Oh how fickle and strange ‘revolutions’ can be. Perhaps the Western academic world can be forgiven for its presumptuousness: after all, it has been nearly a generation since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and subsequent march of ‘democratic revolutions’ all over the globe. Well, actually, that is partially true. What has…

These two writers reject any discrimination against Russian academicians by Western academic institutions.   Let us be clear. As letter from Martin Freiburghaus, headmaster of a Swiss School in Lausanne, rejecting the application of a Russian academician was published by the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, In the…

Although three years have passed since pro-democracy activists took to the streets of Tunis, Cairo, Manama and Sana’a to proclaim the birth of a new Middle Eastern world order, strong of the desire to see flourish modern democracy and social justice, and yet the entire region remains in the throes of unprecedented violence and bloodshed…

Author: András Radnóti, Junior Researcher, Russian International Affairs Council. A look at European and Eurasian integration after the Ukraine crisis Abstract:   Driven by the negative narratives through which it explains the world, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has launched an ambitious integration project in direct competition…

With the increasingly tension in Eastern Ukraine, the US imposes the tougher sanction against Russia, which covers Putin’s ‘inner circle’ and the restrictive measures on defense exports to Russia, on April. 28, 2014.  Through the recent indicators on Russian domestic economy, Kremlin has tasted the pains from the weakening…

The complexity of India’s foreign policy and domestic power dilemmas has led to many Western states inaccurately judging the country’s approach to intelligence strategy. India’s intelligence challenges break down most effectively into the categories of domestic, regional, global, and emerging:

 


Indian domestic…

This piece investigates the unique peculiarities of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Instead of being a Eurasian counterpart to the EU, an additional IO bridge between East and West, or even influenced by organizations like ASEAN, the SCO is dominated by micro-agendas that work in opposition to the theoretical literature explaining…

While China has accepted human security as a new framework to study modern security challenges, it has been very busy trying to show how the implications of human security can be intrusive and even invasive of state sovereignty. Indicative of its confidence in projecting its own power outward across the global community, ‘non-traditional…

Edward Lucas is a senior editor of The Economist. He was the weekly’s Moscow bureau chief between 1998 and 2002, later serving as its Central and East European correspondent. Lucas is author of three books: Deception, on Russia-West espionage, The New Cold War, on Putin’s Russia and the threat it poses to the West…

Has the crisis in Ukraine damaged Russia's ties with its compatriots abroad? We discussed the current situation with Eugenia Troitskaya, advisor for the Program Implementation Department of the Government Commission on Affairs of Compatriots Abroad at the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and…

“Arm Ukraine and Impose Energy Sanctions,” Our article, so entitled, was published in the oldest and most respected English language paper in the Ukraine, the Kyiv Post, on the day of Vice President Joe Biden´s arrival. It is also on our website  jvlv.net.  But we also address the issue of U.S foreign policy mistakes…

Following on from my fist article in the RIAC blog page – “A Step forward in Cooperation between Malaysia and Russia” dated 4 March 2014, I am happy to inform all readers of the RIAC blog page and friends of the RIAC that the Malaysian Government extends a warm welcome to Russian Youth, Youth Organisations and Universities to…