... RIAC President Igor Ivanov had a meeting with Carsten Sondergaard, Ambassador of Denmark in the Russian Federation.
The following issues were discussed in the course of the meeting: various aspects of relations between Russia and NATO, Russia and the European Union, the prospects for Russian-American control of strategic armaments, the future of the INF Treaty and New START, and the situation in the Baltic region. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, also took part in the meeting.
Why Russia’s tilt towards Asia will continue
The ongoing crisis in relations between Russia and the EU is usually linked to dramatic events in and around Ukraine in 2013–2014. Indeed, it is impossible to imagine that the EU–Russia relationship can get back on track or “business as usual” until the Ukrainian conflict is resolved. Unfortunately, a resolution of this conflict is not likely to happen in the immediate future – many argue that we will have to live with this bleeding wound in the center...
On September 23–25, 2018, in Paris, international political consultancy The Shaikh Group is holding a high-level Track II meeting on security issues in the Middle East region.
On September 23–25, 2018, in Paris, international political consultancy The Shaikh Group is holding a high-level Track II meeting on security issues in the Middle East region.
The meeting is attended by former high-ranking diplomats and leading international experts from the United States, China, India, and a number of European...
... communication between the states, has it become more active or less active after the infamous migration crisis of 2015?
Sergei Sokolov:
EU Migrant Crisis: A Blast From The Past
We certainly have discussions on migration at the international levels, in the European Union, also in the United Nations now we have contacts on migration and refuges that came out in 2018 which are...the end product of the crisis 2015, or linked to it. We see a lot more discussion, we see some cooperation, but it tends to be on ...
Thomas Mayr-Harting, Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia in the European External Action Service, and Boris Yaroshevich, Managing Director of the Central Asia Department of the European External Action Service, attended the event.
On September 14, 2018, Russian International Affairs Council organized a round table on “Russia-EU Relations and Policy in Central Asia”. Thomas Mayr-Harting, Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia in the European External Action Service, and Boris Yaroshevich...
... and contradictions, but they all come to naught because of a solid edifice of bilateral relations that has been consistently constructed in recent years and which possesses clearly defined strategic benchmarks.
As far as Russia’s relations with the European Union are concerned, attempts to force political manipulators to cease and desist have thus far been unsuccessful. In the early 2000s, Russia and Europe built their relations with the common goal of achieving strategic partnership. Over the course ...
... University of Vienna, dealing with the issues of contemporary international relations. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, made a speech in the course of the first session on possible scenarios for the development of relations between Russia and the European Union. Sergey Markedonov, RIAC Expert, Associate Professor, Department of Regional Studies and Foreign Policy, Russian State University for the Humanities, made a speech on the conflicts in the Post-Soviet space in the course of the second session....
Arguments For and Against a Strong Europe
Today, many in the European Union are convinced that Russia is highly interested in the failure of the “European project.” In his latest interview with a Swedish TV channel, President of France Emmanuel Macron claimed that Vladimir Putin “dreamt of dismantling the ...
The EU is a more reliable partner for Moscow in addressing many international issues than the United States
Research literature on sanctions has for a long time focused on how various factors influence their efficiency interpreted as primarily the ability of sanctions to change a target country’s political course. Sanctions can inflict serious damage on a target country’s economy and yet produce a zero or negative effect. Therefore, we can hardly consider as effective even the most draconian sanctions...
... rigid politico-military or economic blocs; BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, these amorphous and barely binding associations, are beside the point here. Germany, for its part, has numerous fairly tangible obligations within NATO and the European Union. Berlin may be the driver of the European Union, but within NATO it often finds itself playing supporting roles. To continue with the romantic parallels, China the young man is single and free, whereas the girl is bound by close ties with ...
