... “difficult challenges lie ahead” in Serbia’s path towards EU membership despite the official optimistic rhetoric[vi]. One of the major challenges on Serbia’s road towards EU accession remains the management of the relation with Russia. Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić recently admitted that the ties with Russia will remain “a big obstacle in finishing membership negotiations”[vii]. While openly advocating for alignment with the West, Vučić’s foreign policy ...
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- 20.10.2016 23:45:00
... place, and is thus deeply relevant to understanding our own predicament with Mr. Trump and his fans.
To illustrate this point, I will steal from my own graduate school work in 2009 on conflict in Georgia involving Georgians, Abkhaz, Ossetians, and Russians, inserted in italicized blocs (apologies for all the parenthetical citations as we had a very strict and I would argue frustrating series of guidelines; here is the full paper).
As will be demonstrated, much of Georgian history involves internal ...
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- 12.10.2016 15:03:00
In May 2014, in the aftermath of Russia-Ukrainian crisis, the European Commission adopted European Energy Security Strategy, establishing two pillars of European security of supply: prevention and mitigation. The main goal was to prevent gas supply disruptions by implementing “gas ...
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- 09.10.2016 21:21:00
Today, Russia remains the second largest gas producer after the US. However, its leverage ability is being challenged by the slowdown of world economy (stemming from 2008 crisis and decreasing growth of the Chinese economy,in particular), political turmoil (Ukrainian ...
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- 09.10.2016 20:58:00
... or even tens of thousands disappear, and are tortured or killed. Criticism of the regime can be picked up by the secret police and can lead to the worst of consequences.
This bears no relationship to the regime over which Vladimir Putin presides in Russia. In addition to the aspects of life Daniil mentions, there are other features that distinguish Putin’s Russia from real dictatorships. Daniil doesn’t have to have the slightest worry about making critical remarks about Putin and his ...
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- 25.09.2016 03:39:00
Russia dearly wants good relations with Europe and does not want the EU to collapse. Some members of the European Union regard Russia as an enemy, most notably, Poland the the Baltic states. Others don’t regard Russia as an enemy. Attitudes towards ...
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- 25.09.2016 03:25:00
Longstanding relations between Moscow and the Kurds has provided Russia with a “Kurdish card”, that is, the ability to modulate its support to various Kurdish national ambitions throughout the Middle East, depending on what the Kremlin was seeking to obtain from Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The current ...
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- 15.09.2016 10:44:00
... regional security was not created. Therefore bilateral relations, contracts and agreements, and alliances between state actors of the Northeast Asia are foundation of the latter.[1] Countries of the sub region are involved in the Ukrainian crisis - Russia is directly involved, and China indirectly. The first comes out of it with liabilities (at least, with economic liabilities and, to a lesser extent, with policy liabilities), the second comes out with a major asset. The transformations in the region ...
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- 02.09.2016 11:23:00
A close look at the tangled web of relationships involving Trump, his Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, his campaign in general, Putin, Russia, and WikiLeaks in light of the DNC and Clinton-aimed related hacking is not reassuring. Trump is fond of using the phrase: "There's something going on!" when he wants to imply a scandal without going into detail. Well, "There's ...
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- 16.08.2016 17:46:00
... Trump, in an interview with The New York Times, gave insight towards what U.S. foreign policy under his leadership would look like.[1] Receiving the most attention in the press and on social media was when asked if the United States would respond to a Russian invasion of the Baltic (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), as per Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty, Trump only gave a definitive “yes” for those states who have “fulfilled their obligation to us….” To a state ...
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- 10.08.2016 10:30:00
... arrested or purged entails a whopping 30,000 per week, the West is looking to normalize relations with fellow NATO member Turkey at the earliest opportune moment. This will assuredly happen after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan determines the extent of Russian geopolitical concession, if any, during an Aug 9 meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Everyone is playing a game of waiting, or more specifically, a “game of chicken” which incidentally was a Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) scenario ...
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- 02.08.2016 15:11:00
... Heidegger, and Nietsche.
Western media plays the Putin blame game
In a world where Superman, Batman and Jason Bourne represent truth, justice and the American Way, to more and more young Americans, Washington public diplomacy assets have tagged Russian president Vladimir Putin as the leader of a plot to use Brexit as a tool to destabilize the EU.
The Express in London and Foreign Policy are saying that Brexit represents a victory for Putin. This view has been echoed by Fox News, by Garry Kasparov ...
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- 28.07.2016 07:50:00
... them a child before the age of seven.” Since the Soviet times, the one-time intense education system (later adopted by China) has been constantly deteriorating. And even though the statistics shows relatively high levels of higher education in Russia, the output divulges the following trend: while the number of people with education and various certificates continues to grow, the level of knowledge (which can be traced in the results of academic exams and competitions) is way behind that of ...
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- 23.07.2016 09:28:00
... membership is back on the table. Membership would help break the foreign policy and economic isolation the country experienced due to the UN and could serve as a crucial step towards greater regional collaboration and integration.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani meet during the 2013 SCO summit in Bishkek. (RIA Novosti/Michael Klimentyev)
At this year’s summit, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif presented ...
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- 13.07.2016 14:35:00
The accession of 10+2 new countries to the EU, most of which were either former Soviet republics or Soviet satellites, has undermined the influence of Russia over its shared neighborhood with the EU and has further complicated the energy relations between Russia and the EU. There are arguably two main factors relating to our analysis that separate the CEE countries from the older Western European states: ...
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- 04.07.2016 12:07:00
... widening of the EEU to new countries. The result is that the future of the whole Eurasian integration project is unclear. Since its inception, the EEU has been in a perpetual state of identity crisis. Western critics deride the Union as nothing more than a Russian attempt to revive the Soviet Union, a claim that President Putin has vehemently denied. This is based on the argument that the economic rationale for the Union, the revival of economic ties between post-Soviet countries, was against the economic ...
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- 04.07.2016 12:06:00
On June 30, 2016, the United States announced that it would be open to limited military cooperation with Russia in Syria against the al Qaeda linked Jabhat al-Nusra. Washington’s cooperation proposal was conditional on Russia pressuring Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to cease military assaults against Syrian rebels the US government does not label ...
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- 03.07.2016 23:28:00
... campaign, the reality beyond America seems to show his candidacy is being taken quite seriously by other countries. Some may even be taking it not just seriously but favorably when compared to the anticipated presidency of another Clinton. At the moment, Russia seems to be one of those countries. However, deeper analysis shows this ‘support’ might be more of an indictment against past Hillary positions and statements rather than based on real evidence that accurately predicts what a Trump ...
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- 30.06.2016 20:53:00
According to the “The Soft Power 30” index published on June 14, Russia made it to the 27th place. Jonathan McClory admits that it can be quite surprising. However, he argues that Russia is a diplomatic powerhouse with unique capabilities. Seems Russian soft power has risen last year.
On June 14, 2016 Portland, ...
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- 20.06.2016 16:06:00
Having never officially observed an election in Brazil former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and the organization he founded to promote ethical democracy have given unequivocal support to president (sic) Michel Temer and his team in their efforts to safeguard Brazil's democratic values.
The endorsement, signed by Carter, congratulated prominent electoral law specialist Torquato Jardim on his appointment as Temer's new Transparency Minister. It went on the official government website...
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- 20.06.2016 09:29:00
