Kin Phea, Director General of the International Relations Institute of the Royal Academy of Cambodia, spoke in an interview for RIAC about the prospects for Russian-Cambodian relations and developing cooperation on international platforms. The interview was prepared on the margins of the Gorchakov Fund Conference “Asian Dialogue 2024”

It is now most promising for Russia in Asia to focus on dialogue with individual countries in the region, taking into account the interests of each of them and its own. But strengthening relations at the country level is a matter of painstaking work by diplomats and business, of little interest from the point of view of public policy and the media, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev

German defense company doubles profits selling to Ukraine useless weapons.

Will Israel succeed in dragging Washington into a Middle Eastern regional war? With the latest assassinations, it is trying hard. Netanyahu is trying to set the Middle East ablaze - but the American superpower is the one who has been supplying him with the fuel for the fire and ironically is also the one who now does want to see a fire out of control.

More Ukrainians believe corruption is a greater hindrance to development than the war.

As one of the premier multipolar leaders, China is particularly disliked in the US-led power pole. Its unprecedented economic might and influence are seen as "dangerous", as it cannot be exploited (or at least controlled) by the political West.