GRANI Project Interview with RIAC Director General Ivan Timofeev
The GRANI Project’s Oleg Yankovsky interviews special guest Ivan Timofeev, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, PhD in Political Science.
In the interview they discussed:
The role of states in international relations
The evolution of the world system following the end of the Cold War and its consequences
The conflict in Ukraine ...
Policy Brief #52/2024
Policy Brief #52/2024
The role of Central Asian countries in regional and global political processes has increased significantly recently. Russia and China have contributed to this growth more than any other extra-regional player, diversifying their trade and economic ties with Central Asian countries, demonstrating an interest in strengthening their “sustainable security.” At the same ...
... Hassakeh. These areas also have minorities from Chechnya, Circassia, Assyria and Turkmen, along with Kurds, and ancient Arab clans and tribes.
It is evident that achieving reconciliation among all conflicting factions in Syria is the desired outcome for Russia, which is entangled in conflicts with the West and the crisis in Ukraine. Moscow has taken numerous measures to facilitate normalization between Syria and Arab nations, as well as between Damascus and Ankara, ever since Russia's direct military ...
... Director General of the International Relations Institute of the Royal Academy of Cambodia
Kin Phea, Director General of the International Relations Institute of the Royal Academy of Cambodia, spoke in an interview for RIAC about the prospects for Russian-Cambodian relations and developing cooperation on international platforms. The interview was prepared on the margins of the Gorchakov Fund Conference “Asian Dialogue 2024”.
What successful economic, political and humanitarian bilateral projects ...
The most erroneous way for Russian policy to develop in Asia would be for Moscow to concentrate on interaction with regional institutions and platforms - “brotherly cemeteries”, where individual opportunities are drowned in the need for everyone to come to a common average ...
Policy Brief #51 / 2024
Policy Brief #51 / 2024
The Russian-Chinese “comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction of the new era” represent a key element of the emerging multipolar world order. Moscow and Beijing’s mutual support in the international arena, growing trade turnover in the face ...
On the transformation which was hard to imagine even five years ago
The last time Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin was almost five years ago, in September 2019. The following year, the pandemic broke out, and the Russian leader did not pay a return visit until December 2021. A few months later, the Ukraine crisis began, and ...
... self-proclaimed Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, while to the west, the real power on the ground is often held by various armed groups and militias.
Ruslan Mamedov, Grigory Lukyanov:
Playing Pick-Up-Sticks in Libya
In 2020, thanks to the mediation of Russia and Turkey, a ceasefire was established in Libya, making it possible to stop large-scale armed clashes between the LNA and the GNU forces that had lasted since April 2019 and to start resetting of the political process in late 2020–early 2021....
On July 1, 2024, a high-level Indian delegation headed by Lieutenant General D S Rana, Deputy Chief of Integrated Defense Staff of India, visited the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)
On July 1, 2024, a high-level Indian delegation headed by Lieutenant General D S Rana, Deputy Chief of Integrated Defense Staff of India, visited the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
During the ...
... order” is perceived as imposed by Washington, and international organizations—which ought to act as arbitrators—are instead seen as passing off Western sanctions and military interventions as the will of the international community. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, “The global majority, representing 85 percent of the world’s population, advocates a more equitable distribution of global resources and respect for cultural diversity, as well as consistent democratization ...
