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On March, 10, Laurie Bristow, the UK Ambassador to Russia, visited RIAC. The meeting with RIAC authorities covered the preparation for the visit of Boris Johnson, British Foreign Secretary, to Moscow, prospects and limitations of bilateral cooperation regarding European security, Syrian conflict settlement, civil war in Libya as well as the fight against international terrorism and cyberthreats.
It was Lord Palmerston, the Victorian-era British Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, who said that nations had no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests. (The same man in 1841 famously dismissed Hong Kong as “a barren rock”.) It is these “permanent interests” which seem to have triumphed in Sino-British relations after a minor hiccup which followed the Brexit referendum in the summer. Things came to a head in September, 2016 when Jim O'Neill, the UK Treasury minister leading trade...
... Russia-UK relations as well as security issues in Europe within the framework of this year's political developments. Andrey Kortunov informed the Foreign office representative about the joint projects developed by RIAC and partner organizations in the United Kingdom and other European countries.
On December 8, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, delivered a public lecture in London School of Economics «The Kremlin’s logic: evolution of relations between Russia and the West». The lecture was attended by London School of Economics’ and other British universities’ professors and PhD students, think tank representatives, government officials and journalists.
A study conducted by the Chatham House on the relationship between problems concerning nuclear weapons (NW) and other issues of multilateral international cooperation published in October 2016 finds there is common ground between the traditional approaches to nuclear disarmament and the “humanitarian” views calling for the complete and immediate prohibition of nuclear weapons. View from London On 12 October 2016, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, better known as the Chatham House , ...
... government will conduct a policy of a more active and zealous protection of its national security interests, using the independence gained after withdrawing from the European Union. Brexit could lead to a radical change in the balance of power on the United Kingdom’s domestic market and in the geographic and sectoral structure of trade and investment flows. Relevant changes could also affect China, one of the most dynamic investors in the UK economy. China’s Expansionist Investment Policy China ...
The United Kingdom referendum on its membership in the European Union has given rise to countless expert opinions, assessments and publications, ranging from moderate to radical, from optimistic to extremely pessimistic predictions that the United Kingdom,...
Although fears about the potential implications of the UK withdrawal from the European Union are widespread, experts doubt Brexit will shatter the EU policy towards Russia in the near future. The latest House of Commons report on Russia indicates no change in Britain’s vision of its security interests either. The UK House of Commons Defense Committee has released a report highlighting the challenges Russia poses for the kingdom’s security interests. The report comes at a critical moment as the UK’s...
On May 16, 2016 a group of RIAC members met with a delegation of UK parliamentarians headed by Chairman of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee Crispin Blunt. The meeting took place at the residence of the British Ambassador to Russia. The delegation has arrived to Moscow from London for consultations with their counterparts in the State Duma. This visit denotes the first step in restoration of Russia-UK inter-Parliamentary contacts, suspended in early 2014. The Russian side at the...
... spending. Following their 2010 agreement , they are going to build joint centers for servicing their nuclear arsenals. The French bases were also seen as locations for the temporary basing of British SSBNs Vanguard if Scotland was to cede from the United Kingdom. However, both sides stress their intention to separately develop warheads and launchers. The funniest episode in the French-British "cooperation" is known to have taken place late at night on February 3, 2009, when a Vanguard ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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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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