... modern world, resolving political differences is increasingly dependent on the incentives that economic partners have to cooperate. After a long period of an almost complete suspension of any economic relations between the two countries, Russia and Georgia have now been given a chance to build a new system of economic collaboration based on their respective geo-economic and geopolitical interests.
Preconditions for Improving Bilateral Relations
Georgia has been in the spotlight of Russia’s ...
On May 8, 2014 the Russian-Georgian Civic Center, Tbilisi, hosted the presentation of working paper “
Russian-Georgian Relations: in Search for New Ways for Development
” issued jointly by RIAC and Georgian International Center of Conflicts and Negotiations (
ICCN
)....
Knowledge of History Is Nothing, Learning Its Lessons Is Everything
As of late, Georgia, which used to be one of the closest Soviet republics to Russia, has become Moscow’s most problematic partner of all the Transcaucasian states. And this has happened despite a common two-century history and Orthodox faith as well as the ...
On April 3, 2014 the RIA Novosti News Press Center held a roundtable "Russia-Georgia: Normalization of the Relationship".
The discussion was attended by Director of Center for Global Studies Nana Devdariani, Director of Center of Center for Integrated Development Studies at Tbilisi State University Levan Metreveli, as well ...
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 ...
