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On the April 20 the NATO-Russia Council convened in Brussels for the first time in almost two years. Two weeks earlier, the Netherlands held a consultative referendum on the Association Treaty of the European Union with Ukraine. Richard Sakwa, Professor of Russian and European ...
... China was signed back in April 2015). The European Union issued a condemnation of Chinese and Japanese recalcitrance in roughly equal measure. Moreover, Europeans did not back the US in its endeavor to increase its military presence in the crisis area. NATO held consultations to determine whether the cyber attack would justify the invocation of its collective-defense obligations, but came to no firm conclusions. The simulation comes to an end here. <р3>Europe’s not eager to go into action ...
A meeting of the ambassadorial Russia–NATO Council (RNC) held on 20 April at the suggestion of NATO after a long break. There are two issues on the agenda – Ukraine and Afghanistan. It’s not clear, however, why this should be the venue for a dialogue on the crisis in Ukraine and ...
... Jörgen Cederberg, Senior Adviser of the Ministry’s Department for Security and International Relations. The guests were familiarized with RIAC’s projects on international cooperation in the Arctic, European security, the Baltic, and Russia-NATO dialogue.
Sudden, shocking, disturbing, and largely self-propelled trends in America and Europe are doing more damage to Western democracy today than Soviet armies or nuclear missiles ever did during the Cold War By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981), originally published March 17th, 2016, on LinkedIn Pulse Clockwise: Photo/Agencies, Cheryl Evans/The Republic, AP AMMAN — Roughly a quarter-century ago, the world seemed poised for a triumph of democracy and human rights unprecedented...
... Russia Jean-Maurice Ripert held a meeting at the French Embassy with RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and leading Russian international journalists Andrey Soldatov and Pavel Felgenhauer. The discussion focused on the relations between Russia and NATO in the context of the upcoming NATO Warsaw Summit in July 2016, the prospects for recovery of the NATO-Russia Council activity to the full extent, the probable immediate priorities of the Council, the future of the military-strategic stability in ...
... consolidated position of the West. For the first time since the invasion to Afghanistan back in 1979, the Kremlin used military force outside the boundaries of the former Soviet Union. For the first time, a Russian military aircraft was grounded by a NATO member country (Turkey). For the first time, Russia became a central player in a large-scale war right in the heart of the Middle East. When Western experts and Kremlin watchers analyze the Russian strategy in Syria, they usually single out three ...
On March 21, 2016 the Russian International Affairs held a meeting with a delegation of the Defense Committee of the Senate of the Italian Republic , led by its Chairman Senator N. Latorre. The delegation discussed with Russian experts the issues of international security: the relationship between Russia and the United States, between Russia and NATO; resolving regional conflicts, including the situation in Libya and Syria; ...
... would be logical to start the discussion with defining the types of threats that appear to be the most dangerous for Russia and Europe now and in the nearest future. Do we have a common list of new threats? Yes, we do. Let me bring your attention to the NATO–Russia Council Joint Statement signed at the meeting of the NATO–Russia Council held in Lisbon on November 20, 2010. Russia and NATO stated that they shared important common interests and faced common challenges. On that basis, they identified ...
... raise many an eyebrow in Moscow. Firstly, the OSCE has never been a “Western” institution. It emerged in 1970s as a compromise between the Soviet bloc and the West, and it served both sides well in the final stages of the Cold War. Neither NATO, nor the European Union ever had a majority of members in this institution. In fact, the OSCE was the first truly pan-European organisation – a factor which has lent it a unique form of legitimacy. Secondly, I clearly recall that in the early ...
