Russia’s preservation of its statehood and sovereignty again becomes the main stake of the conflict. The statehood of Ukraine is another stake
In Russia, the point of view that the goal of the United States and the “collective West” headed by ...
... by an eminent scholar.
The official position clearly differs from the solutions proposed in the article. Last November, the Russian Foreign Ministry explicitly stressed the inadmissibility of the use of nuclear weapons, limiting this possibility to the ... ... thirty years. And yet, it materialized. Maybe it is time to break down the habitual scheme of things?
Aleksey Arbatov:
The Ukrainian Crisis and Strategic Stability
Regardless of the motives behind this proposal, it requires rational reflection, considering ...
... the U.S./NATO provocative expansion since 1990 that broke all the well-documented promises made at the time by the West’s leaders to Mikhail Gorbachev about not expanding NATO one inch eastwards if he accepted a re-unified Germany in NATO.
The NATO-Russia
deadlock
that has led to the
conflict
in Ukraine served only a pretext to what has been going on the last roughly three decades, ending so far—to mention a few instances—in Denmark’s role as faraway bomber nation since 1999 and negotiations ...
Both New Delhi and Moscow have to sort out problems with their archrivals in order to approach conflicts in their neighbourhoods with more confidence and to enhance the efficacy of multilateral security arrangements
India and Russia are two great powers located in the South and the North of the vast Eurasian continent, and it is for a good reason that they both claim a proactive role in establishing an international order on the continent as well as globally. The two countries ...
... operation almost
instantaneously
, or perhaps even before given the narrative about Ukraine’s possible
prospects of getting nuclear weapons
.
Since February 24, the nuclear
topic has appeared in several dimensions in remarks made by different actors:
Russia’s statements concerning the
consequences third parties will face
should they become militarily involved in the armed conflict (“the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history”, which is unequivocally interpreted ...
Relations with Kiev Should be Built on the Same Principles as those with, for Instance, Warsaw, Bratislava or Bucharest
Nearly five years have passed since the start of the dramatic events of the Maidan in Kiev that engendered a profound crisis in Russia’s relations with both Ukraine and the West. This is not a short period of time: World War I lasted a little over four years, about five years passed between the start of
Perestroika
and the collapse of the USSR. All wars and crises come to an ...
This report is based on the results of discussions held by the EU–Russia Expert Network in 2017 and 2018.
Four years after the fallout over Ukraine, rivalry and sanctions have become the ‘new normal’ between Russia and the EU. Both sides have become used to a state of affairs where relations are mired in inertia,...
... experts, diplomats, government officials, representatives of international organizations and journalists from European countries and the United States. RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov delivered a report at the seminar on the short-term prospects for Russia-West relations.
... John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
On October 20, 2015 RIAC held a meeting with foreign experts on “Russian and Western Views on Conflict Resolution and Security Challenges”. Not surprisingly, two most discussed and difficult ... ...
REUTERS/Alexei Nikolsky/RIA Novosti
Ivan Timofeev:
7 Trends for Russian Foreign
Policy You Need to Know
Do you think that the Ukrainian crisis affects neighboring countries in the region?
Absolutely. Russian occupation and military interference within ...
Syria and especially Ukraine appear to be inflection points in the trajectory of Russian foreign policy
Ivan Timofeev, who participated in the annual meeting of Valdai International Discussion Club is giving a talk on the outline of future Russian foreign policy.
After the Ukraine crisis and military intervention in Syria, the key ...