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On September 21-24, Sarajevo was the venue of the 3rd Meeting of Young Experts' Group on Ukraine Settlement and Euro-Atlantic Security, which also covered economic issues and supremacy of law. The group will continue to work along these three tracks. The event was attended by young leaders from Ukraine, Europe, Russia and the United States,...
MOSCOW – More than 18 months after former President Viktor Yanukovych was driven from power (and into exile), the crisis in Ukraine is at a stalemate. Crimea has been reabsorbed by Russia (in what many consider an annexation); much of eastern Ukraine is held by pro-Russia rebels; and relations between the West and Russia are more tense than at any time since the early days ...
On August 26, 2015, the Russian International Affairs Council held a roundtable on intermediate effects of the 1st Minsk Agreement. The event was opened by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and attended by authors of RIAC working paper The Ukraine Challenge for Russia – Assistant Professor of Post-Soviet Space Chair at Russian State University for Humanities Alexander Gushchin, Assistant Professor of Foreign Regions and Foreign Policy Studies at Russian State University for Humanities ...
The US space agency has forked out $490m for six seats for its astronauts to get to the ISS on board one of the Russian Federal Space Agency's (Roscosmos) Soyuz spacecraft. Nasa's space shuttles were stopped in 2011 as the organisation set about sending its astronauts to the ISS on board privately developed spacecrafts like SpaceX. However, a shortfall in funding from the US Congress has meant the space agency is down about a billion dollars on what it requested since 2011. As a result, the first...
... relations to the bare minimum that must exist between states. It is difficult to name a single country with which Russia does not have some kind of communication, dialogue or cooperation, especially among its neighbours. Despite the obvious difficulties, Ukraine maintains trade and diplomatic relations with Russia, and there are regular flights between Kiev and Moscow. Georgia has allowed the same kind of relations to continue. As for the situation in Ukraine, Georgia unequivocally supports the territorial ...
... public has focused on the military aspects, although the problem is multidimensional and armed confrontation breaking out in Transnistria is unlikely. A Moldovan-Ukrainian Coalition Emerges Experts have been closely watching the TMR since last May when Ukraine terminated the agreement on the transit of Russian troops to Transnistria through its territory, [1] an unsurprising step given the fierce tensions between Moscow and Kiev. Ukrainian leaders will not continue to cooperate with the Kremlin in such ...
Working paper 24/2015 The events in Ukraine in 2013-2014 did not reveal any new, deep-rooted contradictions between Kiev and Moscow; they had existed long before, albeit not so acutely. They have, however, triggered the fiercest confrontation between the two biggest countries in the post-Soviet ...
In June 2015 the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) published a report entitled “Russia’s Hybrid War in Ukraine: Breaking the enemy’s ability to resist”, by András Rácz, a senior research fellow at the institute [1] . As the title indicates, the subject of the paper is the phenomenon of “hybrid war”. Following Russia’s accession of Crimea and ...
On July 2, 2015, the Russian International Affairs Council held roundtable "Prospects for Russia-Ukraine Relations" featuring presentation of RIAC's working paper " Ukrainian Challenge for Russia ". Opening the event, RIAC Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov stressed the significance of an expert analysis for the Ukraine crisis ...
BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – The European Union is trying to maintain the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine for politically motivated reasons, Russian Envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said. "I think they have the ultimate goal of keeping the Ukrainian transit, which is a purely political stance. It does not have any economic basis," he said,...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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