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IMEMO, Interfax to hold expert meeting titled Russia in the Global Agenda of 46th U.S. President
The fourth expert meeting of the joint project of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) and Interfax titled Russia and the World: A Professional Conversation will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 20.
The meeting s topic is Russia in the Global Agenda of 46th U.S. President.
This will be an online event.
The list of the meeting s participants includes: Kissinger Associates Managing Director, Yale University s Jackson Institute Senior Fellow Thomas Graham, Moscow Carnegie Center Director Dmitri Trenin, Russian International Affairs Council General Director Andrei Kortunov, and head of IMEMO Center for North American Studies Viktoriya Zhuravleva.
Syrian regime lowers army readiness to pre-2012 levels
A checkpoint of the Syrian regime forces at the entrance to Damascus city (Reuters)
On 10 January 2020, Bashar al-Assad, head of the Syrian regime and commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces, issued a circular ordering a rollback of army mobilization to regular status, that is to pre-2012 levels.
Combat readiness was scaled down in all departments of the Syrian military; reduced from 66 to 33 percent in administrative departments, and from 80 to 50 percent in their affiliated military units.
Readiness within the Ground Forces and the Navy was reduced from 100 to 80 percent. In military hospitals, however, readiness continues unchanged, maintained at 80 percent.
The changing relationships
The writer is Dean Social Sciences at Garrison University Lahore and tweets @Dr M Ali Ehsan
From time to time all relationships need review, repair and recalibration. Whether personal or inter-state, relationships must adjust, adapt and evolve in the light of changing realities. The Indo-Pak relations are very important as any twists and turns in these relations affect the lives of 1.6 billion people constituting about 21% of the global population. And when the populations of China, Russia, Bangladesh, Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asian states are added, it becomes a whopping 46% of the world population. These people must not suffer just because their leadership has failed to take advantage of the emerging opportunities to turn around their lives.