On June 7, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov held a briefing at Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs devoted to security issues in Baltic region and in the Northern Europe.
On June 7, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov held a briefing at Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs devoted to security issues in Baltic region and in the Northern Europe.
The briefing was moderated by ...
The Baltic Scenarios
The Baltic of today is a most intricate area for Russia-NATO interaction. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, all of them members of the alliance, serve as its frontier zone in direct contact with its Eastern neighbour. Even before ...
On June 19, 2015, the Ukrainian Institute for Strategic Studies hosted presentation of collected works "
The Different Faces of Soft Power: The Baltic States and Eastern Neighborhood between Russia and the EU
" issued by Latvian Institute of International Affairs.
The publication offers a series of German, Latvian, Russian and Ukrainian articles on various aspects of the soft power use by ...
On April 29, 2014 the
Latvian Institute of International Affairs
hosted a seminar on Baltic security sponsored by the
Nuclear Threat Initiative
(NTI) and
European Leadership Network
(ELN). The final session was devoted to relations between Russia and the West against the backdrop of Ukrainian events.
The event was moderated by Andris ...
... ready for this new political and economic environment?
The dire effects of the Eurozone debt crisis have not affected the popularity of the common European currency in countries whose elites aim to climb the pinnacle of Eurointegration. Of course, the Baltic States are at the forefront, since Baltic leaders are eager to gain protection by more affluent Germany and France and delegate anti-crisis measures to Brussels, thereby deferring responsibility for any possible consequences from a fresh package ...
Karmo Tüür is head of the Centre for Baltic and Russian Studies at the University of Tartu in Estonia. He is an acknowledged political scientist with an expertise in Russia and its relations to the Baltic region and the EU. In this short interview, conducted on the sidelines of the international ...
Cooperation between Russia and the Baltic States: Prospects and avenues for cooperation
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Baltic republics charted a course toward integration with the Euro-Atlantic institutions. How did the Baltic States’ accession to NATO affect ...
On May 30, 2012, a club meeting of the Russian International Affairs Council members took place. The discussion on the subject “
Russia and the Baltic countries: steps toward normalization of relations
” was the main topic of the meeting.
In the course of the meeting Academician
A. Chubaryan
, Director of the General History Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and
I. Yurgens
...
Vladislav Inozemtsev – a member of the Presidium of the Russian Council on Foreign Affairs, the Director of the Center for Post-Industrial Studies, and editor-in-chief of the journal Svobodnaya Mysl (“Free Thought”) – visited the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University on May 21, 2012. During the visit, V. Inozemtsev delivered two lectures on the global role of the region and Russia as a whole, titled “Kaliningrad: a Bridge to Europe or a Place of Arms for a Non-existent Army?” and “Economic ...
Russia and “the Baltic Russians”
The disintegration of the Soviet Union led to the emergence of new states on the political map. Having lost the opportunity to exercise the same degree of influence through the former instruments Russia, willing to attain its goals ...