... aimed at demonstrating Russia’s readiness to offer a stern response to U.S. plans to deploy anti-missile components in Eastern Europe. This is indirectly confirmed by the fact that no more statements of the kind were issued as the relationship between the ... ... States, the first public statements indicating Washington’s intention to revise the INF Treaty were made in 2014, with accusations of breaching of the Treaty levelled against Russia. Following Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, ...
How and when can the USA, Europe and Russia move forward from impasse and start to rebuild the more rational forms of relationship which would suit the interests of all?
“…the American, Soviet, and British governments did indeed try to bring the monster [nuclear weapons] ...
The meeting was organized by the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, the USA, at Tufts European University Center, Talloires, France
On June 9–10 Talloires (France) hosted a Russian-American expert meeting «Managing Global Disorder: Prospects for U.S.-Russia Cooperation».
The meeting was organized by the
Council on Foreign Relations
...
On February 9, RIAC welcomed a delegation from PIMCO (Pacific Investment Management Company).
PIMCO
is one of the key investment funds on the global stock market. The total value of assets under the company's management is over U.S. $1,8 billion.
The delegation included Francesc Balcells, executive Vice-President, portfolio manager, London; Matthieu Loriferne, executive Vice-President, credit research analyst, London; Yacov Arnapolin, senior portfolio manager in developing markets, London; Alexander...
... London. The event is traditionally organized by Nuclear Threat Initiative with the participation of European Leadership Network. The Group unites former and sitting high-ranking officials, diplomats, government representatives and businessmen from the USA, Great Britain, France, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Netherlands, Sweden and other European countries.
The main goal of the organization is to elaborate proposals on new approaches to European and Atlantic security, formulated at the beginning of 2015 by Igor Ivanov, RIAC President, Sam Nunn, former US senator and Desmond Browne, UK ...
... additional cyberattacks by Putin, additional military harassment in the Black and Baltic seas, and further aggression in Eastern Europe.
Yes, incredulously, Obama imagined that turning a blind eye to Russian interference in domestic American elections ... ... to and through Election Day, it is now quite clear that Russia’s propaganda machine of hundreds of websites and many thousands of social media accounts—some unwittingly duped, others complicit or even an army of paid agents—posted many ...
... limit Russian influence in Ukraine. Unsurprisingly, some of the disputes between Ukraine and Russia involved fighting over gas deals. This all culminated in a January, 2006, shut-off of Russia’s gas flow into Ukraine and therefore into much of Europe as well, which got the vast majority of its gas from pipes passing through Ukrainian territory.
Soon after the shutoff, a new arrangement was made: RUE would now be the exclusive and direct supplier of all natural gas coming from Central Asia ...
... Moldova and the Transcaucasia countries. German political foundations and organization have their branches all over the post-Soviet space, with businesses following suit. Before the Russia-EU freeze in 2014, Russia had been swept by more than
six thousand German firms
, only proving that German diplomacy and businesses go hand in hand helping each other.
Germany's European policy rejects any sort of hint of military confrontation, while the focus is on dynamic engagement of business for advancing German leadership in Europe, first of all in East Europe. As a matter of fact, the German economy is explicitly export-oriented ...
... a press conference that he is considering lifting sanctions on Russia and recognizing its annexation of Crimea.
Trump also doesn’t think that there is enough evidence to blame Russia for the downing of MH17.
Trump defended Putin against accusations that he was behind the murders of numerous Russian journalists critical of Putin.
Most recently, Trump signaled less-than-enthusiastic, vague, and conditional support for NATO and has calling it “obsolete,” while the weakening of ...
To What Extent Does the U.S. Aegis BMD in Europe Threaten Russia?
In May 2016, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency announced that its ballistic missile defence (BMD) base at Deveselu, Romania, had been put into operation. This marked the second phase of the European Phased Adaptive ...