A meeting on developing Russian-American relations has been held. This took place on June 20 at the Russian International Affairs Council.
The meeting was attended by President of RIAC,
Igor Ivanov
, Director General of RIAC,
Andrey Kortunov
, a member of RIAC and Director of the Institute of the US and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician
S.M. Rogov
, Director of the Russia & Eurasia Program - the Carnegie Endowment Foundation for International Peace, former U.S. Ambassador...
On June 4-5 this year, a meeting of European Leadership Network for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation took place in Warsaw, Poland.
Igor Ivanov, President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), a member of the Board of Directors of ELN spoke at the meeting.
«I would like to start my short remarks with the question: “Have we ever had real trust between NATO and Russia?” Of course, twenty years ago, after the end of the Cold War there were many elevated...
On June 4th this year, the anniversary conference of the Luxembourg International Forum on Preventing Nuclear Disaster was held in Berlin, Germany.
Igor Ivanov, President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), a member of the Supervisory Board of the Luxembourg Forum, attended the conference and spoke at the opening ceremony.
The full text of Igor Ivanov speech (in russian)
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On 8 June 2012 the Russian International Affairs Council and the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs held in Budapest the international conference “
Russia and Central European Counties: New Agenda and New Institutes
”. The conference became the first Council’s activity organized abroad.
RIAC members and experts, representatives of the Hungarian and Central European academic community, Hungarian and foreign press, representatives of the diplomatic corps, accredited in Hungary...
On May 30, 2012, a club meeting of the Russian International Affairs Council members took place. The discussion on the subject “
Russia and the Baltic countries: steps toward normalization of relations
” was the main topic of the meeting.
In the course of the meeting Academician
A. Chubaryan
, Director of the General History Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and
I. Yurgens
, Chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Development Foundation, presented expert reports on the...
On May 2012 RIA Novosti press-center hosted a roundtable on “Russian Presidency in APEC: Prospects for the Business and the State”. The event organized by the Russian International Information Agency jointly with the National APEC Business Center was attended by prominent diplomats and experts – G. Ivashentsov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia, Director of the Russian APEC Study Center; M. Larionova, Director of the International Organizations Research Institute at NRU “Higher...
On May 16, 2012 in The Hague
I. Ivanov, RIAC President
, delivered a speech at the seminar “
Realities of European Security
” organized by the
Dutch Senate
:
Mr. President, distinguished colleagues, friends,
First of all, let me say that I am honored and pleased for having an opportunity to speak in front of this distinguished audience. Russian – Dutch relations have a long and remarkable history, which goes back into Middle Ages.
However, in my brief presentation I will talk not...
On May 11-15, 2012 A. Kortunov, RIAC Director General was on a visit to Beijing on the invitation of the Chinese Ministry for Foreign Affairs Institute of International Relations’ Energy Problems Center.
During the consultations there were discussed prospects for cooperation between RIAC and the Center including the issues of Cino-Russian interaction in energy sphere, collaboration of Russian and Chinese business associations and the participation of China’s representatives in the Second Asia-Pacific...
On March 23, 2012 Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) under the auspices of the President’s Administration and the Government of the Russian Federation holds in Moscow a workshop conference “Euro-Atlantic security community: myth or reality?”
The motto of the conference is “from political declarations to concrete actions”. Prominent Russian politicians, scholars, experts and public figures will be discussing the steps to be taken in humanitarian, economic and military spheres with a view...
