Abstract In its Eurasian diplomacy toward Russia and China, India has preferred to engage these states bilaterally through the Brazil–Russia–India–China–South Africa (BRICS) Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) multilateral alignments. By contrast, views Russia–India–China (RIC) triangle as a less effective mechanism. However, despite ongoing militarized crisis with China in spring/summer of...

while the relations of iran and russia with the central asian states have been analyzed separately in previous studies, the regional foreign policies of these two countries have not been compared in detail. as a result, it would be difficult to comprehend the extent of the similarities and differences inherent in the foreign policy behaviors of these two key players in the central asian region....

This study examines the news selection practices followed by news organizations through investigating the news posted on social networking sites and, in particular, the Facebook pages of four foreign Arabic language TV stations: The Iranian Al-Alam TV, Russia Today, Deutsche Welle, and BBC. A total of 15,589 news stories are analyzed in order to examine the prominence of references to countries...

This text was already posted on the TREAT-NMD website. Neuromuscular disorders represent a growing area of interest in Iran, a vast country with a population of 77 million characterized by its great ethnic variety and high consanguinity rate. The second Iranian congress of neuromuscular disorders and electrodiagnosis was held during 4-8 July 2012 in Tehran and was supported by the Iranian Neuro...

russian-iranian relations was in the shadow of the iranian nuclear challenge in the ahmadinejad era. investigating in the bilatral relations of iran and russia indicates that these relationships have been mainly influenced by russian interests and desires and not the common interests of the two countries. by adopting a pragmatic approach based on a strategic opportunism in the framework its mac...

Q. J. Ye, 2, ∗ M. Hartmann, † Y. Maeda, S. Barsov, M. Büscher, D. Chiladze, 5 S. Dymov, 7 A. Dzyuba, H. Gao, R. Gebel, V. Hejny, A. Kacharava, I. Keshelashvili, Yu. T. Kiselev, A. Khoukaz, V. P. Koptev, ‡ P. Kulessa, A. Kulikov, B. Lorentz, T. Mersmann, S. Merzliakov, 7 S. Mikirtytchiants, 4 M. Nekipelov, H. Ohm, E. Ya. Paryev, A. Polyanskiy, V. Serdyuk, 7 H. J. Stein, H. Ströher, S. Trusov, 14...