The conference aims to provide a detailed analysis of the oil and gas markets of Central and Eastern Europe – Belarus, Visegrad countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary), Romania, Bulgaria, the Baltic states, Ukraine, the European part of Russia both in terms of regional retail, commercial and industrial consumption and in the context of international innovative pipeline and refining projects. The Republic of Belarus is the country with a modern, advanced,...
Predicting how the situation surrounding the conflict in Eastern Ukraine will develop and determining what the architecture of Russia–Ukraine relations moving forward will look like are both reasonably difficult tasks, because the course of events is influenced by a number of objective and subjective factors....
... government has long been unstable, and rumors about his possible resignation of the post of Prime Minister have surfaced every so often. This time he seems to be truly leaving. RIAC expert shares his insights on who might become the next Prime Minister of Ukraine, and what Yatsenyuk’s resignation could mean for Russia.
Initially, there are three possible scenarios. A. Yatsenyuk could stay for some time and retain his position, but this could prompt early elections, most likely in the autumn of 2016,...
On March 21, 2016
London School of Economics
together with Berlin's
Hertie School of Governance
and German
Dahrendorf Forum
held an international seminar “The EU, Russia and Ukraine: Finding Ways to Get Out of the Deadlock and Move Forward.”
Experts from the UK, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Ukraine and Russia discussed the current problems and possible scenarios of relations development in the EU-Russia-Ukraine triangle....
... Disorder", March 19th, 2016.
Igor Ivanov’s Address to the German Marshall Fund 2016
Brussels Forum
"A World Beyond Disorder", March 19th, 2016.
Ladies and gentlemen,
For more than two years dramatic developments in and around Ukraine remain the focal point of the European politics. Even the bloody conflict in Syria and the migration crisis in Europe could not put Ukraine on a back burner.
It would not be an over exaggeration to say that the Ukrainian crisis and its final resolution ...
... the project, thus completing the legal registration of the joint venture that would build the gas pipeline.
It is worth noting that Berlin repeatedly stated that one of the requirements for the completion of the Nord Stream 2 project was to
preserve Ukraine’s status as a transit country after 2019
. Gazprom had been voicing its desire to stop transporting gas via Ukraine for years. However, after June 2015, against the backdrop of intensive discussions on the parameters of Nord Stream 2, the ...
On February 28 - March 3, 2016 Brussels was the venue of the 4
th
Meeting of Young Experts Group on Ukraine Settlement and Euro-Atlantic Security.
The Group discussed at the meeting the issues of terrorism, the challenges associated with the migration crisis in Europe, the relations between Russia and the EU, Russia and NATO, the crisis in Ukraine and ...
... republics in which the rights and freedoms of an individual of any nationality will be fully guaranteed.” This was Mikhail Gorbachev’s final attempt to stop the disintegration of a major country. Nine months later, following a referendum on Ukraine’s independence on December 1st, the Soviet Union officially ceased to exist. The Ukrainians, of whom more than 70 percent had voted to preserve the Soviet Union in the March referendum, this time voted 90 percent in favour of independence....
... helicopter. If we compare the numbers of the two countries’ warplanes and the intensity of their sorties, we find the accident rates for the two approximately equal overall.
REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Antonov Serial Production Plant
Cessation of ties with Ukraine.
This did indeed have a negative impact on the plans to rearm the air force, but the expert exaggerates the significance of this issue. The production of helicopters in Russia continues at the same rate as before. Supplies of helicopter engines ...
... intensify cooperation within the Visegrad Group, including in the military sphere (for example, through more frequent military exercises), and actively promoting the development of cross-border interregional and European projects, which could also include Ukraine.
In addition, Poland will likely try to foster a closer relationship with Romania, a country that could neutralize a possible
Fronde
among Poland’s partners in the Visegrad Group, and which has strained relations with Moscow. This scenario ...
