US ‘rainbow warriors’ vs. Russia and China’s iron unity – which would you join?
Ad campaigns for armies across the world highlight the clash of cultures.
US and British ads encourage LGBT* people and women to join the ranks.
Russian, Belarusian and Chinese adverts stress the importance of teamwork, flexibility and adaptability to changing conditions. The Russian armed forces are portrayed as open, friendly and willing to help one another, with an emphasis on patriotism.
Take a look at how different cultures see military service.
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Ad campaigns for armies across the world highlight the clash of cultures.
US and British ads encourage LGBT* people and women to join the ranks.
Russian, Belarusian and Chinese adverts stress the importance of teamwork, flexibility and adaptability to changing conditions. The Russian armed forces are portrayed as open, friendly and willing to help one another, with an emphasis on patriotism.
Take a look at how different cultures see military service.
*banned in Russia
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Eastern Economic Forum signals Russian ‘strategy of orienting toward the Orient’
The economic development of the Russian Far East “is of immense interest to China, for several reasons,” University of International Business and Economics professor John Gong told Sputnik, commenting on the Eastern Economic Forum, which kicked off in the Russian city of Vladivostok on Tuesday.
Pointing to Russia’s new Asia-focused infrastructure initiatives, from the Northern Sea Route to new energy pipelines heading east, Gong said he expects these multi-billion dollar mega-projects to “contribute immensely to the bilateral economic relationship between China and Russia.”
What’s more, Dr. Gong said, Russia is responding to the continued shift to Asia of the “global economic epicenter,” including China and Southeast Asian nations. “I think we are rapidly entering a multipolar world, and the world is no longer monopolized by the richest club in the world – I’m referring to the G7 club,” Gong summed up.
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The economic development of the Russian Far East “is of immense interest to China, for several reasons,” University of International Business and Economics professor John Gong told Sputnik, commenting on the Eastern Economic Forum, which kicked off in the Russian city of Vladivostok on Tuesday.
“First of all, as a result of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russia has adopted a strategy of orienting to the orient, essentially against the backdrop of massive sanctions against Russia imposed by the Western countries. What it means is that there are lot of investments being made to improve the infrastructure in the Far East to accommodate more trade, more economic interactions with countries in Asia, particularly with China,” Dr. Gong explained.
“Against that backdrop, this conference speaks volumes about how the Russian economy is totally transforming, in my opinion, and further highlighting the importance of this economic forum,” the academic added.
Pointing to Russia’s new Asia-focused infrastructure initiatives, from the Northern Sea Route to new energy pipelines heading east, Gong said he expects these multi-billion dollar mega-projects to “contribute immensely to the bilateral economic relationship between China and Russia.”
What’s more, Dr. Gong said, Russia is responding to the continued shift to Asia of the “global economic epicenter,” including China and Southeast Asian nations. “I think we are rapidly entering a multipolar world, and the world is no longer monopolized by the richest club in the world – I’m referring to the G7 club,” Gong summed up.
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Ukrainian losses: "there are twice as many graves as I saw a year ago"
💬 "There seem to be twice as many graves of killed soldiers as I saw exactly a year ago," said a Polish journalist, who provided the Washington Post newspaper with a video of endless rows of graves in the Ukrainian military cemetery in Kharkov, extending beyond the horizon.
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How does the US use sanctions to try to bring countries to heel?
The US has seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's executive jet in the Dominican Republic, claiming it was bought in violation of Washington’s unilateral sanctions.
Weaponized penalties are a tried and tested US tool to force countries to do their bidding. Here are some other examples:
Magnitsky Act
US Congress adopted the Magnitsky Act in 2012 following the death of Russian auditor Sergei Magnitsky – arrested on charges of tax evasion – in a Moscow prison in 2009. The Act barred Russian officials accused of involvement in Magnitsky's death from entering the US or using its banking system. It was later expanded to punish targeted individuals anywhere in the world with visa and financial sanctions.
Navalny-linked sanctions
The US imposed penalties on Russian individuals over their alleged ties to the death of Alexey Navalny in February 2024. Navalny died while serving a 19-year sentence at a Russian penal colony for fraud and “extremist activities.” The US blamed Navalny’s death on Russia despite an investigation determining he had died of natural causes.
Georgia's foreign agents’ law
Georgia's attempt to shield itself from foreign meddling through NGOs funded from abroad elicited an immediate sanctions response from Washington. After Georgia adopted the foreign agents registry law – which harks after similar legislation in Western countries the US imposed visa restrictions on dozens of Georgian government figures said it would rethink relations with the country.
