Migration is a Blow to Central and Eastern European Identity
Hungary is under siege. Every day, thousands of refugees from Asia and Africa are crossing the border illegally. The country’s capital in the news reports on a daily basis against the backdrop of an ever worsening situation for ...
On September 4, 2015,
Latvian Institute of International Affair
s held a roundtable "
European Security: Engagement or Mistrust?
" moderated by Director of the Latvian Institute of International Affairs Andris Sprūds and attended by RIAC Website Editor-in-Chief Daria Khaspekova, Imants Lieģis of
European Leadership Network
and ...
From July 30 to August 6, 2015, Belgrade is hosting international summer school “
Geopolitics in the Emerging Multipolar Era
”, held by the Serbian Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) with participation of over 30 young foreign relations scholars, tutors and diplomats lectured by representatives of global and regional international organizations, public figures and leading specialists on foreign affairs.
August 2 was the Russia Day intended to cover...
On June 25, 2015, the Federation Council of Russia’s Federal Assembly held hearing “Mechanisms for Pan-European Cooperation: Opportunities for Parliamentary Diplomacy” opened by Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs Konstantin Kosachev, a RIAC member, and attended by Committee Deputy Chairman Vladimir Jabarov, Chairman of ...
Just a few days ago the European Union has confirmed that the economic sanctions against the Russian Federation were extended for another year, or specifically up to 19th January 2016. Despite attempts to minimize the perceived impact of this policy on the economy of the EU ...
... Security Group
analytical centre, took place from 11-14 June 2015 in Lusławice, Poland.
The discussion was devoted to problems related to Eurasian energy security and the search for new opportunities for energy cooperation between the countries of Europe, Central Asia and other rapidly growing economies, including Russia. The topics addressed included proposals from the roundtable participants on the possible principles for the operation of the future EU Energy Union and the need to use the potential ...
... of the US and its NATO allies, while Russian missile tests and military exercises involving simulated use of nuclear weapons raise the specter of nuclear war. The US responds as its defense analysts discuss options for boosting nuclear deterrence in Europe to counter Russian threats.
President Vladimir Putin unambiguously warned the West in August 2014, as the fighting raged in eastern Ukraine, not to forget that "Russia is not to be messed with. I want to remind you that Russia is one of the ...
... discussion between the head of the National Bank of Poland, former Prime Minister Marek Belka and Minister of the Interior Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz. Belka offered to help the government if the Minister of Finance Jacek Rostowski resigned. Yet, according to European Union rules, national banks are not entitled to interfere in politics.
This scandal would hardly have spread beyond Poland, however, if Sikorski had not become involved. It turned out that, in June 2014, a waiter secretly recorded his conversation ...
On June 11-12, 2015 RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director General Andrey Kortunov spoke at the annual conference of the
European Council on Foreign Relations
held under the title "The Crisis in European Order".
The event was attended by over 100 ECFR members and 50 guests who discussed the plentiful challenges currently threatening the European Order, among them ...
Something happened there that none of us can cope with...
Hannah Arendt
The history of Europe has dark pages, so dark that their unearthing is viewed as being politically incorrect. Some say that the world has changed, including in discussion of the Holocaust. And this is hardly surprising because remembrance is associated with severe trauma ...