... Economics. In the 1990s and the 2000s, he was a member of the Trilateral Commission, a leading organization that brought together the elites from the United States, Western Europe, he became (and still is) one of the most informed political scientists in Russia. In an interview to
BUSINESS Online
, he told us whether nuclear war is possible, whether we will become a satellite of China, and why some in the Russian government are against designing a new ideology.
— The special military operation [in ...
The development of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of the so-called integration dilemma
Authors:
Leonid E. Slutsky
, PhD in Economics.
The Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Head of the Department of International Relations and Integration Processes
Elena А. Khudorenko
, PhD in Political Science,
The Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Department of International Relations and Integration Processes
Deputy Head
...
On November 26, 2021 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) held a round table “International Cooperation in the Fight against COVID-19: Russian and Chinese Approaches”
On November 26, 2021 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) held a round table “International Cooperation in the Fight against COVID-19: Russian and Chinese ...
... forward the four common spaces, the New Basic Agreement, crisis management, visa-free regime, etc. And we were not the ones who all of a sudden stopped all this.
I was working in Brussels myself back then, and could witness that with my own eyes.
2. The Russia-EU political dialogue was designed exactly to promote greater understanding, overcome differences, find a common ground on regional issues. Breaking through the pandemic of COVID-19 we are now gradually resuming it at different levels.
President Putin and President of the European Council Charles Michel regularly talk over the phone, with four of such conversations having taken place this year. Minister Lavrov and High Representative ...
... migration flows, which resulted in the exacerbation of labour shortages across the major migrant recipient countries, such as Russia. There was also a notable blow delivered by the pandemic to the spheres of human capital development such as education ... ... than 1.5 billion students and youth across the planet are or have been affected by school and university
closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic
”. On top of the adverse effects on the younger generation (see Box 1), there is also the widening “teachers ...
... crisis, the global oil market began to falter again and energy prices became volatile. Negotiations between OPEC Plus members became more difficult, partly due to the non-participation in the negotiations of the US, the third-largest oil producer after Russia and Saudi Arabia. Demand in the COVID-19 era began to fall sharply and additional cuts in oil production were required. However, oil players did not immediately manage to reach a compromise. In March an oil conflict broke out between Russia and Saudi Arabia when Russia did not agree ...
... Delhi’s perspectives on the current global, regional and bilateral trends. The event was structured into three sessions, dedicated to these respective levels.
Kanwal Sibal, Former Indian Foreign Secretary and Ambassador to Turkey, Egypt, France and Russia, and Victoria Panova, Vice Rector for International Relations at the Far Eastern Federal University, Managing Director of the National Committee of BRICS Research and RIAC Member, spoke during the first session “Post-Covid-19 Global and Regional Trends.”
Anil Wadhwa, Former Secretary (East) of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and former Ambassador to Italy, Poland, Thailand, and Oman, and Andrey Volodin, Head of the Group of Regional Political Problems of ...
... Russia and China's so-called "vaccine diplomacy," claiming that the two countries are pursuing geopolitical interests through vaccine exports and aid. What do you think of it?
Denisov:
China has so far provided at least 350 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines overseas. Russia's vaccines exports are not as large as China's, but it has cooperated with 66 countries. San Marino has beaten the outbreak with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine. At the same time, Russia has also taken the lead in proposing providing relevant technology ...
... for their SWFs. Additionally, it would act as an emergency tool in easing the impact of a global crisis, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, as it can be employed as an anti-crisis measure via the investments of the G20 states’ SWFs. One important ... ... turn would support the advancement of a green recovery in the global economy in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic.
As regards Russia’s sovereign wealth funds, most notably the National Wellbeing Fund (NWF), which by Q1 2021 has accumulated more than ...
... from friends and colleagues from various think-tanks across the globe – from Italy, from China, Argentina, US, UK, and many other countries. Often these were expressions of solidarity not only with my colleagues from Valdai, but more broadly with Russia and its people.
Whatever the grand ideas and writings coming from the many think tanks around the world, it is the simple words of support and solidarity that rang most deeply in the many exchanges throughout the past year.
I have also come to ...
