... pages of our common history. Through analyzing our success stories, we can try to identify the means that we can use today to get our relationship out of the current crisis.
I keep thinking, for instance, about the state visit of President Putin to the United Kingdom in July of 2003. I took an active part in the preparation of this visit together with my peer partner Jack Straw. That was the first official visit of the head of the Russian State to the Great Britain in the last hundred and fifty years....
It was Lord Palmerston, the Victorian-era British Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, who said that nations had no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests. (The same man in 1841 famously dismissed Hong Kong as “a barren rock”.)
It is these “permanent interests” which seem to have triumphed in Sino-British relations after a minor hiccup which followed the Brexit referendum in the summer.
Things came to a head in September, 2016 when Jim O'Neill, the UK Treasury minister leading trade...
... Russia-UK relations as well as security issues in Europe within the framework of this year's political developments.
Andrey Kortunov informed the Foreign office representative about the joint projects developed by RIAC and partner organizations in the United Kingdom and other European countries.
On December 8, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, delivered a public lecture in London School of Economics «The Kremlin’s logic: evolution of relations between Russia and the West».
The lecture was attended by London School of Economics’ and other British universities’ professors and PhD students, think tank representatives, government officials and journalists.
A study conducted by the Chatham House on the relationship between problems concerning nuclear weapons (NW) and other issues of multilateral international cooperation published in October 2016 finds there is common ground between the traditional approaches to nuclear disarmament and the “humanitarian” views calling for the complete and immediate prohibition of nuclear weapons.
View from London
On 12 October 2016, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, better known as the
Chatham House
, ...
... government will conduct a policy of a more active and zealous protection of its national security interests, using the independence gained after withdrawing from the European Union.
Brexit could lead to a radical change in the balance of power on the United Kingdom’s domestic market and in the geographic and sectoral structure of trade and investment flows. Relevant changes could also affect China, one of the most dynamic investors in the UK economy.
China’s Expansionist Investment Policy
China ...
The United Kingdom referendum on its membership in the European Union has given rise to countless expert opinions, assessments and publications, ranging from moderate to radical, from optimistic to extremely pessimistic predictions that the United Kingdom,...
... possible implications for the EU.
What do you think the implications for Russia-EU relations could be after Brexit?
Most of Europe is still in shock from the result of Brexit. I think a lot of people didn’t expect the outcome that we got. People in the United Kingdom definitely didn’t. I think it’s notable that the EU’s new global strategy came out only a few days after Brexit.
However, it shows that Brexit will impact EU-Russia relations by distracting the European Union at a time of critical ...
Although fears about the potential implications of the UK withdrawal from the European Union are widespread, experts doubt Brexit will shatter the EU policy towards Russia in the near future. The latest House of Commons report on Russia indicates no change in Britain’s vision of its security interests either.
The UK House of Commons Defense Committee has released a
report
highlighting the challenges Russia poses for the kingdom’s security interests.
The report comes at a critical moment as the UK’s...
On May 16, 2016 a group of RIAC members met with a delegation of UK parliamentarians headed by Chairman of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee Crispin Blunt. The meeting took place at the residence of the British Ambassador to Russia.
The delegation has arrived to Moscow from London for consultations with their counterparts in the State Duma. This visit denotes the first step in restoration of Russia-UK inter-Parliamentary contacts, suspended in early 2014.
The Russian side at the...
