On 24 September 2012, RIAC hosted a conference titled "
Russia-Japan: opportunities, threats, and prospects
". The event featured four sections:
1. Russian-Japanese political relations
2. Potential for the development of trade & economic and research & technology relations
3. Security issues in the Asia Pacific and possible forms of cooperation between Russia and Japan
4. Cultural and educational relations and exchanges through public organizations and their role in shaping positive environment...
On 21 September, at an opening of the international conference in Seoul on global finance, energy, and sustainable development in the context of Russia’s forthcoming G20 presidency RIAC General Director Andrey Kortunov made a welcome speech. Among participants in the conference organized by Korea Development Institute in cooperation with Korea University were officials of the Republic of Korea, representatives of the academic and educational community from the G20 countries, leaders of public...
September 18 - RIAC hosted an expert meeting titled “Russian-Indian relations: the new agenda of military & technical cooperation”. The meeting was held as part of the Russia-India: to a New Agenda in Bilateral Relations Project.
RIAC member and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India, Army General Vyacheslav Trubnikov chaired the meeting. Chief researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian...
On September 17, 2012 a meeting was held in Alexander House Business Center between RIAC executives and experts and a group of Japanese researchers and journalists.
The participants of the meeting were welcomed by the Council’s General Director A. Kortunov, who introduced to the guests members of the RIAC Working Group for Russian-Japanese Relations: Chief Researcher of the Institute of US and Canadian Studies of RAS, Ambassador A. Panov, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies of the Institute...
On September 17, 2012 the Russian International Affairs Council held an expert meeting on Russian-British relations and related problems and prospects.
The meeting was held with the participation of the leading Russian researchers working on Russian-British relations issues.
The meeting was opened by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev. The moderator of the meeting was Alexey Gromyko, Deputy Director of the Institute of Europe of RAS, Director of the Center for British Studies of the Institute of...
A delegation of the Arab and International Relations Council was in Moscow on September 17 at the invitation of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
The delegation was headed by Mohammad Jassem Al-Saqer, the Council Chairman, the former Chairman of the Arab Parliament and a member of the National Board of Kuwait, and included Ayad Hashim Allawi, the former Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed bin Issa, the former Morocco Foreign Minister, Fuad Al-Siniora, the former Lebanese Prime Minister...
On September 14, RIAC President Igor Ivanov met with the Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Elvira Nabiullina. The meeting was attended by RIAC General Director Andrei Kortunov, Deputy Head of the Presidential Experts’ Directorate Alexey Kvasov, and other members of the Presidential Administration.
During the meeting, they discussed the participation of the Russian International Affairs Council in the preparation of expert and analytical materials for the Experts’ Directorate on...
On September 14, RIAC General Director Andrey Kortunov spoke at the all-Russia conference “Internationalization of Social and Human Sciences in Russian Higher Education Institutions: Challenges and Prospects”.
Among the participants of the conference organized by ISE Center were representatives of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, experts from RAS specialized institutes, the executive and teaching staff of Russia’s leading universities, including corporate RIAC members – the Ural Federal...
On September 10, RIAC hosted an expert meeting titled "Russian-Indian relations: the new agenda of economic and trade relations". The meeting was the first event of the project "Russia-India: to a new agenda of bilateral relations".
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Army General V.I Trubnikov, chaired the seminar. The seminar was co-chaired by chief researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Science, A.G. Volodin...
RIAC President Igor Ivanov, RIAC General Director Andrei Kortunov, and program director Ivan Timofeev had a consulting meeting with the Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Anatoly Torkunov and provost of MGIMO-University, Artem Malgin, on the prospects of interaction between RIAC and MGIMO-University.
The main issue discussed at the meeting was joint work on organization and holding of a conference on nuclear...
