On March 12, RIAC representatives Anton Tsvetov and Vladimir Morozov attended the opening ceremony of academic conference "
BRICS in the Modern World: Specifics and Prospects for Strategic Partnership
" in MGIMO-University. The forum gathered young foreign policy scholars, as well as undergraduates from RIAC partner universities and corporate member organizations, among them MGIMO, Higher School of Economics, University of Peoples' Friendship, Financial University of the Russian Federation...
On March 8, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov was in Bucharest to attend an international conference on cooperation in the Black Sea Region timed to the fifth anniversary of the
Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation
, a program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
The Russian delegation also included Russian Ambassador to Romania Oleg Malginov, Minister-Counselor of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest Eugeny Yegorov, and Nadezhda Arbatova, Section Head of Center for European Integration...
On March 12 RIAC hosted a meeting with Sir Roderic Lyne, vice-chairman of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and former ambassador to Russia.
The Russian side was represented by Igor Ivanov, RIAC president of the Russian Council, Andrei Kortunov, RIAC general director, and Natalia Shchetinina, head of External Relations and Corporate Marketing department of JP Morgan (Russia).
Discussions included current state and prospects of development of Russian-British relations,...
On March 6 RIAC in conjunction with the international organization Global Zero held youth debates
“Nuclear Disarmament: “For” and “Against”
. The discussions covered the current situation with regard to nuclear weapons, positions of leading nuclear powers, possibility of including third countries into the disarmament dialogue and the future role of nuclear weapons in international relations.
Igor Ivanov
, RIAC president, and
Andrei Kortunov
, RIAC general director...
On March 5 at the embassy of Japan in Moscow Andrei Kortunov, RIAC General Director met with Koji Tsuruoka, Japan’s Deputy Foreign Minister, and Tikahito Harada, Japan’s ambassador to Russia.
Also present were Evsei Gurvich, head of the Economic Expert Group under the RF Government, and officials of the political and economic sections of the embassy of Japan in Moscow.
Discussions covered current state and prospects of development of Russian-Japanese relations, Russia’s G20 presidency...
On March 5 a discussion was held at RIAC on the Council’s prospects of cooperation with the World Bank and the World Bank Institute. The participants of the discussion were Tatiana Leonova, regional coordinator for countries of Europe and Central Asia of the World Bank Institute and Julia Komagaeva, coordinator of the Russian office of the World Bank on G20/G8 issues.
The RIAC was represented by Andrei Kortunov, RIAC general director, (hyperlink) and Ekaterina Chimiris, program manager (hyperlink)...
On February 21, RIAC representatives Vladimir Morozov and Anton Tsvetov attended the opening ceremony of the G20 Model Simulation at MGIMO-University. Held for the second time, the event hosted undergraduates not only from MGIMO but also Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Higher School of Economics, Moscow State University and St. Petersburg State University. The program included simulation of various situations at G20 negotiations to help the participants improve their diplomatic skills, learn to effectively...
On March 6, 2013, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in partnership with international organization Global Zero is to hold a young experts’ debate on pros and contras of nuclear disarmament.
Two 30-40-year old scholars will present opposing reports on the virtues and shortcomings of nuclear disarmament, after which participating young specialists should join the discussion with the final aim to reach a consensus, no matter how hard it might seem.
The debate will also cover report...
On 14 February the institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ILA) welcomed the representatives of RIAC.
The meeting at the ILA was attended by the Institute's Director Vladimir Davydov, RAS Corresponding Member; his deputy for academic studies Dr. Boris Martynov; ILA's Academic Secretary Eduard Bely; Dr. Pyotr Yakovlev, Head of the Iberian Studies Centre; and Dr. Zbignev Ivanovsky, head and academic advisor of Political Conjucture research group. The RIAC side was represented...
Russian Council has recently launched new section of
English-speaking blogs
.
Here you will find comments by both Russian and foreign experts and researchers on topics, which are high on international agenda.
This week we introduce our first authors:
Maria Merkulova
, with her
entry on the US strategy in Central Asia
.
Ekaterina Migol
, who
comments on French intervention in Mali
.
Maria Prosviryakova
, with her
entry on recent North Korean nuclear test
.
And
Igor Ossipov
, with his
reviews...
