... votes; Russia’s propaganda machine went intensely against Remain and for Brexit in the UK’s big vote this year and its efforts were clearly crucial in swaying votes in what was an intensely close decision; Russia has also been active in non-NATO Sweden this year, particularly when it was voting on closer ties with NATO; Finland, which shares a huge border with Russia, has also seen a surge in Russian disinformation; early in November, it even became apparent that Russia may have even been ...
... which is based on a survey of leading defense and security experts from the United States, Russia, and Europe, puts forward nine urgent and practical recommendations to ensure that we avoid the worst kind of catastrophe: a nuclear incident involving NATO and Russian forces. The measures are focused on preventing accidents, enhancing predictability, and building confidence. These include recommendations to fly military aircraft with transponders turned on, to establish “safe distance” protocols ...
... Global Order after the Cold War». About forty experts, journalists and diplomats from Russia, the USA, Bulgaria, Greece, the UK, and Turkey took part in the conference.
The participants discussed the Western and Russian approach to the history of NATO expansion, the promotion of democracy as a geopolitical tool, «Color Revolutions» and «Arab Spring», Ukrainian crisis narrative clash, diplomacy and public policy interaction, the role of hacking in discovering secret agendas,...
On December 2 Warsaw hosted a meeting of the Working Group for the Building a Greater Europe project. The meeting attendees discussed the results of NATO Summit in Warsaw, Russia-NATO relations, and the prospects for Russia -West relations development in 2017.
RIAC was represented by Ivan TImofeev, Director of Programs, RIAC. The meeting was also attended by Adam Rotfeld, former Minister of Foreign ...
The Baltic Scenarios
The Baltic of today is a most intricate area for Russia-NATO interaction. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, all of them members of the alliance, serve as its frontier zone in direct contact with its Eastern neighbour. Even before the Ukrainian crisis, these countries had been sceptical about security ...
... “talk sense” into Trump with regard to Euro-Atlantic security have caused considerable surprise among outside observers. Among them, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s attempt to explain to the US president-elect the importance of NATO, or the German defense minister’s remarks that NATO cannot be approached as a business. Do these seasoned officials really believe that the personal factor has such huge import for the future of Euro-Atlantic security?
It appears that their ...
... stability, possible strides in the development of the relations of the three powers in the course of the results of the U.S. presidential elections, and the meaning of the outlined geopolitical trends in the Asia-Pacific Region for the EU Member States and NATO.
New threads in the Team Trump/Team Putin tangled web show Manafort and Page linked to each other as part of a Russian plot to control Ukraine and also show a mutual Russian mafia godfather linking them with each other and Trump, providing even deeper and more fertile ground on which to question Trump’s pro-Russia, Pro-Putin positions and their origins. Author's note: this is the most important article I have ever written in my life; please share with as many people as possible as soon...
... an undeclared tender for a new contract with the Trump administration
For the EU, Donald Trump’s ascension to power poses a challenge, although European leaders are not openly talking about it. The EU is seriously concerned not so much about NATO as a forum for a daily political dialogue with the United States as about the future substance of the north-Atlantic alliance’s policy. Trump has warned the EU that “business as usual” is unacceptable. Could a new “Trump Doctrine” ...
... investment partnership were mentioned as areas in which the strategic partnership and long-term cooperation must be continued. As we can see, there are all rather general statements without any specifics.
Areas of cooperation with the U.S. as part of NATO, particularly on the eastern flank, in the context of the Iranian nuclear programme and opposing China’s foreign economic expansion, are unclear now. Issues surrounding the coordination of a policy concerning Russia, including with respect ...