Venezuelan elections
Washington dipped into its toolbox of sanctions when trying to push through regime change in Venezuela. After President Nicolas Maduro won elections in 2018, the US backed opposition Popular Will party leader and National Assembly speaker Juan Guaido’s claim that he was the country’s legitimate leader. Guaido invoked a clause in the constitution that the speaker takes over if the president is incapacitated or abandons the country – although Maduro had not. When that failed with Washington imposing harsh economic sanctions on Venezuela.
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The US has seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's executive jet in the Dominican Republic, claiming it was bought in violation of Washington’s unilateral sanctions.
Weaponized penalties are a tried and tested US tool to force countries to do their bidding. Here are some other examples:
Magnitsky Act
US Congress adopted the Magnitsky Act in 2012 following the death of Russian auditor Sergei Magnitsky – arrested on charges of tax evasion – in a Moscow prison in 2009. The Act barred Russian officials accused of involvement in Magnitsky's death from entering the US or using its banking system. It was later expanded to punish targeted individuals anywhere in the world with visa and financial sanctions.
Navalny-linked sanctions
The US imposed penalties on Russian individuals over their alleged ties to the death of Alexey Navalny in February 2024. Navalny died while serving a 19-year sentence at a Russian penal colony for fraud and “extremist activities.” The US blamed Navalny’s death on Russia despite an investigation determining he had died of natural causes.
Georgia's foreign agents’ law
Georgia's attempt to shield itself from foreign meddling through NGOs funded from abroad elicited an immediate sanctions response from Washington. After Georgia adopted the foreign agents registry law – which harks after similar legislation in Western countries the US imposed visa restrictions on dozens of Georgian government figures said it would rethink relations with the country.
Venezuelan elections
Washington dipped into its toolbox of sanctions when trying to push through regime change in Venezuela. After President Nicolas Maduro won elections in 2018, the US backed opposition Popular Will party leader and National Assembly speaker Juan Guaido’s claim that he was the country’s legitimate leader. Guaido invoked a clause in the constitution that the speaker takes over if the president is incapacitated or abandons the country – although Maduro had not. When that failed with Washington imposing harsh economic sanctions on Venezuela.
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Vladimir Putin has arrived in Vladivostok to participate in the IX Eastern Economic Forum on September 4-5.
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Eastern Economic Forum: Russia, BRICS breathing new life into spirit of the Non-Aligned Movement - economist
The new force in international politics and economics represented by the growing BRICS bloc is a powerful new take on an old idea dreamt up by one of Southeast Asia’s most celebrated leaders, Rajah Rasiah, executive director of the University of Malaya’s Asia-Europe Institute, told Sputnik, commenting on the Eastern Economic Forum’s role in shoring up ties between the economies of Eurasia.
Russia, “endowed with enormous oil and gas reserves” and “seeking to extend [cooperation projects] beyond India and China to include the ASEAN countries” has tremendous significance and potential to contribute to the infrastructure, trade and investment development environment of the Asia-Pacific region, Rasiah said.
The Eastern Economic Forum kicked off in Vladivostok, Russia on Tuesday, with the platform formally aimed at boosting the economic development of the Russian Far East, and expand cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.
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The new force in international politics and economics represented by the growing BRICS bloc is a powerful new take on an old idea dreamt up by one of Southeast Asia’s most celebrated leaders, Rajah Rasiah, executive director of the University of Malaya’s Asia-Europe Institute, told Sputnik, commenting on the Eastern Economic Forum’s role in shoring up ties between the economies of Eurasia.
“The Eurasian Economic Union has recently started brightly to establish political and economic ties with ASEAN and the APEC, albeit its initiatives do not cross the US-centered partners. This is a good start as it rekindles the initiative Indonesia’s first president – Sukarno, began when organizing the 1955 Bandung Africa-Asia Conference on the Non-Aligned Movement,” Dr. Rasiah recalled.
“The recent visit of Russian officials, including the deputy prime minister, to Malaysia is one example that has triggered interest among some Southeast Asian countries to join the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) group,” the academic said, citing the BRICS, in combination with initiatives at the EEU level vis-à-vis ASEAN, as multilateral tools through which “all countries will have sufficient space to address their interests without any coercion from any one or more superpowers.”
