... spending.
Following their 2010 agreement
, they are going to build joint centers for servicing their nuclear arsenals. The French bases were also
seen
as locations for the temporary basing of British SSBNs Vanguard if Scotland was to cede from the United Kingdom. However, both sides stress their intention to separately develop warheads and launchers.
The funniest episode in the French-British "cooperation" is known to have taken place late at night on February 3, 2009, when
a Vanguard ...
On December 21, 2015 RIAC Director General Andrei Kortunov, Dmitry Trenin, RIAC member and Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, Igor Yurgens, RIAC member, President of Russian Union of Insurers and Board member at Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, as well as chairman of the public organization "Vibor Rossii" Vladimir Ryzhkov met with UK Minister of State for Europe David Lidington who is now in Moscow.
The meeting was attended by British Ambassador to Russia Tim Barrow...
Rule, Britannia?
On November 23, Prime Minister David Cameron was in Parliament to present the latest update of the Strategic Defense and Security Review (SDSR), the document that lays the foundation for the defense policies of the United Kingdom in the decade to come. Contrary to prevailing expectations, the paper is openly belligerent.
The previous
version
of the SDSR was released in 2010 with the aim of optimizing and cutting the national forces after the active phase of operations ...
... administrated by the British governor of the Falkland Islands (archipelago in the south-west part of the Atlantic ocean).
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. Tomczak M., Godfrey J.S. Regional Oceanography: An Introduction. N.Y.: Pergamon, 1994.
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. Claims have been made by Argentina and the United Kingdom (the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands) as well as Argentina and Chile (islands of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago). Norway, despite the protests of the Soviet Union and the United States, upheld the royal decree ...
On June 25, 2015, the residence of the British ambassador in Moscow hosted a meeting of RIAC members with Michael Tatham, Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia at Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Moderated by Deputy Head of Mission at British Embassy to Moscow Martin Harris, the event was attended by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, Director of RAS Institute for European Studies Alexey Gromyko and Director of Moscow Carnegie Center Dmitry Trenin, both RIAC members, as well as Professor...
Modernization of naval strategic nuclear forces, including nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), is a key strategic stability issue in the Russia-U.S. relationship. Whereas Russia launched the process quite a while ago and boasts three Project 955 submarines, the United States is only just developing its new SSBN. This article discusses the status of the American nuclear submarine program and problems it may face.
Top Priority
The...
The 70th anniversary of the end of World War II is a major celebration for the United Kingdom. The British people commemorate the victims of this world war. Though, in the spring of 2015, the British public was preoccupied with the election campaign (the general election was held on the eve of the VE Day celebrations, on 7 May 2015),...
Britain, as an ally in the anti-German coalition, made an invaluable contribution to the victory in World War II. As in the rest of Europe, Victory Day in the United Kingdom is celebrated on 8 May, not 9 May. This is a day of remembrance celebrated every year with annual parades and events dedicated to those killed in the terrible war of 1939-1945. Yet, for Britain, World War II is inseparably linked to World ...
In 2016 the British government will have to decide on the future of its nuclear deterrent. Before then however, there is a national election (to be held on May, 7, 2015) to determine the composition of those decision-makers tasked with the job. While it appears likely that the deterrent will undergo modernisation, the issue is gaining more political attention and experiencing heightened scrutiny.
The UK has initiated a process of modernising its nuclear deterrent capability. Its current fleet of...
It has recently been reported that France, Germany and Britain are joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a major Chinese initiative launched in 2013, which now incorporates 32 states, five of them in Europe, plus New Zealand. Russia is so far outside the process, which complicates its rapprochement with Asian states. We offer the insights of
Yaroslav Lisovolik
, Chief Economist and Director of Analytic Department at Deutsche Bank AG in Russia.
How would you comment the decision...
