world politics

The year 2023 saw many important events that have influenced the course of world history or will do so in the near future. The year passed under the sign of persistent but ultimately unsuccessful attempts by the collective West to turn against Russia the neutral countries and other states that did not want to follow Washington's hegemony and preferred either to distance themselves from the ongoing confrontation, or to move closer to Russia, or to pragmatically exploit the situation of further decline toward multipolarity by building their own power.