Russia, “endowed with enormous oil and gas reserves” and “seeking to extend [cooperation projects] beyond India and China to include the ASEAN countries” has tremendous significance and potential to contribute to the infrastructure, trade and investment development environment of the Asia-Pacific region, Rasiah said.
The Eastern Economic Forum kicked off in Vladivostok, Russia on Tuesday, with the platform formally aimed at boosting the economic development of the Russian Far East, and expand cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Surprise reshuffle in Ukraine's government: what's known so far
The Kiev regime saw a surprise reshuffle of senior officials on Tuesday evening, with one senior member of the government sacked and at least half a dozen others quitting.
The resignations include:
◻️ Iryna Vereshchuk, deputy prime minister responsible for the so-called 'reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories'.
◻️ Minister of Justice Denys Maliuska
◻️ Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna
◻️ Minister for Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshin
◻️ Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strilets
◻️ Vitaly Koval, the head of the State Property Fund.
◻️ Meanwhile, Rostyslav Shurma was dismissed from his post as the deputy head of Zelensky’s office.
But that’s not all.
◻️ David Arakhamia, head of Zelensky’s Servant of the People parliamentary faction in the Verkhovna Rada, has promised that the government reshuffle could affect up to half of all members of the cabinet of ministers, warning that tomorrow will see “big reset of the government” and the day expected to be a “day of firings, and the day after the day of appointments.”
A final list of those getting the boot is expected to be drawn up at a meeting Wednesday, Arakhamia said.
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The Kiev regime saw a surprise reshuffle of senior officials on Tuesday evening, with one senior member of the government sacked and at least half a dozen others quitting.
The resignations include:
But that’s not all.
A final list of those getting the boot is expected to be drawn up at a meeting Wednesday, Arakhamia said.
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On September 4, the Russian president is scheduled to hold talks with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Chinese Vice President Han Zheng, and Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin on the sidelines of EEF-2024.
The Eastern Economic Forum officially kicked off in Vladivostok, Russia, on Tuesday, with the platform primarily focused on boosting economic development in the Russian Far East and expanding cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Intel’s strategic shakeup could doom Biden’s bid to reshore microchip manufacturing
Intel stock has had a rough year-to-date, plummeting nearly 60% since January and falling off a cliff in early August as investors led by Warren Buffett began a massive selloff which led leading tech stocks to shed nearly $3 trillion in value amid a perfect storm of recession fears, concerns over rising AI-related capital expenditure, and inflation.
The shock stock drop shed light on Intel’s difficulties, with a flurry of reports beginning late last week citing informed sources revealing that the company is in the “most difficult period in its 56-year history,” looking for strategic advice from big banks, and considering a selloff its chip making business.
The news carries grave significance for the US government. Intel isn’t just one of America’s oldest US chipmakers, but “a key national security asset,” as Axios put it, signaling Washington’s ability (or as it happens, inability) to compete with Taiwan, South Korea, China and other chip-making goliaths.
Intel currently has more than two dozen fab and post-fab sites, most of them in Oregon, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Colorado and Ohio, but also in Ireland and Israel. The potential slash in investment threatens to jeopardize the company’s ambitious expansion plans, with capital expenditures expected to drop by $10 billion in 2025.
Intel’s troubles are bad news for the Biden administration specifically, which pumped $8.5 billion into the company’s coffers in March from the 2022 $280 billion CHIPS & Science Act, which includes $39 billion in subsidies for US chip manufacturing, $13 billion for semiconductor research and workforce training, and lucrative tax incentives.
The current administration has made subsidies to microchip manufacturing a key plank in its economic agenda. In addition to civilian uses from computers to vehicles, Intel products are used in an array in military and space applications.
If Intel is reformed and restructured to the point where it loses its chip-manufacturing might, a major plank of the current administration’s economic agenda could go up in smoke, just in time for November’s elections.
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Intel stock has had a rough year-to-date, plummeting nearly 60% since January and falling off a cliff in early August as investors led by Warren Buffett began a massive selloff which led leading tech stocks to shed nearly $3 trillion in value amid a perfect storm of recession fears, concerns over rising AI-related capital expenditure, and inflation.
The shock stock drop shed light on Intel’s difficulties, with a flurry of reports beginning late last week citing informed sources revealing that the company is in the “most difficult period in its 56-year history,” looking for strategic advice from big banks, and considering a selloff its chip making business.
