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The profound and pervasive crisis in Ukraine is a matter of grave concern for Russia. We understand perfectly well the position of a country which became independent just over 20 years ago and still faces complex tasks in constructing a sovereign state. Among them is the search for a balance ...
... summer rains and, no less importantly, the EU market reached a point of saturation and stopped growing (EU gas consumption has been stagnating since 2006, while oil consumption has fallen). Alexey Belogoriev At the same time, the first transit crisis in Ukraine occurred during the winter of 2005-2006, which was then followed by an immeasurably more devastating crisis in January 2009. It was then that the political decision was made to gradually reduce gas purchases from Russia. Why does gas get so much ...
... militant political rhetoric, the pace of which is set by the United States and the European Commission, cannot but affect rational business thinking. The Crimean referendum and the potential for flashpoints that spark conflict to appear elsewhere in Ukraine necessarily mean a prolonged setback to Russian-European economic cooperation and partial freezing of Russian-American economic cooperation. But the main question is not how long this cooling of relations will last, but if there are real conditions ...
... and opinion pieces attesting to military movements here and troop and materiel organization there that can only possibly mean one thing: preparation for a massive Russian incursion into a whole host of different areas, most notably the Eastern half of Ukraine. There are very few American reporters venturing an alternative viewpoint (the accomplished Jim Maceda of NBC News is one of the few). Think tanks and academic institutes are not doing much better. The powerful and extremely influential Foreign ...
MOSCOW, March 31, /ITAR-TASS/. The European Union's attitude toward the events in Ukraine is becoming more objective, Russia’s ambassador to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov, said Monday on the Rossiya 24 television channel. “The situation is certainly changing. We can say that the picture is becoming a bit more balanced,...
Reports continue to grow of an increase in Russian troops along the border with Ukraine. But how likely, really, is a military invasion of Ukraine? Russia Direct asked the experts. Andrei Kortunov, General Director of the Russian International Affairs Council It is premature to say that Russia’s troops will invade Eastern Ukraine....
... for a national electronic payments system, broadly analogous to Japan's JCB. The French government has postponed its decision as regards the Mistral ships which France is building for the Russian Navy. It may well be that that order will be canceled. Ukraine, faced with the prospect of losing the special gas price granted by President Vladimir Putin to Viktor Yanukovych, will begin receiving some of the gas it needs via Germany. Meanwhile, Germany and other EU countries, encouraged by the United States,...
In March18, 2014 in Berlin has been presented four scenarios of EU-Ukrainian relation that were developed by a team of 26 civil societies experts, academics and state workers across Ukraine. The event supported by European Council of Foreign Relation www.ecfr.eu and Friedrich-Ebert Foundation www.fes.de and opened a discussion of perspectives, difficulties and trends in modern Ukraine after 2013-2014 Euromaidan revolution. The experts´ ...
Experts on Russia and Ukraine from a number of leading think tanks in China have kindly agreed to share their comments on the Ukrainian crisis, the implications of sanctions against Russia, Russian policies in this area, and the position of the Chinese government. Jian Yi ...
Western Sanctions Are a Sign of Weakness These days you will hardly find a Western politician or a public leader, who has not yet made a statement on Ukraine. All the pluralism of views and opinions notwithstanding, the overwhelming majority of comments boil down to two theses.First, they focus on only one dimension of the multidimensional Ukrainian crisis – on the Crimean dimension. Second, ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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