Under the conditions of crisis geopolitics, the logic of asymmetric, multidirectional actions and counteractions is rapidly gaining momentum, exacerbating the demarcation acuteness of conceptual and political tasks and evaluative positions of Western-centric analytics, focusing, through the prism of the Ukrainian crisis, on the axial lines of rivalry/confrontation between the United States – Russia, the United States – China, Europe – Russia, on the acute conflict divisions in the Middle East.

The article analyzes how NATO pursues its line of deterrence and defense against Russia and how the implementation of NATO’s new Strategic Concept (2022) affects European and Russian security. 

The inability to fit the current conflict in Ukraine into the paradigm of war and peace familiar to European and Russian history is explained not only by the erosion of semantic boundaries between these two states, but also by the increasing blurriness of the familiar contours of the war itself. All aspects of military planning and the fighting itself were subordinated to the goal of defeating the enemy’s army in such a battle. Today everything goes in a different way.

The article shows the evolution of approaches to expanding the zones of American influence and the practice of applying models to create regimes loyal to Washington. The doctrine of “State Building 1.0” was focused on the strict subordination of Caribbean polities, “State Building 2.0” camouflages the previous goals of domination by the concepts of liberalism and democracy. Building a vassal state in Ukraine is a special operation that the US is unlikely to abandon. 

The United States is to some extent restructuring its Middle East policy, in which the hydrocarbon component is becoming a shadow of the military political one. Recognizing the importance of the region, Washington sees the main task in preventing the predominant influence of China there, while countering Russia and Iran also remain on the agenda, but the attitude towards the problem of the Arab-Israeli settlement and the fight against extremists is becoming reflexive.

The article reveals the current trends in the evolution of the foreign policy strategies of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the dynamics of which are determined by both subjective and objective factors, and determines their place in the emerging new world order.

Based on the results of sociological research and statistical data on Russian regions, the authors consider it necessary to clarify the approaches to the problem of structural violence in the changing social space and substantiate the relevance of the study of regional spatial development in connection with the scale of structural violence.

The revolution in Portugal (1974) became a bright event in the European history of the second half of the twentieth century. The profascist regime on the continent, which had existed for almost half a century, was overthrown. The article analyzes the causes and consequences of the revolution, examines the factors that caused the collapse of the Armed forces Movement, which became the driving force of the uprising.

The genocide of the multinational Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War should not be forgotten, since forgetting the events of the Second World War leads to a distortion of the historical truth about the role of the USSR in the victory over fascism. Modern trials on newly discovered facts and events in Donbas confirm the timeliness of the “No Statute of Limitations” project.

The conference was attended by more than 300 scientists from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and China, who presented 184 reports. An important attribute of the international status of the conference was the participation of an IAEA official. The reports of the conference were devoted to topical issues of nuclear power.