... the challenges that are shattering the region. Brussels simply has neither resources, nor desire to do it.
RIAC Longread “Russia in the Balkans”: Interests of the Leading Actors, Russia’s Presence in Southeast Europe and Russia’s New Strategy
... ... Council" is a top priority. It would include representatives of Russia, the US, Great Britain, Turkey, France, Italy, Slovenia and Germany as international observers, with mediation on the part of the EU and the UN, and also envoys of all the Western Balkan ...
... suffered the greatest losses through the new U.S. strategy announced a year-and-a-half ago by President Donald Trump?
Clearly not Russia, whose relations with Washington were far from perfect even under the previous U.S. administration. Nor is it Mexico or ... ... neighbours so rapidly and radically. With the exception of Iran, Syria, Cuba and the other habitual targets of U.S. attacks, Germany and China have the most reason to be unhappy with the current U.S. policy.
Liana Fix:
The Times for a Special Relationship ...
... reports from the front lines. In reality, the project is one of the primary areas in Russia’s fight against the United States. Washington has been critical of major Russian... ... criticism, and a 2014 visit of U.S. senators to Bulgaria was soon followed by the refusal of the authorities in that country to go ahead with the Gazprom project to build... ... construction of Nord Stream 2 would actually benefit Poland. The more Russian gas going to Germany, the greater the surplus of the raw material that can subsequently be traded...
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Turkey and Germany: Souring Relations between Strategic Allies
The audit states that Germany, the Netherlands and Austria, all of which have a sizeable Turkish diaspora... ... the domestic events
that followed
. It is clear that, to paraphrase the words of the Russian poet Ivan Krylov, the “companions” within the European Union “don’t... ... organizations. Those arrested and accused of terrorism number in the hundreds of thousands. It should be remembered that, previously, in order to liberalize the visa regime...
... liberal global order” was proclaimed and upheld for a short while. And it is true that Russia had a hand in ruining it with its independent policy and actions in Ukraine and... ... World communism professed a similar doctrine in the twentieth century. Prior to that, crusaders and colonizers had tried to impose Christianity, now half-forgotten in the West... ... International law and norms of interstate relations were viciously trampled upon. In 1991, Germany and then the European Union as a whole recognized the independence of Croatia...
... (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) with participation of the German Association for East European Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, DGO) and German non-profit association Atlantik-Brücke organized public debate on the role of the U.S. and Russia in contemporary Europe and the prospects for development of relations between Germany, Washington, and Moscow.
On November 14, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) with participation of the German Association for East European Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, DGO) ...
...? How will the relations between Germany and the U.S. as well as between Russia and Germany develop in the short term?
In order to answer these questions, one should review the dynamics of the relations of the three countries up to the present date.
Russia-Germany-USA in the 2000s–2010s.
Concerning the dynamics of relations between Germany and the U.S., Russia and Germany over the past almost two decades, one should firstly keep in mind the serious historical inertia in the relations. Such inertia, in some cases,...
... at stimulating dialogue between members of parliaments of the two countries regarding international relations, security issues and globalization.
On February 20, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, spoke about prospects of relations within "Russia–EU–U.S." triangle.
... 17, a group of RIAC members and experts had a meeting with Gernot Erler, Special Representative of the Federal Government of Germany for the OSCE Chairmanship, German MFA Russia, Central Asia, and Eastern Partnership countries Policy Coordinator member of Bundestag Committee on Foreign Affairs, visiting ... ... East, possible resolutions of the Syrian conflict, perspective areas for Russia-West regional partnership, probable role of the USA in the Middle East, Donald Trump joining the office.
... became the latest in a series of events, held within the framework of a long-term US-European project on assessing the role of Germany in the future system of European security.
The event was attended by about forty experts, diplomats, government officials,... ... and the United States. RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov delivered a report at the seminar on the short-term prospects for Russia-West relations.