The news carries grave significance for the US government. Intel isn’t just one of America’s oldest US chipmakers, but “a key national security asset,” as Axios put it, signaling Washington’s ability (or as it happens, inability) to compete with Taiwan, South Korea, China and other chip-making goliaths.
Intel currently has more than two dozen fab and post-fab sites, most of them in Oregon, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Colorado and Ohio, but also in Ireland and Israel. The potential slash in investment threatens to jeopardize the company’s ambitious expansion plans, with capital expenditures expected to drop by $10 billion in 2025.
Intel’s troubles are bad news for the Biden administration specifically, which pumped $8.5 billion into the company’s coffers in March from the 2022 $280 billion CHIPS & Science Act, which includes $39 billion in subsidies for US chip manufacturing, $13 billion for semiconductor research and workforce training, and lucrative tax incentives.
The current administration has made subsidies to microchip manufacturing a key plank in its economic agenda. In addition to civilian uses from computers to vehicles, Intel products are used in an array in military and space applications.
If Intel is reformed and restructured to the point where it loses its chip-manufacturing might, a major plank of the current administration’s economic agenda could go up in smoke, just in time for November’s elections.
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The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has suspended Roman Gladky, Chief of Staff of the Unmanned Systems Forces Command
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) will conduct an additional investigation into Gladky, according to the Ukrainian General Staff.
Previously the Ukrainian parliament called for an investigation into Gladky due to his alleged “ties with Russia:” reports surfaced that his wife holds a Russian passport and his daughter has competed in sporting events under the Russian flag.
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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) will conduct an additional investigation into Gladky, according to the Ukrainian General Staff.
Previously the Ukrainian parliament called for an investigation into Gladky due to his alleged “ties with Russia:” reports surfaced that his wife holds a Russian passport and his daughter has competed in sporting events under the Russian flag.
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Surprise-surprise: Trump has a plan to resolve Ukrainian crisis, but he won’t tell anybody
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“But I can't give you those plans because if I give you those plans, I'm not going to be able to use them. They'll be very unsuccessful. You know, part of it's surprise, right?” former President Donald Trump said mysteriously.
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US Justice Department charges senior Hamas leaders over October 7 attack on Israel - court documents
The indictment became the first step toward holding people legally accountable for the attack, the unsealed documents show.
The documents indicate that among the five defendants facing seven charges is Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in late July in an Israeli strike on his residence in Tehran while he was there for Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's inauguration.
Three of the Hamas leaders charged are deceased, according to CNN.
NBC News blasted the indictment claiming it has very little practical meaning.
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The indictment became the first step toward holding people legally accountable for the attack, the unsealed documents show.
The documents indicate that among the five defendants facing seven charges is Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in late July in an Israeli strike on his residence in Tehran while he was there for Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's inauguration.
Three of the Hamas leaders charged are deceased, according to CNN.
NBC News blasted the indictment claiming it has very little practical meaning.
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🇧🇴 Bolivian President to attend BRICS summit in Russia - Bolivian Foreign Minister
Bolivian President Luis Arce has accepted an invitation to attend the BRICS summit in Kazan and confirmed his participation, Bolivian Foreign Minister Celinda Sosa said in an interview with Sputnik.
Bolivia earlier submitted a request to join BRICS. Bolivia is very much interested in joining BRICS, Sosa emphasized.
"Bolivia has a great interest and motivation to be part of BRICS," Sosa said.
The minister said she hopes her country can really count on support for Bolivia to become part of BRICS.
The BRICS summit will be held in the Russian city of Kazan on October 22-24.
BRICS comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.
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Bolivian President Luis Arce has accepted an invitation to attend the BRICS summit in Kazan and confirmed his participation, Bolivian Foreign Minister Celinda Sosa said in an interview with Sputnik.
"Yes, this is true... The presence of our president at the leaders' meeting has been confirmed," the minister said when asked if Arce accepted the invitation.
Bolivia earlier submitted a request to join BRICS. Bolivia is very much interested in joining BRICS, Sosa emphasized.
"Bolivia has a great interest and motivation to be part of BRICS," Sosa said.
The minister said she hopes her country can really count on support for Bolivia to become part of BRICS.
"BRICS is building a very important economic alternative," Sosa highlighted.
The BRICS summit will be held in the Russian city of Kazan on October 22-24.
BRICS comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre quizzed over Kamala Harris' apparent change in accents
The accusation that the Democratic Party candidate was mimicking the stereotypical speech patterns of southern African Americans was brought up by a reporter at Karine Jean-Pierre’s press conference after two campaign events on Monday.
