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CIS in 2017: Achievements, Challenges, Prospects

It is necessary to maintain the wide multilateral format of the CIS and to introduce new effective impulses towards cooperation Yulia Nikitina: The Post-Soviet Space in 2017 The development of cooperation within the CIS is an objective necessity for all member states of the Commonwealth. Notwithstanding the intensification ...

25.04.2017

Russia’s Political Agenda in the Post-Soviet Space

... transport infrastructure in their countries to join the Russia–China project to combine the EAEU and the Silk Road Economic Belt. “The inclusion of all the SCO members in this integration process, along with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), could become a prologue to the formation of greater Eurasian partnership,” Vladimir Putin said. The President’s proposal highlights Russia’s wish to be at the helm of the process to create a common economic space “from Lisbon to Vladivostok” ...

21.03.2017

Roundtable “The former Soviet Union 25 Years after: Past, Present and the Future of Ex-republics”

On February, 9 2017, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held the press-conference in the media centre of Rossiya Segodnya news agency, dedicated to the main trends and the prospects for the development of the post-Soviet space. The event was timed for the 25 th anniversary of the Soviet Union dissolution and the formation of new independent states on its territory. RIAC members and experts discussed the current situation in the former Soviet Union countries, political and economic prospects...

14.02.2017

CIS transformation seen as natural process

The transformation of the Commonwealth of Independent States is a natural process, Chairman of the Executive Committee – CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev told reporters on 7 June after the CIS Heads of Government Council meeting, BelTA has learned. “We had a candid and detailed discussion of issues related to the adaptation of the CIS to the realities of today's ...

20.06.2016

Belarus-Russia relations underpin cooperation in CIS

The interaction between Belarus and Russia within the framework of the Belarus-Russia Union State underpins the cooperation between the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee, CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev said after his meeting with Belarusian Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov, BelTA has learned. “This axis – Russia-Belarus – serves as a kind of a linchpin ...

10.02.2016

Eurasian Geo-Economics: A View from Russia

Russia in Eurasia: SWOT Analysis Russia and Eurasia: Main Trends The Eurasian vector is one of the key areas of Russian foreign policy today. Partnerships with major Asia-Pacific and South Asian countries, as well as cooperation with the CIS countries, has traditionally been a Russian priority. That priority has become more pronounced in recent years. It is manifested above all in the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), an international association of five former Soviet economies: ...

02.12.2015

CIS Heads of Government to Discuss Ukraine?

Interviews with Oleg Alexandrov and Yulia Yakusheva The agenda of the CIS Heads of Government Summit that will take place on 21 November 2014 features a wide range of economic, military-technical and humanitarian issues and the creation of the CIS Free Trade Zone. The Ukrainian crisis is not on the agenda, but it may be ...

21.11.2014
 

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