On September 18, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI) co-hosted a roundtable titled "Russia-Mexico Relations: A View from Moscow and Mexico City"
On September 18, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI) co-hosted a roundtable titled "Russia-Mexico Relations: A View from Moscow and Mexico City".
The event was opened with welcoming remarks...
... Knowledge-Rich Nations to scramble for relevance.
Global trade pivots on this divide as illuminated nations, radiant with entrepreneurial energy, outshine dark-in-debt nations mired in financial chaos and bureaucratic malaise. The silent global political economy, entangled in debt and crypto escapism, sinks Knowledge-Rich Nations, blind to the SME-driven revolutions reshaping commerce. From this upheaval emerges a new economic superpower, the National Mobilization of Entrepreneurialism, rejecting outdated ...
RIAC and Synergia Foundation Report No. 103 / 2025
RIAC and Synergia Foundation Report No. 103 / 2025
Agricultural cooperation has been one of the pillars of Russia-India relations for decades. Both countries are leading players in the global agricultural market, however they do not compete with each other and rather enjoy wide opportunities for cooperation. The following report describes historic background of Russia-India interaction in agriculture, assesses the current dynamics and achievements...
... massive global giants that permanently alter the nation's economic landscape. How will this translate in Western economies, which have been visibly failing with SME growth for the last few decades in this regard?
Nations get lost when the political economy resembles ice hockey, played on football fields without ice or hockey sticks, and with tennis rackets under volleyball rules. A national economic emergency should be declared.
Core Framework: The Mandatory Test
As identified by the Mindset Hypothesis,...
... Afghanistan's entire financial system. This action came after decades of U.S. economic dominance in Afghanistan, where foreign aid constituted 75% of the national budget during the
2001-2021 period
.
Unlike Iran's sanctions—which primarily affected its own economy—these measures against Afghanistan directly destroyed the country's governance capacity, banking infrastructure, and humanitarian lifelines, creating the precise conditions that forced
500,000
Afghans to seek refuge in Iran during 2021 alone....
... set of long-standing political problems (for example, the Taiwan issue), ideological differences (China maintains its commitment to socialism based on a strong civilisational foundation and national interests) and increasingly tough competition in the economy and finance (China is pursuing industry, technology and finance in its own way). Such problems in relations between Brazil and the US are simply difficult to imagine at the current stage. At the recent BRICS summit, the country's leadership pursued ...
... commerce grants each entrepreneur access to an unlimited currency-printing machine to expand. Imagine a dark, debt-ridden, and dying business model being practiced by all others, where debt limits are used as real collateral to prop up the national economy, and towering debt is seen as a symbol of success. Neither any sustainable enterprise nor an economy will survive under such a model. Entrepreneurial mysticism has a fundamental fiscal philosophy spanning millennia, in which productivity, performance,...
Working Paper No. 92 / 2025
Working Paper No. 92 / 2025
The following working paper examines the relationship between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It includes a detailed assessment of trade and economic ties between the two associations, identifying the key priorities and interests of EAEU member states in developing trade and economic relations with ASEAN countries. The paper also attempts to map ways in which the EAEU and ASEAN can...
Authors: Eugene Kornov, Master’s degree student, Basic Department of Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University
Sophie Klimova, Master’s degree student, Basic Department of Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University
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On June 25, 2025 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR) co-organized the round table “EAEU 2025+: Economic and Social Dimensions” in Minsk, Belarus
On June 25, 2025 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR) co-organized the round table “EAEU 2025+: Economic and Social Dimensions” in Minsk, Belarus. The event was held on the sidelines of the regular meeting of the Eurasian...
