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Russian diplomacy is in dire need of support from China Cybersecurity challenges are becoming increasingly important for ensuring Russia's national security. The issues of protecting information resources are coming to the fore in Russian foreign and domestic policy. There is reason to believe that the topic ...
Cyberpunk: Predictions and Reality In recent decades, individuals, society and the world as a whole have been changing at breakneck speed, necessitating scientific approaches to predicting future developments. However, science-based prediction is a relatively young discipline, while authors of fiction – and especially science fiction – have been attempting to model societal and technological changes for centuries. One particularly interesting trend is cyberpunk, a science fiction sub-genre...
RIAC’s Working Paper “Russia and Challenges of the Digital Environment” offers an inventive view on the problem of Big Data and its relationship with the nation’s digital sovereignty. Among other things, the paper considers the quickly evolving Big Data biological and medical segments, touching upon such critical matters as the possible emergence of targeted weapons able to target and injure specific groups of living beings, including humans. The rapidly growing volume of...
Internet governance is now one of the most lively and important topics in international relations. The issue has long been ignored and restricted to small silos of experts. However, the leaks disclosed by Edward Snowden triggered a massive response to the historical “stewardship” of the Internet by the United States. The stakes are high: today 2.5 billion people are connected to the web, and by 2030, the Internet is likely to represent 20% of the world’s GDP [1] . Beyond mere figures...
On May 28, 2014 two prestigious internationally-focused non-governmental organizations met to discuss important and emerging geopolitical issues and agreed on a program of cooperation to promote security and peace among East and West. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Ross Perot, Jr., EWI Chairman of the Board, convened the joint meeting and discussion in RIAC’s offices in Moscow. Participants included RIAC members and other Russian thought leaders, and EWI board members and staff...
Working paper #15 / 2014 This working paper was written as part of the Russian International Affairs Council’s project “Information Security, Response to Cyber Threats and the Use of the Internet to Defend Russia’s National Interests on the International Scene.” In their articles, the authors expound on Russia’s presence in cyberspace and suggest the identification of a reference point from which to develop the discussion and seek an effective strategy for Russian participants in global internet...
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...
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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