... Ukrainian crisis, no ‘business as usual’ is possible in any foreseeable future; Moscow and Berlin continue to sharply disagree on many critically important international matters. Germany is and will always be a disciplined member of NATO and that of the European Union; it will not take any initiatives that might look risky, inappropriate or untimely to other members of these organizations. To cut it short, there are absolutely no reasons to hope for any breakthrough in the German-Russian relations just ...
... foundations and non-profit organizations, as well as the representatives of diplomatic missions accredited in Berlin, including Russian Embassy, took part in the conference. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Markus Ederer, Ambassador of the European Union to the Russian Federation, made speeches at the first session of the Conference.
... hopefully, to see how U.S.–Russia relations will develop moving forward. Everyone understands that any significant step taken by the two countries to meet each other halfway will lead to positive changes in the world and contribute to the strengthening of international security.
RIAC and CSIS Report “Policy Priorities in U.S.-Russia Relations”
To a great degree, U.S.–Russia relations have historically depended on the personal relations between the leaders of the two countries. Each new chapter in ...
... the European Union. To mitigate this additional tension, the overall situation needs to be rectified through dialogue with the European Union, NATO and the two aforementioned countries.
The most urgent goal at the moment is to mitigate the risks of military ... ... with NATO in the form of providing the Baltic Transit Train in support of non-military deliveries and reverse transit for the International Security Assistance Force with the use of the transportation and logistics infrastructure owned by Russia and the ...
On November 9, Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, and Dmitry Danilov, RIAC expert, Head of the European Security Department RAS Institute of Europe, had a meeting with David Kral, Director of the Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, visiting Moscow, to discuss the European security issues, relations between Russia, the Czech Republic and Visegrad Group member states, EU international sanctions towards Russia...
On October 20, 2016 the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy and the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung) held an international seminar “The Silk Road Economic Belt: In Search of EU’s and China’s Common Interests in the Field of Security.”
This workshop is the fourth in a series of international events, aimed at analyzing various...
... military, mostly from the EU member countries.
Alexey Gromyko, RIAC member and Director of the RAS Institute of Europe, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, took part in the work of the Dahrendorf Symposium and addressed the meeting.
Programme
European Union in the World 2025 – Scenarios for External Relations
... forums for discussing development and security issues of the continent.
This year’s LMC entitled “Shaping the New Normal” focused on the impact of the Ukrainian factor, migration crisis, rise of populism, acute financial problems of the European Union and other numerous destabilizing factors on the situation in Europe. The participants discussed the future of the European institutions, the prospects for relations between the European Union and the United States, the situation in the ...
... its primary additive components – NATO, the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe. The continuation of this article is dedicated to what practice has shown to be a number of misconceptions about the European Union on the part of Russia. About what it represents, how it functions, the values it represents. About how and in whose interests it interacts with the rest of the world. And with Russia.
The Confused Perception of the EU and NATO
It’s hard ...
... open basically new opportunities for the EU-Russia bilateral format because the positions of any member state can be averaged by compromises with other participants, which implies a more balanced and depoliticized dialogue with outside actors like the European Union.
Some of the ideas presented in the report appear debatable.
First of all, there seems to be every ground to contend with the perception of Russia as a country building its foreign policy predominantly on force and using interventionist ...
