On January 30, 2014 RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, Deputy Director of RAS Institute for European Studies Alexey Gromyko and RIAC Member Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russian in Global Affairs journal, met Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Marta Dassu who is on a visit in Moscow.
Devoted to the role of the Russian and EU think tanks in advancement of Moscow-Brussels cooperation through augmenting the official dialogue, the meeting also covered a possible bilateral think tank summit during...
On October 21, RIAC President
Igor Ivanov
met the new Italian Ambassador to Russia
Cesare Maria Ragaglini
to discuss the development of the Russian-Italian relations, Russia-EU interaction, and current international security issues.
Special attention was drawn to advancing bilateral inter-parliamentary contacts and the civil society dialog in the context of upcoming Italian presidency of the EU in the second half of 2014. Dr. Ivanov also talked about RIAC’s European projects and plans for...
... Center for European Integration at Institute of World Economy and International Relations Nadezhda Arbatova, and President of Institute for Energy and Finance Vladimir Feigin. The Italian side included Foreign Ministry and Embassy officers.
Conducted by Italy's Ambassador to Russia Antonio Zanardi, the gathering discussed the status and prospects of the bilateral dialog and certain aspects of relations between Russia and the European Union in the context of Italian EU Presidency the second half of 2014.
Separatists in Europe: Strangers among Friends
Separatism is most apparent in certain regions of such European Union members as Great Britain (Scotland, Northern Ireland), Spain (Catalonia, Basque Provinces), Belgium (Flanders), Italy (northern provinces), and France (Corsica). Separatist activity manifests not only within the political sphere, but sometimes (in Northern Ireland, Basque Country and Corsica) it also translates into terrorist attacks. A considerable number of separatists ...
