Аннотация: Questions about profitable, effective diplomacy
Questions about profitable, effective diplomacy
If you read Julia Kozak's article "Security in the Arctic is our priority" [interview with Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, commander of the Northern Fleet Joint Strategic Command], won't you be convinced that everything is being done correctly?
Maybe you will feel a sense of pride?
Perhaps, someone will wonder: how much does it cost?
The very practice of protection of sea routes, sea communications-how it is presented, how it looks?
It seems, there is such sea route (routes) - through Bosphorus and Dardanelles (Sea of Marmara) - to the Mediterranean Sea (from the Black Sea), and further - from the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal or through the Strait of Gibraltar?
It seems, and the Sea of Marmara, and the Suez Canal, and the Strait of Gibraltar are in whole or in part controlled by foreign powers? But the Russian ships (both military, and not military) go along these routes without any problem?
Did several countries sign the Montreux Convention (on the status of the black sea Straits) in year of 1936?
Has the Montreux Convention been in force for more than 80 years?
There were times when" prices were reducing", and in public canteens [public dining rooms] even bread with sauerkraut were declared free [off payments]?..
March 14, 2019 07:45
Translation from Russian into English: March 14, 2019 08:12.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Вопросы о выгодной, эффективной дипломатии".