The Yearbook contains research of issues both traditional and new for SIPRI, among them corruption in arms trade, security and conflicts, defense spending and armaments, nonproliferation and arms control, disarmament, major trends in development of global security, and global counterterrorism patterns.
Readership: government, foreign policy experts and defense industry community.
The Yearbook Russian edition has been prepared by the Center for International Security of RAS Institute of World Economy...
On December 19, RIAC hosted the
Sergey Kortunov Young Experts’ Debate
.
Although still a relatively young organization, RIAC already boasts certain traditions, and one of them is the Annual Youth Debate on pressing international issues that divide public and expert opinion. Young scholars from opposite camps exchange opinions, and the audience votes for the winner.
In terms of practical results, the debate promotes greater understanding of key areas of dispute, and helps develop consensus...
On December 14, RIAC Board of Trustees held its second meeting chaired by Academician Yevgeny Primakov, where reports were delivered by RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director General Andrey Kortunov.
Dr. Ivanov summed up the RIAC activities in 2012 in analytical, educational and international fields presenting its publications and projects, whereas Dr. Kortunov focused on the 2013 plans for prospective projects, conferences, publications, as well as engagement of core agencies, interested private...
Titled “
EU and Russia: in Concert or Separately
”, the event was attended by Russia's Ambassador to Slovakia
Pavel Kuznetsov
, Slovakia's Ambassador to Moscow
Josef Migash
, Deputy Chair of the RF Commission for UNESCO
Alexander Dzasokhov
, as well as representatives of academic community, business, diplomatic corps, NGOs and media.
Opening words came from RIAC President
Igor Ivanov
who underlined that Russia-EU relations were at the crossroads. In late 1990s and early 2000s, the...
On December 5, RIAC held expert meeting "
Russian Interests in Central Asia and Measures for their Realization – Discussion of Final Report
".
Opened by Vitaly Naumkin, Director of RAS Institute for Oriental Studies, the discussion was moderated by chief researcher Irene Zvyagelskaya and researcher Stansilav Pritchin, both from the same establishment.
The list included representatives from the RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies...
On December 5, RIAC held expert meeting Russia's Interests in the Great Middle East: Opportunities in the Current Environment within project Middle East: Political Dynamics and Russia’s Interests
The event was opened by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and moderated by Vitaly Naumkin, RAS Corresponding Member and Director of RAS Institute for Oriental Studies, with participants from the RF Federation Council, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies, MGIMO University of the Russian Foreign Ministry...
On November 30, RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director General Andrey Kortunov received a delegation of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation including Foundation’s Europe Office Director Joe Cerrell, Program Officer Beatrice Nere and Program Coordinator Daina Rudusa; Yevgeny Zvedre, Senior Advisor of Albright Stonebridge Group, and Andrew Weiss, Director of RAND Center for Russia and Eurasia.
The talks covered possible RIAC-Foundation teamwork in view of Russia’s presidency in the G20 on matters related...
On November 28, RIAC governors, President Igor Ivanov and Director General Andrey Kortunov, welcomed in Moscow guests from Robert Bosch Foundation, Germany, among them Prof. Joachim Rogall, Foundation Senior Vice President; Eberhard Sandschneider, China and Asia Programs Director at the German Council on Foreign Relations; Horst Teltschik, former senior political advisor to Chancellor Helmut Kohl; Janusz Reiter, former Polish ambassador to the U.S.A. and Germany, President and Founder of the Polish...
The Russian International Affairs Council in conjunction with the independent international organization Oxfam conducted, on 15 November 2012, a round table conference, “Impact of Climate Change on Food Security”. The meeting was opened by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeyev and Head of the Oxfam Office in Russia Dmitri Medlev. The moderator was Oxfam Russian Program Coordinator Yulia Yevtushok.
The round table brought together Russian experts, officials of Russia’s Agriculture...
RIAC General Director Andrei Kortunov on 16 November met in Washington, D.C., with National Strategy Advisor, Chevron Corporation, Jan Kalicki and Russia and Eurasia Program Director, Carnegie Foundation for International Peace, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia James Collins.
They discussed cooperation of the three organizations in the development of Russian-American interaction in the Asia-Pacific Region in the context of Russia’s accession to the WTO and the end of the year of Russia’s chair in...
