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This is the official name of the holiday in France that celebrates victory in World War II. On May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany signed the act of surrender in the headquarters of Anglo-American Commander-in-Chief General Dwight Eisenhower in Reims. This date is celebrated in France as the day when World War II ended in Europe. It should be noted that due to a demand by ...
The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the German foundation Friedrich Ebert Stiftung are starting a joint project to analyse the contemporary situation in the Middle East. The project aims to draw up practical recommendations for the Russian and German leadership on setting up constructive cooperation between the two countries in order to help resolve the crisis situation that has developed in the region since the start of the civil war in Syria. The project includes creating a bilateral...
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 ...
... Kortunov held a meeting with German MFA Russia Policy Coordinator Gernot Erler, a Bundestag member, accompanied by representatives of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Embassy in Moscow. Dr. Ivanov briefed the guests on RIAC’s current and future Germany-related activities and the Helsinki+40 project of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, in which RIAC acts as the key Russian contributor. The participants also exchanged views on urgent problems of European security and Russian-German relations.
... at the German Foreign Office, the EU is expected to change its strategy in Central Asia as a response to the EAEC’s enlargement. Performing a reality check and viewing Kazakhstan as “an anchor of stability” in Central Asian region, Germany is going to be an important advocate of such approach. Citing their president Nazarbaev’s message “Road to the Future”[3], Kazakhstan’s representatives reminded to the assembly “the years to come will be a period ...
Germany ready to continue the joint search for the crisis settlement On Thursday 4 December 2014 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation reported that “Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, who ...
... unveils, unsurprisingly, that there might not be anymore physical walls marking the ideal division of the countries in the continent, but undoubtedly a palpable invisible barrier is still present. In this article I will delve into the role played by Germany, currently the most influential country of the EU, in the international crisis with the Russian Federation, trying to outline a picture of the current issue. The celebration ceremony is the best starting point, and it was marked by the evident ...
On November 10-11, 2014, the Körber Foundation held its annual Berlin Foreign Policy Forum, a major international event on current international relations and Germany's role in European and global politics. The Forum attracted about 200 government officials, experts, journalists, German and international entrepreneurs and foreign diplomats accredited in Berlin. The participants were addressed by German Foreign ...
... ban [1] may set a precedent that could potentially change the German doctrine of non-interference in military conflicts. The decision must be viewed in the context of the reform of the Bundeswehr that started back in the 1990s and initially envisaged Germany’s participation in foreign missions. Simultaneously, changes were taking place in arms export control. Over the past two decades the country has made serious progress along this path, declaring its strategic goals to be Germany’s expanded ...
..., one of the main causes for the long war that followed. What do historians mean by German revanchism in the period between the two world wars of the 20th century? In reality, there are three factors to speak of. First are the excessive ambitions of Germany that from the very start had been propped up by military, economic and political successes. The second is the outcome of World War One, primarily the Treaty of Versailles that humiliated the defeated German nation. The third was in the all-out ...
| 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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