... brought back the importance of the Group, which five years ago (with Russia in it) was fading away and losing its ground. The huge impact of the G20 Summit in Toronto, coupled with almost complete silence (even among anti-globalists) with regard to the G8 Summit that preceded it, proves this.
To Be or Not to Be
Having tried and failed in 2014 to block the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, the remaining G8 members came up with a less dramatic, but equally effective way of “punishing” Russia ...
International experts' comments
The rapid development of situation in Ukraine led many G8 countries’ officials to show their concerns about the possibility of keeping the forum in a past format. We asked international experts to share their opinion on the consequences that situation in Ukraine may have on the G8 summit in Sochi and ...
On March 12, Moscow hosted international high-level expert workshop
"Post-2015 Development Agenda: toward a Renewed Partnership for Development
" sponsored by the World Bank, United Nations Development Program and Russia's G8 Sherpa Office and attended by top officials of international organizations, ministries and agencies, Russian and foreign experts, civil society leaders and businesspersons.
The participants focused on the results of the broad debate within the UN efforts ...
... Vyacheslav Nikonov, and Rosatom Deputy Director Ambassador Nikolay Spassky (both RIAC members) visited the residence of UK Ambassador to Moscow Timothy Barrow to meet Foreign Office Political Director Simon Grass who came to Moscow for preparations of the G8 summit scheduled for June 2014 in Moscow.
Moderated by Mr. Barrow, the discussion covered various aspects of Russia's presidency in the G8, current and future relations between Russia and the European Union, international security, and Russian-British ...
It is almost exactly 15 years to the day that the first G8 meeting took place in Birmingham. It was an informal forum of the world’s eight leading industrial nations, to which Russia had just ascended.
Fifteen years later, Moscow has not only become a member of nearly every international club, but it ...
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Report №2 / 2012
The report presents key findings and recommendations of several scientific and expert workshops conducted by Russian International Affairs Council within the project «Increasing the effectiveness of Russia’s Participation in G8, G20, and BRICS in accordance with the Priorities and National Interests of Russia».
The report deals with the problems of legitimacy and effectiveness of the «Group of Twenty» as a platform for the dialogue between developed and developing countries,...
Standby summit?
The 38th G8 summit was held in Camp David, Maryland, United States, on 18–19 May 2012. Not much was expected from this summit, even though this was not connected with the fact that Vladimir Putin did not go there. The world is frozen in anticipation of the outcome ...