This emphasis on traditional values has also extended to making it easier for those who want to migrate to Russia. A 2024 presidential decree[18] grants even those who are not proficient in the Russian language or history temporary resident permits. It specifically invites those foreigners who reject “the policies implemented by countries that im

The development has spread far beyond Moscow and St. Petersburg. For instance, the East Asian city of Vladivostok was chosen as the host[4] of the APEC Summit. Two new suspension bridges were built to link the city to outlying areas, and its main university was expanded to accommodate a growing number of foreign students from countries such as Indi

Geopolitics and the obligation to protect European spaces of ‘democratic security’ Ceuta and Melilla have a potentially enormous scope for projecting Europe in the western Mediterranean region. Spanish geopolitics and also European geopolitics should explicitly incorporate the fully democratic spaces and their multicultural populations that the

For a long time Morocco likened the situations of Ceuta and Melilla to the Spanish claim to Gibraltar. Here there is a very important circumstance that it would be in Spain’s interest to explore. The link between the cases of Ceuta and Melilla and Gibraltar is legally inadmissible but inevitable on the stages of international public opinion and i

These populations and minorities live together democratically in accordance with the Spanish constitution and the European treaties concerning integration and human rights. The narratives surrounding Ceuta and Melilla need also to be furnished with the cities’ positive aspects, casting them as pluri-secular centres of multicultural coexistence an