Valery Kulikov

The Taliban’s (a movement banned in the Russian FederationDahJTkfw first political steps are being watched with particular attention by the international community to determine the direction of further contacts and relations with the new Afghan authorities. Several previous claims against the Taliban have created a bad reputation of this movement that still dominates…

In the wake of the unfortunate end of the era of US military intervention in Central Asia, closing the chapter with the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, countries in the region have already begun the process of reassessing their ties with the former leading players of the region, and have started to build new schemes of common interaction in the interests of strengthening…

Uzbekistan has always been of interest to the United States because it is a “key state” bordering all countries in the region as Zbigniew Brzezinski put it in his book “The Grand Chessboard.” With the beginning of the “war on terror” in 2001, the USA leased a military base in Karshi Khanabad in Uzbekistan. However, relations between Tashkent and Washington…

One of the most severe and visible consequences of the crisis in Afghanistan has been the influx of Afghan refugees seeking to flee the country because of the chaos resulting from Western actions in the country. Refugees don’t have many choices. Air communication with the outside world has been severed, so the main wave of migrants…

As is well known, under the agreements reached at the Forum of the Libyan Political Dialogue in Tunisia, the first presidential election in the history of Libya will be held on December 24, 2021. However, so far, the development of the situation has followed a pattern similar to that of Afghanistan. There are many groups vying for influence, not necessarily ethnically based…

The shameful events in Afghanistan in recent weeks have led to a dramatic loss of credibility for the US and NATO in the minds of the Western public. The earlier criticism of the Atlantic Alliance’s policies and actions has now increased enormously and has become the most widespread meme in the publications of various…

The war in Yemen, now in its sixth year, remains an important element of the broader Middle East conflict, in particular the confrontation between Iran with the Shiite “Axis of Resistance” and the Saudi coalition, which is indirectly supported by the United States and Israel. This conflict has already created the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. According to the UN…

In the face of yet another blatant collapse of US foreign policy (this time following the comfortable entry into Kabul of the Taliban (banned in the Russian FederationDahJTkfwDahJTkfw, not only around the world, but in the US itself, there was an active search for someone to blame. As Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on…

Nearly 20 years after the Taliban (a movement banned in the Russian FederationDahJTkfw were expelled by the Americans who wanted to punish it for harboring al-Qaeda (terrorist organization, aslo banned in RussiaDahJTkfw, the movement’s commanders pose for cameramen in the presidential palace of Afghanistan and in front of the imposing former CIA…

On December 24, 2021 Libya will hold general presidential and parliamentary elections.  These elections may do a great deal to restoring the authority of the Libyan state, which has been weakened by the tensions that persist despite the attempts to minimize the impact of the conflict, already several years old, between the country’s two main political powers. But both…

The US has finally admitted that “American credibility” in the world is bulging at the seams. And it’s not just its political credibility. This fall began not with Biden or Trump but with the flawed perception by the current US political-military establishment of its alleged exceptionalism and dominance in the world. Despite the policy pursued by the US authorities to pressurize and force…

With the coronavirus pandemic, “vaccine diplomacy” has become a significant factor in international life. Before the coronavirus pandemic, the tools of diplomacy were mostly lucrative loans, customs concessions, scientific and cultural exchanges. Yet now, vaccines have been added to these tools…