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Sonika Jha Big data and its management have only grown in compounding terms as far as data integrity and data preservation is concerned. This highlights the power that vests with data as information curation, organization and dissemination is critical to business focused solutions and strategies. Any entity needs …

The issue of the creation of a BRICS reserve currency has taken on particular significance in recent months after President Putin declared that the creation of such a currency was in the process of discussion. This was followed by a series of statements coming from Russia’s legislative branch …

n a recent article, Foreign Affairs – a New York-based journal of international relations, predicted the inevitability of an “economic arms race” between the US and China. This might primarily affect the production of microelectronics, and Washington has already shown its strong desire to use any means available, …

During the September ceremony to receive foreign ambassadors, Russian leader Vladimir Putin offered spiteful goal-setting policy outlines and some aspects of lofty Russia’s economic policy directions for Africa. Most of these directions considered significant have, over these years, featured prominently in all his previous speeches on Russia’s relations …

   Kester Kenn Klomegah The South African Journal of International Affairs, a foreign policy think tank, has released a special researched report on Russia-Africa. According to the report, Russia has signed military-technical agreements with over 20 African countries and has secured lucrative mining and nuclear energy contracts on …

After publicly falling out, Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron have found something they agree on: mounting alarm over unfair competition from the U.S. and the potential need for Europe to hit back, – writes POLITICO. The German chancellor and the French president discussed their joint concerns during nearly three-and-a-half …

Anuj Dhyani More than 10 months have passed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, and the conflict is still ongoing. No one knows when it will end, but today, the conflict is entering a new phase called “the Winter War,” as snow begins to fall alongside …

  “Irregular warfare” is defined by Pentagon as “competition… short of traditional armed conflict” or “all-out war.” A new report finds that Pentagon uses ‘security cooperation’ programs for ‘secret wars,’ recommends that Congress rein them in. U.S. military forces have been engaged in unauthorized hostilities in many more …

Eric Zeusse  Imperialism has always been — and always is — control of foreign governments. This is especially control of those governments’ foreign policies — international trade, military, diplomatic, etc., and not merely (if at all) domestic policies (which always are of far less concern to the rulers in the imperial nation …