On October 13, 2014, in Rome, RIAC and Italian Institute for International Political Studies held roundtable “
Resumption of Russia-Europe Dialogue: from Minimization of Damage to a New Cooperation Format
” focused on improving trust between Russia and European countries in the light of Ukraine crisis, overcoming the Cold War legacy, future security architecture and mechanisms for conflict prevention.
The participants also considered alternatives for Russia-EU economic relationship under...
... participants concentrated on the review of the teaching and research practices, a RIAC priority in 2014-2015, having underlined that cooperation in the education area acquires special significance in the current international environment. Russia and Italy are facing similar global challenges to be handled with help of joint international projects. The Russian-Italian globalization project is meant to find innovative research paradigms, as well as to explain and forecast both positive and negative ...
On June 27, 2014, the Russian International Affairs Council and the Italian Embassy in Moscow held workshop "
Russia and Italy: Proposals for Development of Partnership
."
The Italian delegation was represented by Ambassador
Cesare
Ragaglini, Head of Economic and Trade Section Leonardo Bencini and First Counselor Stefano Ravagnan, as well as Marisa Florio, President ...
On June16, 2014 RIAC President Igor Ivanov and RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov received Pierre Fernando Cassini, President of the Italian Senate Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss opportunities for improving Russia-EU relations in the Ukraine crisis context and prospects for the future cooperation between RIAC and Italian think tanks.
The event was also attended by Emma Fattorini of the Democratic Party; Cristina di Pietro of the Five Stars Movement; Minister Counselor of Italian Embassy...
... 13-14, 2014 Venice hosted a workshop aimed at discussing the present and future of the European Union in the changing world. The event was sponsored by the
Consiglio per le Relazioni tra Italia e Stati Uniti
(
The Council for the United States and Italy
).
The workshop was attended by Italian businessmen, officials, diplomats, civil society and think tank leaders, journalists and politicians, as well as by experts and businessmen from other EU countries and the United States.
RIAC Director General ...
On March 31, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met Bernardo Venturi, Chief for Foreign Relations of the
Association Rondine Cittadella della Pace
(Toscana, Italy), and its employees Stefano Marilnelli and Mauro D’Andrea.
The Italian guests pointed out that their Association was working hard to strengthen the cultural dialogue between students in politically unstable regions including the Middle East,...
On January 30, 2014 RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, Deputy Director of RAS Institute for European Studies Alexey Gromyko and RIAC Member Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russian in Global Affairs journal, met Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Marta Dassu who is on a visit in Moscow.
Devoted to the role of the Russian and EU think tanks in advancement of Moscow-Brussels cooperation through augmenting the official dialogue, the meeting also covered a possible bilateral think tank summit during...
On November 20, 2013 a meeting between RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and President of the National Research Council of Italy (
CNR
) professor
Luigi Nicolais
took place.
Among the participants also were director of the Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds
Maurizio Peruzzini
and RIAC Deputy Program Director
Timur Makhmutov
.
The parties discussed the possibilities ...
On October 21, RIAC President
Igor Ivanov
met the new Italian Ambassador to Russia
Cesare Maria Ragaglini
to discuss the development of the Russian-Italian relations, Russia-EU interaction, and current international security issues.
Special attention was drawn to advancing bilateral inter-parliamentary contacts and the civil society dialog in the context of upcoming Italian presidency of the EU in the second half of 2014. Dr. Ivanov also talked about RIAC’s European projects and plans for...
... built only at the end of the 1980s, was taken of service by the Spanish Navy due to
budgetary cuts
. As a result, the Juan Carlos I, commissioned in autumn 2010, appears to be only large aircraft carrier of the Spanish Navy.
Against this background, Italy looks to be quite an exception. Despite repeated declared reductions of the military budget in 2012 and early 2013, the Navy still retains in service the aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi and in 2009 added a new multi-purpose aircraft carrier,...
