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On December, 3, 2024, RIAC hosted a roundtable titled US-China Competition: Opportunities for Russia On December, 3, 2024, RIAC hosted a roundtable titled US-China Competition: Opportunities for Russia. The discussion featured the presentation of an eponymous book produced by the authors of the Center for Applied Analysis of Global Transformations ...
Emotion and frustration seem to be taking over the political world, but especially so in the UK Introduction This paper attempts to uncover why England (and later the United Kingdom) has a deep historical dislike of Russia and Russian society. Starting with William Pitt’s verbal attack on Russia in 1791, the same sentiments moved onto the Dardanelles, the so-called “Great Game”, the Crimean War, the acquisition of Cyprus, Mackinder’s obsession with Russia,...
... born. She often crossed the river with my mother to what was then Übermemel, today’s Panemuné, to shop at the market there. Borders were open, there was a lively exchange – it was part of normal daily life. The Lithuanian government now fears a Russian attack. Peace seems a long way off. And yet there is peace. All we have to do is look closely. The Nemunas (Memel) River with a view of Kaliningrad oblast/Königsberg, summer 2023 West There’s also a lot of excitement on the “Western front....
... test” of the latest Oreshnik missile system was carried out with a strike on the territory of Ukraine. The latter will be discussed in greater detail. Background The Stabilizing “Basic Principles”: Moscow Reduces Options for Pre-Nuclear Escalation. Russia’s leading experts on the new Russia’s nuclear doctrine It so happened: Russia was walking (and even pushed) to the Oreshnik launch for quite a long time. Without going too deep into history, there are two main factors worth focusing on. In ...
The breakdown of private Russia-NATO diplomacy increases the risks of a terrible event The ongoing standoff over Ukraine is increasingly becoming a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO, raising serious concerns about the risk of nuclear escalation. In this new phase,...
Kiev is the most vulnerable party in any development of the situation—both radical and basic. The question is the price for all participants. The price for Ukraine will be the highest Russia and the West are going through another stage of military-political escalation. Its immediate indicator was Ukraine’s use of American and British missile systems to strike Russian territory, the emergence of Moscow’s new nuclear doctrine, the ...
... possible foundations of international cooperation in Greater Eurasia. . We see that in the case of potential international cooperation in Greater Eurasia, none of the political factors mentioned in the previous section function. For those states that Russia calls upon to create some new international reality, there is no unifying external threat. Their political elites are not in the position of a besieged fortress, as was the case with the European colonial powers or the pided Germany in the second ...
Russia’s leading experts on the new Russia’s nuclear doctrine On November 19, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order Approving the Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence. The new ...
... in one of his early works, quite rightly points out that the basis of a relatively stable order is the mutual recognition of legitimacy by its participants. By recognising each other’s legitimacy, the largest European powers – Austria, Britain, Russia, Prussia and royal France – directly or indirectly acted together against the internal enemy, i.e., a potential revolution against their order. Thus, the external enemy of the countries of the Vienna order was revolution as such: an attempt by ...
... of international relations is the struggle of democracies against autocracies. This does not mean ideological neutrality. The idea of the ‘free world’ and criticism of ‘communism’ (in which they include China, Cuba, Venezuela, and by inertia, Russia) plays an important role in the thinking of many Republicans. But the defining factor is something else – intolerance of those who for various reasons do not accept American supremacy. Trump’s choice for national security adviser, Michael Waltz,...
