On December 15, 2017, Florence hosted negotiations between Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Paolo Del Bianco, President of Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation, focusing on a joint Russian-Italian project. Tatyana Bogdasarova, RIAC Program Coordinator, also took part in the negotiations.
On December 15, 2017, Florence hosted negotiations between Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Paolo Del Bianco, President of
Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation
, focusing on a joint Russian-Italian...
On December 13, 2017, Shanghai (PRC) hosted a meeting for Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) delegation and representatives of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS).
On December 13, 2017, Shanghai (PRC) hosted a meeting for Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) delegation and representatives of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (
SASS
).
RIAC delegation at the event included Timur Makhmutov,...
RIAC and VIF Report #34, 2017
In 2017, Russia and India celebrate the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations. Over the years, the two states have steadily developed mutually beneficial ties. Their cooperation has achieved the level of special and privileged strategic partnership. Regular contacts between the two leaders have become an established practice. However, in order to make full use of the collaboration potential, ties between Russia and India should be taken to a qualitatively new level...
RIAC Report #31 / 2017
This report is the result of a new stage in the research of the online English-language resources on the websites of Russian universities and is a follow-up to the initial report produced by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) entitled “Web Internationalization: Russian Universities” in 2015.
The authors developed a methodology for assessing the English-language websites of universities. The online resources of 47 universities were analysed and compared with...
There is a tendency to politicise what should be non-political
In discussions between experts from Russia and the EU there are often many areas of common interest discussed. Such discussions often include cooperation in science and technology, promoting regional and trans-border cooperation, and people-to-people contacts. In other words, both sides focus on the less political aspects of relations. However, in the last three years political tensions have had some negative ...
The concept of the "public intellectual" has a rich and colorful history. It began in the early twentieth century, when the new mass media catapulted intellectuals who were able to write for the general public to semi-stardom. The first wave included figures like Walter Lippmann—who coined the term "stereotype" and is widely considered the founder of media studies—and by the 1950s, public intellectuals as a species had become a powerful and influential force in the American cultural...
... anywhere, much less in Russia. The salaries in Russian research institutions are rarely high enough for a scholar to afford working just one job. IR people often teach at a university and part-time in one of the institutes within the Russian Academy of Sciences (which are essentially state-funded ‘universities without students’). The more enthusiastic also attend public speaking events and pen articles and op-eds for media outlets or reports and articles for think tanks (the ones in the Western ...
The task of integrating Russian social sciences and humanities into the global discourse remains for the most part unsolved
It is unlikely that anyone would doubt the value of international cooperation in the development of the social sciences and the humanities. The formation of global ...
On January, 30,
Andrey Kortunov
, RIAC Director General, gave a public lecture "Russia in the New World Order: Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies" at Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1). The lecture was attended by 300 people, including Sorbonne University professors and postgraduate students, Paris think-tanks representatives, journalists and diplomats. Louis Gautier, Head of Department for Current Strategic Challenges, and Justin Vaisse, director of the Policy Planning staff...
On January 23, 2017 the delegation of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) visited Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
The delegation included Li Yihai, Secretary-General of Think Tank Foundation at SASS, Pan Dawei, Director of the Center for Russia and Central Asia Studies at SASS, and Yang Bo, Senior ...
