the Indo-Pacific Region (IPR — and the growing competition between the major regional players — China and India — have encouraged the involvement of new international actors, including Britain, in IPR affairs. After the country's exit from the European Union...

At different times, relations between Russia and China have evolved in different ways, but in recent years they have grown increasingly close, both against the backdrop of growing disagreements with the West and owing to the growing threat of international terrorism. The problem of terrorism is particularly acute in Eurasia, and the fight against it requires uniting the efforts...