The next packages will be less spectacular, but they will be detrimental to specific businesses and areas of the economy
Oil and KAMAZ
The Official Journal of the European Union
has published
decisions and regulations included into the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions. The release of the new legal framework has been postponed several times on account of disagreements among the EU countries, with the most sensitive issue being the ban on Russian oil imports. Brussels, however, managed to...
Recently, RIAC had the honor to host
Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury
, currently working as diplomatic editor with India’s top financial newspaper The Economic Times and having the experience of program director on foreign policy with Ananta Aspen Center (2012–2013). Anastasia Tolstukhina, RIAC Program Manager and Editor, took the opportunity to talk to Mr. Chaudry, who shared his perspectives on India’s positioning in the world, core principles of the country’s foreign policy as well as prospects for the...
At all costs, India wants to prevent any sudden disruptions that could destabilize the global systemic transition to multipolarity, lead to one of the bi-multipolar superpowers becoming a unipolar hegemon, and thus create the conditions for coercing India into becoming their “junior partner”.
The Bi-Multipolar Intermediary Phase
International Relations are in the midst of accelerated, compressed, and profound changes as everything chaotically transitions from the former U.S.-led unipolar system...
Washington still has to muster the art of the chiefdom in the region that used to be the US imperial backyard
The US hosted the Summit of the Americas only once—it was the very first meeting of the forum conveyed in Miami in December of 1994. These were the heydays of the post-Cold War US international hegemony and the US global triumphalism. Not surprisingly, the Clinton administration fully dominated in setting both the specific agenda of the event in Florida and the priorities for the new gathering...
... be assessed as a pinnacle of this bonding. It would be, however,
premature
to call this accord an alliance, let alone a military one. In the ongoing developments, China, on its part, has been struggling to balance on a fine line between avoiding accusations of directly
helping
Russia and sticking to its commitment that a strategic partnership presupposes.
On the conceptual level, neither Russia nor China accept the Indo-Pacific framing used by some regional powers (Australia, Japan and India in ...
... Russian and Ukrainian grain, as well as Russian and Belarusian fertilizers to world markets. The role of international organizations (FAO, G20, BRICS) in ensuring global food security was also discussed. Leading international researchers from China, the USA, Great Britain, Ukraine, and Russia took part in the event. Russian side was represented at the event by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General.
... Syria that Turkey
closed on April 23
; or else, it may block NATO warships’ passage into the Black Sea no matter how hard NATO tries to push Turkey into revoking its prohibition under various pretexts. Finally, another trump card may be Turkey’s refusal to accede to anti-Russian sanctions.
In the current situation, a conflict with Turkey may turn out to be too costly for Moscow, while direct opposition to Turkey’s plans (primarily if Damascus insists on it) may result in Ankara changing its approaches ...
Moscow should prepare for a long-term stand-off with Washington
The rash decisions to join NATO recently adopted by Helsinki and Stockholm are probably the most vivid illustration of the emerging trend toward a consolidation of the Collective West, with other evidence of this newfound unity among the Western nations after February 24, 2022 seen in plenty.
For instance, the unprecedented sanctions against Moscow were agreed upon at an astonishing speed, just as the programs of military and economic...
The road to peace will be long enough and will be accompanied by extremely dangerous situations
In the event that the acute phase of the conflict in Ukraine really turns out to be very long, which, apparently, is the case, then the elementary needs of survival will force Russia to get rid of what binds it to Europe, Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev.
In the event that the growing conflict in and around Ukraine does not lead to irreparable consequences on a global scale in the near...
The West’s anti-China rhetoric and the idea of mounting NATO presence in the Indo-Pacific meet with a critical reception from most Asian states
As the ideological schism in today’s world deepens, the leaders of the liberal camp are ramping up their activities in the regions they have not paid much attention to before. The main purpose of the military, diplomatic, and economic efforts of the Global West is to expand the sphere of influence, preventing their “non-democratic and revisionist” vis-à-vis...
