Syria and especially Ukraine appear to be inflection points in the trajectory of Russian foreign policy
Ivan Timofeev, who participated in the annual meeting of Valdai International Discussion Club is giving a talk on the outline of future Russian foreign policy.
After the Ukraine crisis and military intervention in Syria, the key principles and ideas underpinning Russian foreign policy are becoming easier to understand.
Against the backdrop of the Ukraine crisis and the military airstrikes in...
The meeting of CIS heads of state held in Kazakhstan on 16 October 2015 drew attention with its multilateral format, which has long been the subject of the phrase “either good or nothing.”
In both Russia and other post-Soviet states, the Commonwealth is viewed as an instrument for soft adaptation to gradual, but consistent and inevitable differentiation of foreign policy and foreign economy priorities of the countries of the former Soviet Union. CIS summits have held meetings of political...
The recent presidential election in Belarus was associated with an unusual uncertainty, which was uncharacteristically beyond the political sphere and entirely within the economic sector. Belarus will not be shocked to learn the outcomes of the election. The country is expecting changes in its economic policy after the election.
So what are economic and political discussions all about?
Economy
Belarusian liberals
believe that the current economic structure fails to ensure sustainable growth in prosperity...
Interview with Vagram Ter-Matevosian and Arshaluis Mgdesian
In January 2015, Armenia became an official member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), having refused to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union. Armenia has no common borders with the Customs Union member states; therefore, its EEU accession treaty includes a special procedure for the transportation of freights between ...
... professionalism. Otherwise, instead of a strategic reorientation, we might end up in economic and geopolitical isolation.
12. The shift of strategic accents means that Moscow should invest considerable political capital in developing the mechanisms of EEU, SCO and other multilateral structures of Greater Eurasia. This is especially true since many of these mechanisms are being created virtually from scratch and Russian foreign policy has every opportunity to play active and, in some areas, leading ...
Interview with Alexander Knyazev
Soon after breaking free from the shackles of economic sanctions in July, Tehran proposed a Free Trade Area (FTA) with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), a recent brainchild of Russian foreign policy. We met with Alexander Knyazev, Senior Research Fellow at the RAS Institute for Oriental Studies, to discuss how Moscow can combine cooperation with Iran with its Eurasian integration efforts.
Why was ...
... were discussing a powerful economic collaboration among partner countries in first week of July 2015 and world was watching the outcome of these two meeting another collaboration was taking place in Vienna ,Austria of Eurasian Economic Association or EEU. The geo political importance of BRICS and SCO was fully attended by media but very few know the outcome of EEU meeting. Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif and attended by representatives of other partner countries an impossible talks was met ...
... searching for a compromise between its own national interests and the need to participate in global institutions and processes, as well as compliance with the obligations arising from membership of the Customs Union (CU) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). Officially, Kazakhstan will automatically become the 162nd full member of the WTO 30 days after the date the Protocol is ratified.
The importance of WTO membership for Kazakhstan
Speaking at the signing ceremony, the WTO Director General noted that ...
... markets can only be found in those countries that are outside these global agreements.
Does Russia have any chance for development outside TPP and TTIP limits? No clear-cut answer is apparent in the immediate term. As for the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and BRICS, their cooperation potential remains great, but still has to prove its economic worth.
Importantly, U.S. trade with China (USD 590 billion), India (USD 67 billion), Brazil (USD 73 billion) and South Africa (USD 14.5 billion) in 2014 was ...
On July 18, 2015, the Russian International Affairs Council and Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) officially closed their Summer School by producing 36 proposals for development of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in energy, infrastructure, migration, macroeconomics, intellectual property and customs regulation spheres.
During one week, the School attendees were lectured by EEC officials, received teamwork training and took part in a city quest on Eurasian ...
