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On August 2, 2016, RIAC Program Manager Lyudmila Filippova held talks with Dr. Ali Resul Usul, Chairman of the Center for Strategic Research ( SAM ) of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, and Second Secretary of Turkey’s Embassy in Moscow Fatih Topaloglu on furthering cooperation between the two think tanks. The participants discussed the schedule of events to take place soon and exchanged views on the topical joint studies.
The February 11, 2016 visit of the Russian High Governmental Delegation to the Republic of Iraq is a remarkable event. It definitely stands out among all the bilateral meetings and negotiations to have taken place between the two countries. What makes the visit so significant is the fact that it is largely a breakthrough event: for the first time in many years, it was conducted in the best traditions of the long-lost USSR–Iraq friendship and it significantly boosted hopes for a new chapter...
Despite all the ambiguity and contradictions of recent events, one thing is clear: in 2015, a bottom line was drawn underneath the long period of development of relations between Russia and its western neighbours. We need to acknowledge that relations between Russia and Europe will have to be built against a background of deep and sustained mutual distrust between government leaders, the political elite and society as a whole. Russia’s relations with its western neighbours have blown hot and...
In different corners of Eurasia Two events in the last month have finally set the record straight with regards to the geo-economic picture of the future of Eurasia. The November letter to the Russian President of Jean-Claude Junker, President of the European Commission, actually demonstrated that the EU has turned an old shoulder to the EEU; Moscow, in turn, suggested that the Union place a particular emphasis on developing cooperation with the East. The creation of a common economic space from...
In the current extremely complicated international situation, Russia has to look for new trade partners. However, it is well known that the new is often the well-forgotten old. On November 23, 2015, President Vladimir Putin paid a state visit to Tehran, where Russia and Iran will seal numerous trade and industrial agreements and projects that are aimed at expanding and strengthening trade between the two countries. The visit has been preceded by many days of work carried out by various intergovernmental...
On the Syrian President’s Possible Motives for Visiting Russia The Syrian President’s surprise visit to Moscow on October 21, 2015 and his talks with Vladimir Putin have triggered an avalanche of rumours. The official statements after the meeting did little to clear things up. It thus makes sense to consider several possible scenarios. Scenario one: Bashar al-Assad came to ask for additional military aid. This theory is reinforced by the fact that the government’s military offensive...
Security in Northeast Asia is seriously threatened by tensions in the Korean Peninsula, unsettled territorial disputes and new competition of great powers. Meanwhile, Russia is poised to advance the eastern flank of its foreign policy, among other things through regional initiatives. On September 7, the Russian International Affairs Council will present working paper "Security and Cooperation in Northeast Asia" authored by Russian and South Korean experts to suggest that Moscow should...
On August 26, 2015, the Russian International Affairs Council held a roundtable on intermediate effects of the 1st Minsk Agreement. The event was opened by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and attended by authors of RIAC working paper The Ukraine Challenge for Russia – Assistant Professor of Post-Soviet Space Chair at Russian State University for Humanities Alexander Gushchin, Assistant Professor of Foreign Regions and Foreign Policy Studies at Russian State University for Humanities Sergey...
Three possible scenarios of a political solution to the Ukrainian crisis: cold war, cold peace, and peaceful coexistence . Today we witness the realization of the last, intermediate scenario, which, in addition to everything else, is a Soviet legacy. In the Soviet times the peaceful coexistence theory was tested in the USSR as a form of continuation of class struggle, which promoted ties with nations with a different economic vision . Nowadays, it is tested as a scenario for cooperation with nations...
Kazushige Kobayashi is a doctoral student in International Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland, and a research fellow with the Europe-Asia Programme at the Balkan Security Agenda in Serbia. He holds Bachelor of Economics from Tohoku University in Japan, Master in International Affairs from the Geneva Graduate Institute, and has also studied at University of California at Davis and Moscow State Institute of International Relations. ...
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