On June 30, 2015, RIAC hosted roundtable "The Visegrad Europe and Russia Today" used for presentation of report "
Russia and the Visegrad Group: the Ukrainian Challenge
" authored by a team headed by Lyubov Shishelina, Head of East European Studies at RAS Institute for European Studies.
The event was attended by Slovak Ambassador in Moscow Peter Priputen, Polish Ambassador Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz, Hungarian Ambassador Janos Balla, and Czech Ambassador Vladimir Remek, as well...
RIAC Report #22, 2015
The Eastern Partnership policy that triggered the Ukrainian crisis has provided ample opportunity to reflect on Russia–EU relations, alongside with evaluating cooperation between Russia and the Visegrad Group countries (also called the Visegrad Four or V4).
The Visegrad Four have taken on responsibility for the eastward enlargement of the European Union having become its members.
Authors:
L. N. Shishelina, Dr. of History (Lead Author and Compiler); A. V. Drynochkin, Dr. of...
On June 19, 2015, the Ukrainian Institute for Strategic Studies hosted presentation of collected works "
The Different Faces of Soft Power: The Baltic States and Eastern Neighborhood between Russia and the EU
" issued by Latvian Institute of International Affairs.
The publication offers a series of German, Latvian, Russian and Ukrainian articles on various aspects of the soft power use by Russia and EU countries toward the countries of Eastern Europe, as well as a detailed analysis of the...
Four months after the Minsk II accords, the Ukraine crisis continues to simmer, with occasional violent eruptions. The ceasefire in Donbass has not prevented some 1,000 people from losing their lives since February, adding to the previous fatality count of more than 5,000. Some of the heavy weapons ...
Diversification at any cost is still perceived as a ‘silver bullet’ for Ukraine’s energy security. The country’s dependence on Gazprom is seen as the key challenge for ensuring the country’s national security. However, inefficiency, mismanagement, the selective application of reform packages, and war in ...
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's economic development has been neither consistent, nor steady. During the decade 1989-1999, Ukraine's GDP fell by almost 61%, but in the 2000s and up to the global financial and economic crisis, GDP growth in Ukraine averaged about 7.5% per year ...
Amidst the negotiation of an attempted settlement to the East Ukraine armed conflict, a new stage of information and ideological confrontation appears to be unfolding between Russia and Ukraine, this time about their past. In fact, the fabric of the history of the Kievan Rus looks very much like a blanket, with ...
... hardly plausible. The PRC is working hard to build up its international levers, trying to catch up with the United Sates in the use of not just standard economic and military tools but also information assets.
Both the outbreak and deepening of the Ukraine crisis are absolutely contrary to Russia's interests.
Could you predict the outcome of the Ukraine crisis? Is there a way for Russia to accelerate a settlement and does it really fit Russian national interests?
Both the outbreak and deepening ...
... the principles of international law, the market economy and stable development. Even so, adherence to market economy principles is not tantamount to financing market reforms at Europe’s expense.
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Dmitry Danilov:
Ukraine: Non-Bloc Transit
Since 2014, the European instrument of neighbourhood and partnership has been replaced by the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI), the main source of financing for the countries of the Eastern Partnership, it having been ...
... the Germans during World War II or which witnessed fierce combat. In a number of post-Soviet states, WWII is no longer seen as an unambiguous battle of good against evil, or of defender against aggressor.
Victory Day revised
This is just as true for Ukraine. Already in the early post-Soviet period, a tendency emerged towards changing the perception of the war, which then became particularly noticeable after the Orange Revolution. Today, in the wake of the second Maidan and developments in Crimea ...
