Asia

02.11.2026

Vietnam’s Financial Center: Two Cities, Long-Term Capital, and Opportunities for Russia

Vietnam has begun creating an international financial center intended to connect the needs of the country’s fast-growing economy with global capital markets. The project combines …

GEOFOR

31.07.2024

Aleksei Maslov: Russia and China Need to Learn to Understand Each Other

GEOFOR's interlocutor is Aleksey Maslov, Director of the Institute of Asian and African Studies (IAAS) at Moscow State University, a Russian Orientalist, Sinologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences and Professor.

Vasilina Rudakova

14.04.2022

Coup in Pakistan: causes, risks, prospects

Note: this is a machine translation from the original Russian text On April 3, the Parliament of Pakistan was dissolved just moments before a decision was to be taken on a vote of no confidence in the country's Prime Minister Imran Khan. However, such a …

Ivan Andrianov

18.02.2022

Biden leaves Afghanistan without money

Note: this is a machine translation from the original Russian text On February 11, US President Joe Biden signed an order according to which the assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan – about seven billion dollars - will be seized. At the same time, …

Ivan Andrianov

18.01.2022

A queue of Middle Eastern ministers lined up in China (machine translation)

While the West and Russia were sorting out their relations (and Russia was also saving Kazakhstan from the invasion of terrorists), China organized "open days" for guests from the Middle East. During the past week, the foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Turkey, …

Mihail Lavrov

12.01.2022

Japan and Australia have signed a major security agreement (machine translation)

On January 6, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida signed the Mutual Access Agreement (RAA), a defense and security treaty aimed at strengthening the alliance between the two countries. As members of the US-led Quad group (along with India), both …

Ivan Andrianov