Valdai Club

The prerequisites for the resumption of strategic cooperation between Moscow, Pyongyang and Beijing were brewing against the background of the tightening of Washington's policy towards North Korea under the Biden administration, as well as NATO's military deployment in the Indo-Pacific region.

With the November midterm elections to the US Congress and significant losses suffered by the Ukrainian army, Washington continues to use dirty information warfare methods. Clearly, if the Democrats win, the anti-Russian campaign in its various manifestations will only intensify.

Foreign companies that have located the production of medical oxygen in Russia may at any moment find themselves between the “hammer” of Western restrictions and the “anvil” of Russian legislation, which they are required to comply with. Thus, it is important to raise the fundamental question before Washington and Brussels of improving the exemptions to the sanctions regimes so that such “grey” zones do not interfere with the business of American and European companies, and most importantly, do not become a serious obstacle to saving people’s lives.