On November 24 Institut Francais des Relations Internationals (IFRI) hosted an international seminar “Russia 2016: Return of Great Power Strategy?”
About 100 experts, diplomats, journalists, and community leaders form France, other European countries, Russia, and the USA took part in this seminar.
The topics for the discussion covered Russian current foreign policy strategy, reforming Russian power structures, evolution of Russia’s military doctrine, Russia’s ...
November 20 and 27, France’s right-wing republicans will hold their primaries intended both to determine the single candidate capable of winning the first elections round defeating the left-wing candidate, and to define the principal features of the candidate’s ...
In June 2016, France adopted its National Arctic Exploration Programme, which sets out the country’s basic interests in the region and delineates the principal trends and priorities of its Arctic policies in the coming years. It is quite logical that this document ...
A commentary on “L’endiguement renforcé: les politiques de sécurité de la France et des États-Unis en Afrique” IFRI report, February 2016
A commentary on “L’endiguement renforcé: les politiques de sécurité de la France et des États-Unis en Afrique” IFRI
report
, February 2016....
On September 6, 2016, the Federation Council of the Russian Federation was the venue for
presentation of report "Russia-France: a Parliamentary Glimpse into the Future"
prepared by Council's Foreign Affairs Committee in assistance with main Russian think tanks including RIAC.
Summing up the results, Committee's Chairman Konstantin Kosachev mentioned that the paper ...
... the 16th century until the end of World War I – most Arab countries were represented by
Vilayets
(provinces) of the Ottoman Empire while the western part of the Arab East was by that time already under the rule of colonial powers, England and France. In 1916, London and Paris secretly agreed on a future division of the Asian part of the Ottoman state, which was suffering defeat in the war. Under these agreements, after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the Arab
vilayets
were to come under ...
... 2017. It is, however, likely, that Mr. Mariani was not being entirely truthful: the results of the presidential election will not be known until May next year. It is true that ever since presidential and legislative elections were brought into sync in France in the early 2000s, the party of the president-elect never failed to win the parliamentary vote in the wake of the presidential election. Nevertheless, the new makeup of the National Assembly will not be determined until June 2017, and it is far ...
... by Fox News, by Garry Kasparov writing in The Guardian, and by former U.S. Ambassador Micheal McFaul.
Not a very good trust builder for two nations who have pledged to work together to combat extremism.
Existentialism, a product of Nazi-occupied France
In fact, academic existentialism did not evolve into an “ism” (or an “academic brand”) until 1944, in Nazi-occupied France.
It emerged because Hitler's censors are known to have overlooked works by the likes of ...
... only be solved within the European continent.
The Normandy format was initiated in Bénouville the 6th of June 2014 at the celebration of the 70th anniversary of D-Day, with the objective to allow a first encounter between Poroshenko and Putin. France is thus a facilitator for negotiations. It did not sign the Minsk agreements but supported them with a declaration.
There are further reasons that make France part of the ‘Normandy Format’. France (under the presidency of Nicolas ...
On April 14, 2016 France’s Ambassador in Russia Jean-Maurice Ripert held a meeting at the French Embassy with RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and leading Russian international journalists Andrey Soldatov and Pavel Felgenhauer.
The discussion focused on the ...
