On December 12, Włodzimierz Marciniak, the Ambassador of Republic of Poland to Russia, visited RIAC.
RIAC President Igor Ivanov informed Polish diplomat about the Council’s projects concerning European security and Russia’s cooperation with the EU countries and NATO, as well as about the RIAC’s experience ...
... down of Russia’s relations with NATO and the European Union, and the introduction of sanctions have been felt particularly acutely.
Russia’s security relations with the Baltic Sea Region countries are defined by the membership of Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Estonia in NATO, as well as by the non-aligned status of Finland and Sweden. Following the onset of the “Ukrainian crisis,” these relations have been affected by the considerable deterioration of the situation, and by the marked militarization ...
On November 4, 2016 Center for European Policy Analysis, CEPA, hosted a «
Warsaw Summit 2016 – What’s Next for NATO?
» conference in Warsaw.
The following issues farmed the agenda of the conference: NATO on the Eastern Flank, the development and the future of the Alliance, Russia-NATO relations.
Natalia Evtikhevich
, Programme Manager, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), was one of the speakers at the discussion session «What will Russia do? NATO-Russia relations»...
... world and what it all means for the future of Ukraine have reached fever pitch. The recent NATO Summit in Warsaw, the attempted coup in Turkey, the complicated dynamics of the development of Ukraine’s relations with important regional partner (Poland) and the threat of the situation in Donbass escalating – all this has sent shockwaves around the country.
The NATO Summit in Warsaw
In his
analytical report
,
“First Hand Results of the NATO Summit in Warsaw,”
Co-Director of ...
... day – such as rule of law,
independent judiciaries and a free press
." According to Mr. Obama, these are the values the American-Polish alliance is based on. These words the American President addressed to Andrzej Duda, the President of Poland at the recent NATO summit in Warsaw; these words might have passed unnoticed in the world, but in Poland, they created an uproar. They unequivocally stated that Poland has anti-democratic tendencies, which has already long been discussed in Europe....
... defence (BMD) base at Deveselu, Romania, had been put into operation. This marked the second phase of the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) announced by Barack Obama in 2009. Immediately thereafter, construction of a similar base in Redzikowo, Poland began
as part of the third EPAA phase
. These events force us once again to reflect on the potential threat that the United States’ current plans to deploy BMD in Europe poses to Russia’s national security.
Aegis Ashore
EPAA replaced ...
... environmentally safe manufacturing, patenting technological innovations, etc. It is conducive to shaping uniform policies on an ever-expanding range of issues. The Ukrainian crisis and the difficulties in Russia–Ukraine relations have stripped Slovakia and Poland of their crucial role in distributing Russian hydrocarbons. Now, the V4 countries are somewhat frustrated with the current system, whereby they receive Russian gas from the west, via Germany: it is more expensive, and also deprives the V4 region ...
... officers and journalists, among them Polish Presdient Andrzej Duda, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, foreign and defense ministers of Poland, presidents of Croatia and Montenegro, foreign ministers of Italy and Norway, as well as other officials from NATO and neutral European countries.
The discussants focused on NATO strategy in the eastern and southern flanks, its evolution in the ...
On June 7 Poland hosted a NATO exercise, the largest in the country's history, with the participation of all bloc members plus Ukraine, while on June 6 the maritime phase of the Baltops-2016 game was launched in Finland. Were these provocations intended to trigger ...
On June 7, 2016, the
Embassy of Poland in Moscow
became the venue for an opinions exchange between pundits from RIAC and
Polish Center for Eastern Studies
.
RIAC was represented by its Director General Andrey Kortunov, Academician Vladimir Baranovsky, Director of RAS Center for Situational ...