In Detroit, Harris delivered her remarks in a manner that seemed to emulate a southern accent, while just a few hours later in Pittsburgh her tone shifted to resemble more closely that of her usual self—a daughter of professors who grew up in California and Canada.
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The accusation that the Democratic Party candidate was mimicking the stereotypical speech patterns of southern African Americans was brought up by a reporter at Karine Jean-Pierre’s press conference after two campaign events on Monday.
In Detroit, Harris delivered her remarks in a manner that seemed to emulate a southern accent, while just a few hours later in Pittsburgh her tone shifted to resemble more closely that of her usual self—a daughter of professors who grew up in California and Canada.
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Scholz’s pro-war policy faces setback in Eastern Germany elections Parties critical of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s support for the Western-backed Ukraine proxy war against Russia fared well in elections in eastern German states. “The election results…
'Anxiety within Germany about its future': the AfD and new key player BSW take East Germany by storm
Germany’s right-wing party, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) received an unprecedented number of votes this weekend, pushing the party to second place behind the conservative Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) in Saxony with 30.6% of the vote. And in Thuringia, the AfD won its first German regional election by almost 10 points with 32.8% of the vote, according to exit polls.
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“...these two states in the east of Germany, Thuringia and Saxony have been the stronghold of the AfD ever since the AfD came into existence, which was only about 12 years ago. So, the polls were showing that it would do very well and the polls were pretty accurate that they would win in Thuringia and would come a very very close second in Saxony,” said Dr. George Szamuely, a senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute and author joined Sputnik’s Fault Lines.
Germany’s right-wing party, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) received an unprecedented number of votes this weekend, pushing the party to second place behind the conservative Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) in Saxony with 30.6% of the vote. And in Thuringia, the AfD won its first German regional election by almost 10 points with 32.8% of the vote, according to exit polls.
“Immigration is a huge issue, obviously, for the AfD [...] but Sahra’s party, which is a kind of a left-wing populist party, has also taken a very hard line on immigration. It also says, hey, the more people we import, the more it reduces the value of labor. It undercuts wages here. It's a huge burden on the state, and it's an unfair tax on working people. So she takes an anti-immigrant stance more from the left than from the right,” the analyst explained.
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👽 “The truth is out there:” Trump promises to release info on UFO
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“Oh, yeah, sure. I'll do that. I would do that. I'd love to do that. I have to do that,” former President Donald Trump said confidently.
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Russia-ASEAN Business Dialogue highlights cooperation at Eastern Economic Forum
The Russia-ASEAN Business Dialogue was held on the second day of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
Discussions focused on deepening cooperation and exploring new opportunities in the dynamic Asia-Pacific region, which is crucial for Russia's development plans in the Far East and Arctic.
Myanmar's Minister of Hotels and Tourism Thet Thet Khine took part in the discussion, inviting Russian tourists to explore Myanmar and emphasizing the role of tourism in strengthening international ties. She also announced an upcoming event in October for tour operators and media to promote Myanmar's tourism sector.
Direct flights between Russia and Myanmar operating twice weekly were highlighted as a key factor in enhancing accessibility for travelers. The forum continues to underscore Russia's focus on collaboration with the ASEAN amidst the growing importance of the Asia-Pacific region.
The Russia-ASEAN Strategic Partnership has been vibrantly developing for 6 years, encompassing many areas of cooperation since it was upgraded from a Dialogue Partnership in 2018.
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The Russia-ASEAN Business Dialogue was held on the second day of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
Discussions focused on deepening cooperation and exploring new opportunities in the dynamic Asia-Pacific region, which is crucial for Russia's development plans in the Far East and Arctic.
Myanmar's Minister of Hotels and Tourism Thet Thet Khine took part in the discussion, inviting Russian tourists to explore Myanmar and emphasizing the role of tourism in strengthening international ties. She also announced an upcoming event in October for tour operators and media to promote Myanmar's tourism sector.
Direct flights between Russia and Myanmar operating twice weekly were highlighted as a key factor in enhancing accessibility for travelers. The forum continues to underscore Russia's focus on collaboration with the ASEAN amidst the growing importance of the Asia-Pacific region.
The Russia-ASEAN Strategic Partnership has been vibrantly developing for 6 years, encompassing many areas of cooperation since it was upgraded from a Dialogue Partnership in 2018.
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