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The April issue of the MEMO Journal (No. 4, 2023) has been prepared. It opens with an article by A. Torkunov and D. Streltsov devoted to an analysis of Russia's policy of turning to the East.

The central place in the issue is taken by materials on security issues in the modern world and on economics.

The articles on security deal with such topics as the escalation risks of multisphere operations (K. Bogdanov); the transformation of U.S. missile defense policy in the context of providing protection against hypersonic weapons (A. Chekov); the genesis of the "exit strategy" concept through the transformation of the world order (I. Tretyakov). The economic block of the issue covers a wide range of topics - the prospects for internationalization of the ruble under modern conditions (A. Polivach); the response of sovereign funds to macroeconomic shocks in 2022 (I. Strelets and S. Chebanov); features of Islamic capital markets (A. Nagimova); estimates of cross-border carbon regulation in China (Xueqing Chen).

Readers may also be interested in materials on the consequences for cultural diplomacy of "cancellation" policy of Russia (U. Artamonova, L. Rustamova); on the role of think tanks in Turkish-Russian relations during their crisis of 2015-2016 (A. Chagry); on the diaspora factor in the context of the panArmenian identity model (O. Sarkisyan, N. Dunamalyan).

The issue also includes the end of the materials of the roundtable discussion "Indo-Pacific Region: Between 'Friendship' and 'Unfriendliness'".