Interview with Konstantin Sivkov
On the eve of Victory Day, we met with Commodore (Ret.)
Konstantin Sivkov
, Doctor of Military Science and Vice-President of the Academy for Geopolitical Problems, to get his opinion about changes in military strategy since World War II.
From 1945 until the present day, military strategy has been transforming step by step alongside changes made to weapon systems, beginning with the emergence of nuclear weapons, which have established a threshold for conflict escalation...
On March 5, RIAC’s Program Director Ivan Timofeyev, Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov and Internet Projects’ Manager Alexander Teslya received Senior Vice President
Bruce McConnell
and Director of Moscow Office
Vladimir Ivanov
of the
East-West Institute
.
The meeting participants discussed several issues of mutual interest, as the East-West Institute is preparing documents on extremism in Syria, international development assistance for high social-risk countries, and drug trafficking...
The Future of the Internet
In 1969, the U.S. Department of Defense set up ARPANET to ensure strategic command and data transmission capability in the event of a Soviet nuclear strike. Over 40 years later, the Internet, its direct descendant, has become a pillar of technological development and a powerful globalization tool that is rapidly changing the world and society. What will the next 40 years bring the Internet? Will this digital driver of progress crash down or alter civilization forever?...
Information Impact as a New Type of Weapon
In the ongoing fight for spheres of economic and political influence, the emphasis is ever more noticeably shifting from open confrontation, including wars, to the reliance on various forms of control over and management of nations’ information resources. They use for the purpose, highly effective and hidden penetration of the software run on the government’s information and management systems, and the tie-in with foreign vendors’ IT...
