... anniversary. Currently, the organization seems to be going through a most critical stage of its development, expanding and at the same time searching for responses to new threats to peace and security. To discuss these and other matters, we met with SCO Secretary General Rashid Alimov on the sidelines of the conference
"Russia-China: toward a New Quality of Bilateral Relations."
This year the SCO is turning fifteen. How would you define its main achievement and current goals?
Now it seems ...
... Russian naval forces on Thursday ended their joint military exercises in the Mediterranean. The "Joint Sea-2015" drills, involving six Russian and three Chinese ships, were staged in four phases, focusing on maritime defense, replenishment and escorting. It was the fourth since joint China-Russia sea drills began in 2012. (Xinhua/Xiong Libing)
Moreover, he said, multilateral military cooperation has improved markedly in the past three years within such frameworks as the U.N. Security Council,...
... Russia by RIAC Deputy Programme Director Timur Makhmutov, chief researcher Vladimir Petrovsky from the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, senior research fellow Igor Denisov from the Centre for East Asian and SCO Studies of the Institute for International Studies of Moscow State Institute of International Relations under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and post-graduate student Yury Kulintsev from the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) of the ...
On December 21, 2015, Moscow
hosted
summit sessions of the CSTO Collective Security Council and the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council. Such meetings tend to attract much attention from the mass media due to important statements of the leaders and signed political declarations; ...
While BRICS and SCO countries were discussing a powerful economic collaboration among partner countries in first week of July 2015 and world was watching the outcome of these two meeting another collaboration was taking place in Vienna ,Austria of Eurasian Economic Association ...
... is so intricate that untangling it seems barely possible on a bilateral or even trilateral level, suggesting the need for pan-regional engagement.
Regional cooperation on Afghanistan has been discussed both by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), whose leaders, Russia and China, are political heavyweights that are in a position to unite regional forces for a future Afghanistan settlement. After the official end of the ISAF mission, Afghanistan’s ...
... Russia, on its own terms, into the Euro-Atlantic community, i.e. expanded West. The G8 membership symbolized that. The other was to integrate former Soviet republics into a full-fledged Eurasian Union: an economic, political, and security alliance, a Moscow-led power center in Eurasia.
Today, the first strategy is a complete failure; the second one, limited to economics and without Ukraine, qualifies as only a most moderate success.
Under these circumstances, reaching out pro-actively to the non-West ...
Working Paper 21/2015
The working paper is devoted to the activities of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), its influence on the Central Asian region, adjacent areas and states. Its relevance derives from the national security interests of Russia and the Central Asian region, connected to the need to develop and adopt a long-term SCO Development Strategy ...
... institute
Vladimir Matveyev
and Xiamen University professor
Larisa Smirnova
.
The event was moderated by RIAC Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov and attended by
Mikhail Konarovsky
, leading researcher of MGIMO Center for East Asian Studies and SCO, senior researcher of the Center
Igor Denisov
, Center Deputy Head
Anatoly Klimenko
, as well as working paper coauthors Dr. Luzyanin and Dr. Matveyev.
The analysts discussed the SCO role in the modern system of international relations, key challenges ...
A Russian expert on international politics and foreign policy said NATO-member Turkey cannot be granted membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as the main purpose of the SCO is to establish an alternative security bloc to NATO.
Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of the journal “Russia in Global Affairs” and honorary chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense ...
