RIAC Experts comment
President Obama has completed his Asian tour and President Putin has visited China. What conclusions can be drawn from the results of these events?
Below are comments by Gleb Ivashentsov, Deputy Director of the Russian Centre for APEC Studies; Dmitry Mosyakov, Head of the Centre for the Study of South East Asia, Australia and Oceania at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Vladimir Petrovsky, Public Relations Secretary at the Institute for...
... a website with close ties to the Israeli defense and intelligence communities, posits that both Bandar and Kochavi made "miscalculations".
Bandar had sealed his fate last year during his secret visit outside Moscow with Russian president Vladimir Putin. He bragged that Riyadh controlled Chechen extremists in Russia, and that he would unleash them on the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics unless Putin ended his support for the Assad regime in Syria.
Haaretz and Al Monitor reported that as far ...
... president Obama’s first term is on the record saying that Russia’s presence in Crimea is effectively a fait accompli.
Former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger has urged the international community not to assign blame to Russian president Vladimir Putin and recommends that more negotiations over the future of Ukraine are required to achieve a tenable solution.
Stern, one of Germany’s leading print and online media platforms, has published a poll indicating that 77 percent of those ...
Although the government of Russian president Vladimir Putin has authorized writing off 90% of Cuba’s $32 billion debt Kremlin policy toward the Castro regime is characterized by caution. Foreign direct investment by the Russian Federation in Cuba remains insignificant.
But Cuba’s economic ...
... spoke to FSA leader General Salam Idris, who is currently based near they Syrian border in Turkey, to assure him that Washington launching an attack on Assad controlled Syria is very much an option. Then too, there are no indications that president Vladimir Putin has backed off from his “yes we will” commitment to support Syria if the nation is attacked. Meanwhile the two factions, both with a strong complement of cadre from other Islamic nations rumbles toward their third year of civil ...
Cold War stereotypes prevent the building of a new system of international links
On August 9, Russian foreign and defense ministers met their U.S. counterparts in Washington the day after President Obama had cancelled his September visit to Russia. American hawks were triumphant, as were Moscow’s hawks and some like-minded figures in Europe – all rubbing their hands over yet another slip up in the Russia-U.S. relationship. Cold War stereotypes are proving really hard to kill - poisoning...
"Window of opportunities"
On the 17th of June this year, a meeting of Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin was held at the G8 Summit. The two Presidents signed several important arrangements aimed at strengthening bilateral relations between Russia and the U.S. that lived though a complicated period in 2012. In essence, it became possible to ...
The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) expresses its deep satisfaction with the outcome of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama, held on June 18 in Los Cabos (Mexico).
The joint statement issued following the meeting indicates that the course of further development of Russian-U.S. relations, referred to as the "Reset" in ...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has had his hat in the political arena for almost 13 years now, during which time he has become not just a symbol of his country, but the personification of a certain type of politics. This is a product of an era of transition, both in ...
