... on the impact of Russia’s military operation on the territory of Ukraine on the economic and political dynamics of the Middle East region, including global prices for hydrocarbons, food imports by the countries of the region, mediation attempts by Turkey and Israel, the fate of the multilateral nuclear deal with Iran, the future of the conflict in Syria, etc.. Russian side was represented by Irina Zvyagelskaya, RIAC Member, Head of the Center for the Middle East Studies at RAS IMEMO, Professor ...
... e.g. the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) or the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), and the Russian Federation has stipulated several bilateral agreements on the construction of nuclear plants in several countries, such as Turkey and Finland, thus even beyond the traditional Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) clients. In 2020, Rosatom’s revenues from foreign orders of NPP amounted at 138 billion USD, highlighting the economic potential of a switch of energy relations ...
A path forward would be to strengthen the strategic alliance between Russia and Armenia, with the aim of preventing Turkey, and by extension NATO, from establishing any domination in the post-Soviet Transcaucasia
This July will mark the 300th anniversary of
Peter the Great’s
Caspian campaign. The campaign proved costly for the Russian emperor in terms of lives ...
On March 1, 2022, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), together with the International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS), will organize the round table “Views of Russia and Turkey on the Current Situation in Central Asia”
On March 1, 2022, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), together with the International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS), will organize the round table “Views ...
... opinion before the 2022 presidential elections in France, Mali must consider its own political, security and foreign policy realities in 2022, too. Namely, through security, economic, and diplomatic cooperation with emerging countries like Russia and Turkey. Two countries which may serve as “lifeboats” from this Sahelian storm of instability as well as diplomatic upheavals, which have plagued Mali’s interim government from late-2021 into 2022.
Isolated in a storm of instability
Since the last ...
Turkey’s political plans for Central Asia appear to be largely hyperbolic and not viable in the long run
Recently, the attention of the international community has been focused on Central Asia. This is largely due to events that are directly or indirectly ...
...
The meeting was attended by Natalya Vyakhireva, PhD in Political Science, RIAC Program Manager, as well as RIAC experts Pavel Kanevsky and Pavel Sharikov. The participants of the online meeting included young experts from Russia, the CIS countries, Turkey, representatives of NGOs, think tanks, and universities.
The meeting resulted in adopting a
joint statement
by the members of the group.
...
Pavel Kanevskiy, Associate Professor, Political Sciences, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia
Henrik Larsen, Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the ETH Zürich, Denmark
Amélie Lohmann, Germany/France/US
Habibe Özdal, Turkey
Zach Paikin, Researcher, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Canada
Diāna Potjomkina, Latvia
Leon Ratz, Leon Ratz, Senior Program Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative, US
Anna Roessing, PhD Candidate, Germany
Bartosz Rydliński, Poland
Gent ...
No matter how well the cooperation between Ankara and Kiev may develop, Erdogan will not forget about the “intermediary” role between Ukraine and Russia
On February 3, 2022, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan made an official visit to Ukraine, during which he managed to put his signature to a Turkey–Ukraine free trade agreement following more than
ten years
of negotiations on the provisions of the document. But this was not the ...
... post-Soviet republics also strive to enter the alliance. Elements of the US National Missile Defence system are deployed near Russian borders. All the major powers try to increase their influence in Eurasia, including the regional ones—China, Iran, Turkey, etc. Russia is forced into all-round defence.
Meanwhile, the competition between ‘old powers,’ including the US and its European allies, with the new pretenders—China, India, Iran and others—tends to become more and more intensive. Besides ...
