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Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region and the Arctic Discussed in Copenhagen

On October 8, 2019, Copenhagen hosted a round table focusing on the relations between Russia and the EU in the Baltic Sea and the Arctic. The round table was organized by Danish Foreign Policy Society. On October 8, 2019, Copenhagen hosted a round table focusing on the relations between Russia and the EU in the Baltic Sea and the Arctic. The round table was organized by Danish Foreign Policy Society . The participants of the round table discussed cooperation between Russia and the countries of...

11.10.2019

Meeting with Croatian Ambassador Tomislav Car

The discussion focused on the upcoming Croatian presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2020 and plans for holding a conference organized jointly by RIAC and the embassy of the presiding country in 2020 with the participation of the EU Delegation to Russia On October 9, 2019, Tomislav Car, Ambassador ...

10.10.2019

Transatlantic Forum on Russia Fourth Edition (Rome)

... Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The forum is attended by experts, journalists, diplomats, public figures, and businessmen from Italy and foreign countries. The main topics of the discussion were pending issues in the “USA - European Union - Russia” triangle, the future of international conflicts, taking into account the ongoing global technological revolution, the factor of China in relations between the West and Russia. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Dmitry ...

09.10.2019

20 Years of Vladimir Putin: How Russian Foreign Policy Has Changed

Dmitry Trenin on Russia's successes abroad and why resisting NATO expansion to the east was a fundamental mistake. Vladimir Putin has been in power for 20 years, but the time has not yet come to pass final judgment on his rule, including in the foreign policy sphere. The situation is dynamic, and the future, as always, unpredictable, but at the time of writing Putin has almost five years left of his current mandate — and it appears he will continue to be an influential political figure in Russia...

09.10.2019

Reducing Risks and Cutting Costs: The Art of Confrontation Management

Does Russia’s relative stability imply that Moscow will be by default the proactive side in its relationship with the European Union? One of the many complicating factors in EU-Russia relations is the asynchrony of their respective political cycles. The European Union has already entered a period of fundamental political and institutional changes, while the Russian ...

07.10.2019

Weimar 2.0 and Russia

The EU/Germany are now on the side of democracy and social justice, and the Anglo-Americans throw themselves and all the rest into the dark Hobbesian world of the period between two wars. How should Russia position herself in this context? Power is always a sophisticated and ambiguous exercise in its own disappearance. Les Strategies Fatales, Jean Baudrillard For a number of years already in the West, and in Europe in particular, they talk of Weimar or Weimar syndrome alluding to the rise of the...

30.09.2019

Round Table “What Difference Will Brexit Make To Britain And The EU?”

On October 10, 2019, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hold the round table “What Difference Will Brexit Make To Britain And The EU?” with Ian Bond, Director of the Foreign Policy Department of the London Center for European Reform . It is still unclear how the UK will leave the EU, and whether British prime minister Boris Johnson will be able to deliver on his promise to take the UK out of the EU on 31 October. But Brexit is certain to have a major impact on the UK. Over the last 46...

20.09.2019

Meeting with Sberbank Institutional Investors from the USA and Great Britain

... the possibilities of progress in resolving the Ukrainian crisis, and the prospects for Russia-China interaction. Particular attention was paid to the analysis of the possible evolution of the anti-Russian sanctions policy of the United States and the European Union, as well as the adoption of other restrictive measures that could have a significant negative impact on the development of Russia's economy and Russia's involvement in global financial and economic processes.

15.09.2019

Most of the Strategic Challenges for Russia and the EU Are Likely to Come from the Changing International Context

... you see EUREN's value being added in this debate? Sabine Fischer, IvanTimofeev: Selective Engagement between the EU and Russia — I would not go as far as to state that there is no prospect of common ground on security matters between Russia and the European Union. For the time being, opportunities are indeed limited, but they are still broader than those between Russia and NATO. The Union is not particularly strong on hard security matters, but we have a rising agenda of nonconventional security ...

13.09.2019

RIAC, ISPI, and Italian Foreign Ministry Discuss the Role for International Actors in MENA Crises

On September 10, 2019, in Moscow, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), in cooperation with the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy, held an international seminar “From Battlefields to Negotiation tables. What Role for International Actors in MENA Crises.” On September 10, 2019, in Moscow, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), in cooperation with the Italian Institute for International...

12.09.2019
 

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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