Search: European Union,Russia (500 materials)

 

Mean Girls and Cybersecurity

Comments on the ELN’s report “Living in (Digital) Denial: Russia’s Approach to Cyber Deterrence” European Leadership Network has recently issued a new report analyzing the concept of Russia’s cyber deterrence. The document offers quite picturesque description and analysis of Russia’s policy of denial ...

27.07.2018

Meeting between Putin and Trump — Another Reason for Split within the EU?

... least, there were far more positives to be taken from the meeting between Trump and Putin than from the recent NATO Summit. A number of European media outlets noted that Trump treated Putin as his equal, which would suggest that the policy of isolating Russia, an approach that the European Union had been counting on since it introduced sanctions in 2014, has effectively failed. Fifth . Brussels senses a weakening of solidarity within the European Union regarding relations with Russia and a willingness of a number of its member ...

23.07.2018

European Experts on Russia-EU Ties and FIFA 2018

Interview with Kadri Liik and Nicolas de Pedro In the midst of FIFA 2018 hosted in various Russian cities, RIAC welcomed another round of the EU–Russia Expert Network on Foreign Policy. RIAC Website editor Maria Smekalova talks migration, bilateral relations, and football matters with Kadri Liik , Senior Policy Fellow at ECFR, and Nicolas ...

10.07.2018

Russian and EU Experts Discuss a Joint Report within EU-Russia Experts Network Project

On July 5¬–6, 2018, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Delegation of the European Union to Russia held a meeting to discuss the text of the joint report prepared by the Russian and EU experts on the results of the project on creation of EU-Russia Experts Network. On July 5­–6, 2018, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the ...

09.07.2018

ECFR Expert Meeting on EU-Russia Relations

On July 2–3, 2018, Vienna hosted a European Council on Foreign Relations expert meeting on current relations between the European Union and Russia. On July 2–3, 2018, Vienna hosted a European Council on Foreign Relations expert meeting on current relations between the European Union and Russia. The meeting was attended by experts, diplomats and officials from several European countries,...

03.07.2018

The Fight for Nord Stream 2: The Interests of all the Players Involved

... opponents were expecting European companies to abandon the project in light of these circumstances. However, the Council of the European Union Legal Service pointed out that expanding the provisions of the Third Energy Package to include Nord Stream 2 was ... ... impossible. The first reason is that the gas pipeline would lead to Gazprom having a majority stake in the European market – Russia would inflate prices and/or demand that the countries in Europe bend to its political will under the threat of cutting ...

02.07.2018

Interview to British Channel 4

... world order. As for the Russian Federation, it is our biggest trade partner in spite of the fact that after the unfortunate developments and the wrongly understood interpretation of what the coup d’état is. The volume of trade since 2014 between Russia and the European Union went down 50%, but it is still more than $250bn and it is our number one trading partner, as a collective, as a Union. But the European Union certainly is now fighting to make sure that it is not lost in this new world order that is being ...

02.07.2018

Fighting Sanctions: From Legislation to Strategy

... legislation sparked a broad public response while still at the drafting stage. Eventually the lawmakers downplayed the most controversial clauses on the import of medicines and other sensitive issues. The new law authorizes the president to respond to anti-Russia sanctions in many ways. The main problem today is how to devise a strategy for its application and develop an effective policy of counteraction. A simple set of technical measures to restrict trade is unlikely to have a significant effect. What ...

02.07.2018

RIAC at IAI Expert Meeting «Russia and the West: What future for the European Security Architecture and the OSCE?»

... Security Architecture and the OSCE?» The meeting, timed to the middle of the Italian Chairmanship in the OSCE, was devoted to the current state and possible areas for the development of the Organization, the prospects for convergence of the positions of Russia and the West on issues of European security, the correlation of the OSCE potential with the capabilities of other organizations dealing with security issues in Europe (NATO, the European Union). Aleksey Gromyko, RIAC Member, Director of the RAS Institute of Europe, Andrey Zagorsky, RIAC Member, Director of IMEMO RAS Department of Disarmament and Conflict Resolution, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and several experts: ...

28.06.2018

Fighting Sanctions: From Legislation to Strategy

... legislation sparked a broad public response while still at the drafting stage. Eventually the lawmakers downplayed the most controversial clauses on the import of medicines and other sensitive issues. The new law authorizes the president to respond to anti-Russia sanctions in many ways. The main problem today is how to devise a strategy for its application and develop an effective policy of counteraction. A simple set of technical measures to restrict trade is unlikely to have a significant effect. What ...

28.06.2018
 

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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