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Andrey Kortunov Holds a Briefing at Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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 ...

08.06.2017

Russia and NATO in the Baltic

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 ...

02.12.2016

Soft Power for the Baltic and Eastern Partnership

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 ...

22.06.2015

Relations between Russia and the West in Ukraine Context Discussed in Riga

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 ...

12.05.2014

Latvia: the Long Road to the Euro

... 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 ...

26.12.2013

The Baltic States’ Role in Russia-NATO Relations

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 ...

29.10.2012

RIAC Held a Club Meeting on the Baltic Issues

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 ...

04.06.2012

Vladislav Inozemtsev delivers lectures at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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 ...

25.05.2012

Russia’s “soft power” in the Baltic

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 ...

04.05.2012

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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