... including defense diplomacy with various countries including Russia.
At the end of 2024, the navies of both countries conducted a joint military exercise. This marked a step forward in bilateral relations, following Indonesia’s earlier role in 2021 as an ASEAN member leading joint naval exercises between ASEAN member states and Russia.
To maintain regional stability, Indonesia has also established defense cooperation with other countries, including the United States, China, and Australia. Indonesia actively ...
... the possibility of launching direct air links between the two countries, and Russia reaffirmed its interest in implementing joint projects in the gas sector and peaceful nuclear cooperation. Finally, Anwar Ibrahim invited Vladimir Putin to attend the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur in October 2025, in Malaysia’s capacity as this year’s chair. In turn, the Russian president extended an invitation to the King of Malaysia to visit Russia at his convenience. Although the prospects for both visits are ...
... Security Council solidary voting on economic sanctions against Pyongyang and the six party negotiating mechanism. In the South East Asia region Moscow preferred not to take sides in local territorial disputes and to enhance bilateral relations with ASEAN nations, especially with Vietnam.
Ivan Timofeev:
Eurasian Security Architecture: Five Questions and Five Answers
Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine this approach to the region has changed in a significant way. There ...
... goal-setting mechanism. Like the entire Southeast Asia, Indonesia has never been a priority region for Russia and will hardly become one anytime soon. Thus, the issues discussed above trace back to Russia’s initial strategic planning. Jakarta and other ASEAN partners play an important but ancillary role in the Russian foreign trade strategy.
First, this refers to the partial diversification of Russian exports in certain product categories, including as a way to reduce the growing dependence of the national ...
... it takes
Modern Southeast Asia has moved beyond the state of a “boiling cauldron”
described
by American scholar Robert Kaplan, but it has not yet evolved into a clearly defined structure. Moreover, the nature of regional order and the place of ASEAN countries in the future global political system remain open questions. The emerging multipolarity offers several possible scenarios, in which centers of power, including collective ones, can form symbiotic relationships or act as a counterbalance ...
In this article, I will focus on the potential of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) cooperation with the United States of America (US) in Special Needs Inclusion. I have already mooted ideas on Special Needs Inclusion in two previous articles. One is the BRICS and Special Needs Inclusion policy, and the other is the desire for ...
... of all, there are the countries of the Middle East and Southeast Asia. In the first case, we are witnessing a serious restructuring of the entire balance of power in the region, and in the second case, a weakening of the previous integration centers (ASEAN) and an increase in the pressure that the growing because the fundamental conflict between China and the United States is exerting on countries. Since the autumn of 2023, Israel, with full support from the West, has entered into an energetic struggle ...
... with Western bureaucrats and therefore unreformable. There is no need to tear it down, but it will be necessary to build parallel bodies based on BRICS+, an expanded SCO, and their integration with the Organization of African Unity, the Arab League, ASEAN, and Mercosur. In the interim, it may be possible to create a permanent conference of these institutions within the UN.
China is the main external resource for Russia’s internal development, an ally and partner for the foreseeable future. Russia ...
Working Paper No. 83 / 2024
Working Paper No. 83 / 2024
The following working paper presents the results of foreign economic activity of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) following its establishment. The author carefully analyzes free trade zone agreements (FTZs) as a key tool for developing the Union’s foreign economic relations. Additionally, the author assesses the effectiveness of existing EAEU FTZ agreements with third countries, as well as the outlook for new agreements. This research aims...
... upward trend was characteristic of travel from Russia to other countries in the region as well, and all countries of Southeast Asia were visited by more than 2.5 million Russians in 2019 (see
Table 1
).
Table 1
. Number of Russian tourists traveling in ASEAN countries, 2020–2022 (people)
Country
2019
2020
2021
2022
Brunei Darussalam
No data
175
No data
No data
Cambodia
55,653
21,944
357
14,339
Indonesia
158,943
67,491
8,392
74,143
Laos
12,054
3,144
No data
4,410
Malaysia
79,984
28,694
399
33,003
...
