Region: Caucasus

On March 14, 2023, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a round table «Development of the EAEU 2022+: Strategic Objectives and Current Requirements», where the authors from the Institute for the Development of Integration Processes of the Russian Foreign Trade Academy (IDIP RFTA) presented the eponymous report

The Eurasian Economic Union is turning into an important tool for Russia to increase resistance to sanctions, reducing technological and financial dependence and fostering foreign trade with friendly nations

Tbilisi has not opted for Russia or the West: Georgia goes first

By imposing a blockade on Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan is helping to fuel anti-Russian sentiments in Armenia, where Russia’s image and soft power have seriously suffered

On November 7, 2022 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO RAS) and World Economy and International Relations Journal held a workshop titled "Economic Aspect of Eurasian Integration: Obstacles and Ways of Overcoming them"

On October 19, 2022, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in cooperation with Integration and Development Organization and the Eurasian Expert Club held a roundtable titled “Promising Directions of the EAEU Development in the New Environment and New Opportunities for Collaboration with Other Partners in the Context of Their Transforming Foreign Economic Strategies.”

For most of Russia’s neighbours, the conflict between Moscow and Kiev opens up great opportunities

A path forward would be to strengthen the strategic alliance between Russia and Armenia, with the aim of preventing Turkey, and by extension NATO, from establishing any domination in the post-Soviet Transcaucasia

No matter how well the cooperation between Ankara and Kiev may develop, Erdogan will not forget about the “intermediary” role between Ukraine and Russia

Although Moscow’s position in the region remains firm, Kremlin elites are becoming increasingly wary of Ankara’s efforts to project its influence along Russian borders

Armenia needs to explore what it wants to get from cooperation with China and what it has to offer to Beijing

The discussion focused on the following issues: the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, relations between Russia and Georgia in the context of challenges in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and prospects for cooperation between Russia and the European Union in the South Caucasus