The Ukrainian crisis has led toasituation where the voice ofthe Eastern European countries and, inparticular, Poland, isbeginning todetermine European foreign policy interests. This state ofaffairs isunique inmodern history, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Andrey Sushentsov.

The West has torecognise that Russia has alegitimate interest inthe security ofits borders and that any further expansion ofthe membership ofNATO cannot just beseen asaprivate matter for NATO member states and candidate countries seeking tojoin. Russia, for its part, must accept that the dissolutio

The NATO war inUkraine against Russia has been prolonged and intensified, asincreasing hostilities. Ifweunderstand violence asthe acceleration oftime, the longer the conflict lasts, the greater its consequences willbe, writes Valdai Club expert Boris Perius Zabolotsky.

Inasituation where the European international order has found itself insuch amassive crisis that radical military solutions have become possible, the most natural solution may indeed beGermany acquiring its own nuclear weapons. Itdoes not matter atall that this arsenal will officially becalled “Eur

The French President was joined on Tuesday by nine other nations looking to champion carbon-free nuclear power by the year 2030.... Emmanuel Macron told a gathering of business leaders he aims to" reindustrialise" the French economy with a ￡25. 5billion( €30billion) investment package.... The energy alliance has penned an open letter to the European Commission, pleading the case for nuclear power as an" affordable, stable and independent" source of energy. The letter was signed by the leaders

Since September 2020, anew stage ofRussian policy begins inrelation toits formerly most important neighbour and still the most significant foreign economic partner. Russia nolonger believes that Europe iscapable ofplaying the role ofanindependent and somewhat reliable partner ininternational affair

The issue ofpublic trust inthe government and vaccine developers isbecoming the key tosuccessfully overcoming the pandemic. The use ofadministrative levers toincrease the rate ofvaccination raises the issue ofhuman and civil rights observance with regard tothe agenda, writes Valdai Club Programme D

What istelling about what ishappening now intransatlantic relations isthat agreat power, inrelations with its weak allies, inevitably faces the challenge ofits own egoism, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev. Inthe event that weagree now with the most obvious origin ofthe terror

The EU-Russia relations have returned tohostility and, accordingly, all ties that are not really offundamental importance for theEU countries are being curtailed. However, sofar this isonly areaction tothe fact that Russia’s behaviour may deprive aunited Europe ofavery important potential source of

Russian Railways pays particular attention tothe diversification oftransit routes and the creation ofnew transport corridors. For example, inthe Central Asia region, inaddition toKazakhstan, Uzbekistan isbeginning toplay anincreasingly significant role inthe development ofEuro-Asian transit.