... recent years, Georgia has been just about the only country in the region that continues to display lofty ambitions in its relations with the European Union while at the same time making a number of practical changes in public administration and the economy in keeping with Georgia’s commitment to “political association and economic integration” with the European Union. In this context, one wonders if Georgia is in a position to become the new “success story” of the Eastern Partnership against ...
... its considerable economic potential. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), 63 per cent of the population lives on less than $2 a day (by purchasing power parity). A prolonged war and the associated disruptions and human losses sent the economy into a downward spiral (in 1995, its GDP was 41 per cent of its 1991 level). The Tajikistani economy is one of the weakest in Central Asia. The republic’s strong point is in its proven reserves of silver, lead, zinc and aluminium ores
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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...
The relations framework established during General de Gaulle’s 1966 visit to Russia allowed the countries to withstand the trial by sanctions
300 years of Russia-France diplomatic relations have been marked by a lot of events that seriously affected their development.
The interest for Russia seems to have reduced among the French elite, involved in foreign policy making. Leading French media create quite a negative image of Russia. However, the relations framework established during General de...
... executive branch, and to create a true system of checks and balances in order to prevent the concentration and misuse of power for personal gain by a single person. In this regard, the unprecedented “criminalization” of the government sector of the economy that took place during Bakiyev’s “inter-revolution” presidency and his family’s rule served both as a potent “vaccination” against any authoritarian leanings in the society, as well as an impetus for radically changing the form of ...
... an attempt by Putin to create a puppet state out of an Assad-run country to use as an additional ally on the negotiating table against NATO and so on. What Americans fail to recognize, however, is just how important a stable Syria is for the Russian economy, and that having Assad in power, regardless of just how far under Putin’s control the man is, is possibly the sole end goal of Russia.Tartous Port, Syria Ever since the days of the Roman Empire, the region of Syria has been an incredibly wealthy ...
... context, it must be noted the basic problem in the modern world on a level relationship between sustainable development and economic growth are:The problem of the gap between the rich and the poor. Thus we must ask:""Do we in the era of the economy for the economy and not for the community?""Far from theorizing and according to the statistics and data on the economic gap (If we take into account that the largest percentage of citizens are workers or employees are gainfully employed),...
... projects by cutting social packages (the first target was Obamacare). In order to implement this strategy, D. Trump will need an obedient Federal Reserve System that has hitherto not shown any flexibility.
D. Trump’s idea to make the American economy work for itself will accumulate many interest groups, which might lead to the creation of a coalition: automobile and energy corporations; defense industry; aviation, space, and ship production branches; steelmaking industry, etc. The election ...
... members and experts comment on the vital domestic and foreign policy issues the U.S.A. is going to face in the next four years.
Candidate Trump and President Trump
Aleksey Arbatov
, Head of the Center for International Security of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAN), RIAC member
President Trump will significantly differ from Candidate Trump. First, one should not forget the role of Congress, which is in fact very big. What is more, there is not many of those with a ...
... Degradation
By the time of the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine ranked second among the Soviet republics in terms of economic potential after Russia. This potential should have objectively been transformed with the country switching to the free-market economy model. Nevertheless, the very transition to that model proved an overall failure. The Ukrainian economy has developed in an obviously non-linear manner since 1991. From the beginning of the 2000s and up until the onset of the global financial ...
