... Kortunov had a meeting with a delegation of the French National Assembly, composed of Thierry Mariani, Co-Chair of the “Franco-Russian dialogue” Association, MP representing French citizens living abroad, Former Minister of Transport of France, member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly; Odile Saugues, Vice-Chairman of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Commission; and Philippe Cochet, Mayor of Caluire-et-Cuire. The ...
... was represented by its Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov, who briefed the participants on the reasons and preliminary results of the Russian military operation in Syria.
The discussion has revealed that the interests and abilities of Germany and France in resolving the Syrian crisis vary, and developing a unified approach requires a lot of teamwork. At that, Russia’s recent actions, namely promoting inter-Syrian dialogue and withdrawal of its main military grouping from Syria, were viewed ...
UN propagandists claim that the selection process to name the next secretary general, who will take office before the inauguration of the next U.S. president, will be the most transparent in the history of the organization, which was founded in 1945.
But on close examination, the security council recommends a new secretary general based on "a private meeting."
This means that the politics and diplomacy that determine who becomes the next leader of the institution, and the roles of NGOs...
... relations avec la Russie : comment sortir de l'impasse?
) based on the outcomes of discussions with participation from French and Russian diplomats, politicians, experts and civil society leaders. The paper not only outlines the key shifts in Russia-France relations in the wake of the Ukraine crisis but undeniably goes beyond the boundaries of the current situation. On the one hand, the authors uncover the deep-rooted causes of the drastic deterioration in the dialogue between Russia and the West,...
On February 25, 2016 the French Embassy in Moscow hosted a meeting between France’s Secretary General of Defense and National Security Louis Gautier and RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, RIAC expert and Head of Strategic Assessments Section at RAS Center for Situational Analysis Sergey Utkin and independent political ...
On January 28, 2016, former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner met with a group of Russian public figures at the French Embassy in Moscow.
The Russian International Affairs Council was represented at the meeting by its Director General Andrey Kortunov.
The discussion, moderated by French Ambassador to Russia Jean-Maurice Ripert, covered the issues of Russia’s foreign and domestic policy, European security and the European Union’s future, Russian-French relations, as well as development...
... combined GDP of eight countries-- China, Russia, India, Brazil, Turkey, Mexico, South Korea and Indonesia-- will account for about a third of the world economy by 2020. The G7 countries – Germany, the United States, Japan, Great Britain, Canada, France and Italy – will account for just over 40%.” But it is the major economies who are stuck paying the full tab.
Here is a list of the world's "Top 20 Most Polluted Cities" courtesy of The World Economic Forum and the ...
... January 19, 2016,
Sciences Po’s
(the Paris Institute of Political Studies) School of International Affairs in partnership with the Center for Analysis, Forecasts and Strategy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development of France (le Centre d’analyse, de prévision et de stratégie du Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international) hosted an international conference “
The Art of Diplomacy in the 21st ...
On January 18, 2016, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and Program Director Ivan Timofeev met in Paris with the leadership of the
Crans Montana Forum
, namely the latter’s founder Jean-Paul Carteron and its President Pierre-Emmanuel Quirin, and discussed promising areas of cooperation, upcoming events and publications.
The Crans Montana Forum is a reputable international organization that brings together political and economic elites of European states and their foreign partners.
... inept handling of the situation further aggravated matters and played into the hands of the Tuaregs. The Tuaregs were gaining territory with astonishing speed. There was a real threat that the central government would fall. It was at this point that France, the former colonial leader, stepped in. Operation Serval was carried out in January–February 2013 (officially it was completed in July 2014) and quickly defeated the Tuaregs, who by then were already in conflict with the Islamists. Among ...
