RIAC and RUSI Report No. 38/2018
This report represents findings from the second round of the UK–Russia Track II bilateral security dialogue, held by Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (
RUSI
) in collaboration with the Moscow-based Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
The dialogue, held between April and December 2017, brought together experts and former government officials from the two countries to discuss and debate ways in which the UK and Russia’s bilateral...
RIAC and RUSI Report #32, 2017
At present, Russian-British relations are in deep crisis.
Will countries be able to restore a regular and systematic dialogue at the highest level?
What are the prospects for cooperation between Russia and Britain in the sphere of security, combating international terrorism and countering extremism, including in the Greater Middle East?
What mechanisms need to be worked out to strengthen confidence-building measures, prevent radicalization and develop cooperation...
On September 13, 2016 a group of members of the Russian International Affairs Council met in Moscow with Ambassador Susanne Baumann, Deputy Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control.
The meeting was attended by Yevgeny Buzhinsky, RIAC member, Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired); Andrey Zagorsky, Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies of the Center for International Security ...
On June 23-25, the
Institute for National Security Studies
of the Tel Aviv University (Israel) held an annual international conference on arms control in the changing world where nymerous experts, analytics, diplomats and journalists from Israel, the U.S., Germany, India, Turkey and other countries participated.
Russia was represented by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov who spoke ...
On October 4, the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., hosted a regular session of the Russian-U.S. bilateral Albright-Talbott-Ivanov Arms Control Initiative operating since 2011 within the cooperation framework between the Russian International Affairs Council and the Brookings Institution.
RIAC was represented by President Igor Ivanov and Director General Andrey Kortunov, as well ...
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Interview
The New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), signed at the dawn of President Obama’s first term in 2010 was considered a turning point in US-Russia relations. Now, with the US President reelected the current framework of the bilateral arms control may be enforced by further agreements.
General John J. Sheehan
, a distinguished expert on the “nuke agenda”, who formerly served as Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic for NATO and as Commander-in-Chief for the U.S. Atlantic Command ...
