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Link for Part 1 - https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco-visionaries/546702-gerard-hooft-consciousness-quantum-physics/  Theoretical and particle physics continues to be mysterious, almost an occult science, and the more you try to figure out our reality, the more confusing and counterintuitive it gets. We talk to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Gerard ‘t Hooft Follow @SophieCo_RT Instagram Sophieco.visionaries Telegram https://t.me/sophiecovisionaries Podcast https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/sophieco-visionaries-1 Sophie Shevardnadze: Professor ‘t Hooft, thank you very much for agreeing to talk to us. Gerard ‘t Hooft: That's my pleasure. SS: We did an interview but we couldn't see each other because it was over the satellite. So I'm very glad that we're able to do this live and in person. Last time, we were speaking about black holes. This time, since we're meeting face to face, I thought I would ask you all the big questions –  GH: Good. SS: – because I don...

Russophobia in the West has long been enabled by once-Soviet immigrants, who needed constant reinforcement of their justification for emigrating: they hated the place they left behind, and embraced the one in which they arrived. Today’s Russians travel and live all over the world, but they remain connected to their homeland. They refuse to “take sides” against Russia, and instead become the targets of Russophobia themselves. For years, émigrés were the main source of the most prevalent anti-Soviet, and then anti-Russian, myths. Emigration from the Soviet Union was one-way. On exit, you were stripped of your Soviet citizenship, and lost all meaningful contact with friends and family that remained behind. Whatever real memories you did have of the place were subject to constant conditioning and adjustment - be it through the recitation of the facts in your own asylum application, or absorption of the stereotypes that already existed in the place where you arrived. The fact that most emig...

India has been a key stakeholder in the development of Iran’s strategic port of Chabahar. A landmark India-Afghanistan-Iran trilateral agreement on Establishment of International Transport and Transit Corridor was signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Tehran in May 2016. Many important steps have since been taken to speed up the development of the port and realise its full potential. However, growing United States (US)-Iran confrontation and imposition of harsh economic sanctions by the US on Iran under its “maximum pressure” policy has adversely affected New Delhi’s desire to convert its commitments into concrete actions on ground. In the light of the emerging debate in Indian academic and media circles about India’s Chabahar dilemma, it is important to analyse India’s advances as well as challenges in implementing the port project. Advancing Cooperation on Chabahar Chabahar is considered to be of great strategic value to India. It not only provides access to Afghanist...

Soviet foreign trade played only a minor role in the Soviet economy. In 1985, for example, exports and imports each accounted for only 4 percent of the Soviet gross national product. The Soviet Union maintained this low level because it could draw upon a large energy and raw material base, and because it historically had pursued a policy of self-sufficiency. Other foreign economic activity included economic aid programs, which primarily benefited the less developed Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) countries of Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam. The Soviet Union conducted the bulk of its foreign economic activities with communist countries, particularly those of Eastern Europe. In 1988 Soviet trade with socialist countries amounted to 62 percent of total Soviet foreign trade. Between 1965 and 1988, trade with the Third World made up a steady 10 to 15 percent of the Soviet Union's foreign trade. Trade with the industrialized West, especially the United States, fluctua...