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In 2015, Russia began air strikes in Syria to support Assad's struggling troops. [23] Tajikistan: Member of the CSTO Uzbekistan: Military cooperation of Russia and Uzbekistan are regulated primarily by the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation of May 30, 1992. [24] Vietnam: In 2021, Russia and Vietnam signed a military-technical deal. [25]
In rhetoric, Vietnam officially remains one of the world's last communist countries – the communist hammer-and-sickle flag can still be seen – but it has embraced a "socialist-oriented market economy" along with Asian and Western investment over the past two decades.
Vietnam has stepped up its efforts to attract foreign capital from the West and regularize relations with the world financial system. In the 1990s, following the lifting of the US veto on multilateral loans to the country, Vietnam became a member of the World Bank , the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Asian Development Bank .
Vietnam’s Ambassador to Russia Dang Minh Koi told the Vietnam News Agency that the state visit will strengthen Hanoi-Moscow ties, and be “an opportunity for the leaders of the two countries to ...
Putin's public relations blitz has been helped by the fact that Vietnam, unlike North Korea, has friendly relations with the United States and its allies, said Zachary Abuza, a professor at the U ...
In international affairs, Putin had made increasingly critical public statements regarding the foreign policy of the United States and other Western countries. In February 2007, at the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy, he criticized what he called the United States' monopolistic dominance in global relations, and claimed that the United States displayed an "almost unconstrained ...
In March 2022, Russia placed South Korea on its unfriendly countries list during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [14] In June 2024, as part of a Russian state visit to North Korea, the two countries signed a mutual defense pact. [15] Following this, South Korea stated it would consider supplying Ukraine with military equipment. [16]
Vietnam, which officially pursues a neutral foreign policy in its relations with major world powers, has abstained from condemning Russia's attack on Ukraine, a position that Western countries ...