On November 25, 2013, following the visit of the former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Moscow, RIAC held a meeting on Russia-U.S. relations with Yale students. The event appeared to be successful and fruitful. On behalf of Yale students who participated in the meeting, Dennis Wang sent a letter of gratitude to RIAC expressing his deepest appreciation for hosting them and setting up the discussion.
On November 25, 2013, following the visit of the former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Moscow, RIAC held a meeting on Russia-U.S. relations with Yale students.
The event was attended by students majoring in international relations, PhD fellows from MGIMO-University and the Institute for U.S. and Canadian studies as well as experts from the RIAC working group on Russia-U.S. relations. The discussion revolved around various aspects of bilateral relations, i.e. perception of foreign policy interests in both countries, interaction within Russia-U.S.-China triangle; influence of the Cold War legacy on the current Russia-U.S. relations along with the Syrian crisis and its possible consequences for the international community.
The event appeared to be successful and fruitful. On behalf of Yale students who participated in the meeting, Dennis Wang sent a letter of gratitude to RIAC expressing his deepest appreciation for hosting them and setting up the discussion. He says it was incredible to have an English-language interaction with Russian students and experts here in Russia, and to really see things from the other side. We learned so much about the way that you think about general perspectives on the U.S.-Russian relationship, and about opportunities for U.S.-Russian cooperation and the domestic and historical constraints that prevent us from taking advantage of them. I think we all share a common hope that we can move past the Cold War perspective in the coming years.
The RIAC believes that a dialogue between students and young specialists from the two countries is of paramount importance and permits to bring up a new generation of U.S. and Russia experts as well as to increase the level of mutual understanding between the future researchers and leaders and establish interpersonal contacts.
