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On April 2, 2014 Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, State Secretary and RIAC Member, received the participants of Russian-Georgian Conference on Regional Security and Bilateral Cooperation. The meeting with the top Russian official was part of the visit of the Georgian think-tankers to Moscow that was opened by meetings in RIAC on March 31 and April 1, 2014. As described ...
... EU’s Eastern Partnership Programme has been making a lot of noise as of late, especially following the Vilnius summit that was held last November. We asked Salomé Zourabichvili , French diplomat and former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Georgia for her views on the current evolution of the European Eastern partnership programme and relations between the EU and its Eastern neighbours. Salomé Zourabichvili comes from a Georgian immigrant family that had to fleeto Paris in 1921. ...
... the future political structure of their country Olga Potyomkina : The European Union reaffirmed its goal of strengthening economic integration and political association with the Eastern Partnership’s ‘promising’ members, Moldova and Georgia Kyrill Entin : If the Ukrainian government has ultra-right members, it would give the EU a convenient pretext for reneging on its promises to abolish visas and provide financial aid András Rácz : We are going to see a similar intensification ...
The major achievement of the first period of thaw in the Russian-Georgian relations is their deideologization; cooperation between the two states has become more pragmatic. Despite the tactical agenda exhaustion, both countries express their determination to broaden the spheres of cooperation. This “broadening” ...
This is the conclusion that Russian and Georgian researchers came to on December 14-15, 2013 during the second expert meeting in Tbilisi organized by the International Center on Conflicts and Negotiations (ICCN, Georgia) together with the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC). During ...
Georgia’s Presidential Election: Winds of Change The presidential election in Georgia, on October 27, 2013, had a significant impact on the internal political landscape in the country. Apart from determining its new head of state, the Caucasus republic ...
Meeting in Istanbul on October 30-31 on the initiative of RIAC and Georgian Center on Conflicts and Negotiations (ICCN), Russian and Georgian experts came to a conclusion that stage one of Russia-Georgia thaw is over and previous incentives for rapprochement are no longer working, which brings the bilateral relationship ...
Interview with Nana Gegelashvili, Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies, RAS Interview Georgia will hold presidential elections on October 27, and it is common knowledge that under Mikheil Saakashvili, the relations between Moscow and Tbilisi have been quite tense. We asked Nana Gegelashvili , Head of the Center for Regional Studies at ...
In this exclusive interview with Russia Direct, Grigory Karasin, Russian State Secretary and Deputy Foreign Minister, discusses Abkhazia, South Ossetia and relations with Georgia. On August 26, 2013, the Republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia celebrated the fifth anniversaries of their independence and the establishment of diplomatic relations with Russia. The day before this, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a working ...
Russia and Georgia’s clash over South Ossetia happened five years ago, but today it feels like an age away. Much has changed since then in Georgia and Russia, as well in all the countries that were indirectly involved in the conflict. Georgia was the first ...
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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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