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German-Russian International Affairs Dialogue (GRID), the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Körber Foundation (Körber Stiftung, Germany) joint project held its third session in Berlin on 15–16 April. The event was attended by representatives of Russian and German analytical centres, business and the government. Discussions held during the meeting dealt with such issues ...
... given the current geopolitical tension and the sanctions regime. Gazprom.ru Nord Stream 1, 2 Although Nord Stream 2 involves companies from numerous countries, at the political level, the greatest amount of support for the project is being provided by Germany. The German federal authorities are actually in a difficult position here, as Berlin needs to avoid suspicion of non-compliance with EU energy market legislation while at the same time pursuing its own interests. By following a policy of not ...
... “German-Russian International Affairs Dialogue (GRID),” covers economic indicators of Russian-German relations in 2014-2015, and reveals the data on trade, mutual investment, tourism and academic exchange between the Russian Federation and Germany. Elena Alekseenkova, Vladimir Morozov, Maria Smekalova, and Alexander Teslya worked on this infographics project. The editorial staff of RIAC thanks its interns Spencer Vuksic and Yulia Solomatina for the project’s data collection. Russia ...
... the global arena. The project is based on the discussion within the joint German-Russian working group, that meets twice a year in Berlin and Moscow and confidentially discusses the current international affairs and issues of interest for Russia and Germany. The group comprises think-tanks and business representatives, as well as the former state officials. The following conference reports reflect the outcomes of working group discussions, that took place in 2015 in Berlin (June, 19-20) and Moscow ...
... tanker aircrafts and unmanned aircrafts with the support of the frigate of Bundesmarine in the light of confrontation of the governing CDU/CSU-SPD coalition and its opposition (the Left Party and the Alliance 90/the Green Party) is the harbinger of Germany’s departure from the policy of military non-intervention cultivated since G. Schroeder was Chancellor of Germany. Moreover, according to public opinion poll taken by the influential German news agency DPA, 71% of German respondents were ...
On December 5, 2015, RIAC and Korber Foundation met in Moscow within the framework of German-Russian International Affairs Dialog (GRID) to discuss under Chatham House rules the roles of Russia and Germany in the changing world and ways for restoring mutual trust damaged by the Ukraine crisis. The event was attended by key Russian and German foreign policy experts who focused on the dynamics of Russia-Germany relationship during the six months ...
... have bumped into a very interesting article by Marco Siddi dealing with the concept of identity building in international relations, an important branch of constructivist research theory. More specifically, the paper tried to give an explanation of why Germany, Lithuania and Poland have developed determinate national identities, and consequent policies, as a result of a process of confrontation with the image of an ‘other’, in this case Russia. The author debates that, even though all three ...
On October 28-30, 2015, RIAC Media and Government Relations Manager Anton Tsvetov was in Beijing at the 160th Bergerdorf Roundtable “New Players – Old Rules? The Global Order in Transition” organized by the Körber Foundation and International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The forum was attended by European politicians and researchers, representatives and top figures of political parties, foreign ministries, international organizations...
On October 23-24, 2015, RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeyev was in Berlin at conference “Back to the Future? Ideas and Strategies of retrograde Modernization in Russia and Post-Soviet Space” organized by the German Association of East European Studies within project network “Institutions and Institutional Change in Postsocialism.” The event was attended by prominent scholars and experts from West and East Europe, among them President of Munich Security Conference Wolfgang...
In July 2015, during a meeting with students at the Paul Friedrich Scheel school in Rostock, the Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany could not manage to take every refugee, making Palestinian refugee children cry. However, in mid-September 2015 the German government announced the suspension of the Dublin Regulation, and opened its doors to Syrian refugees. “There is no ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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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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