... Council, its strategic partner.
The forum is especially important for RIAC as its members of staff and experts are given the opportunity to present the results of several of RIAC projects at all plenary sessions of the Conference.
Shortly before the conference, the Russian International Affairs Council was presented to the experts from different institutions of Finland, Russia, Sweden, Great Britain, India, China and other countries. The presentation aroused considerable interest.
RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov ...
... is a much more difficult task than finding its solution. This is the major challenge both pundits and foreign policy scholars are facing.”
These were the words of RIAC Director General
Andrey Kortunov
to define one of the goals of the
“Russia and the World” conference
, co-organized by RIAC, at its opening in the Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki, on October 23. Opening remarks were also made by
Markku Kivinen
,
Hanna Smith
(both Aleksanteri Institute), and
Aart de Geus
(Bertelsmann Foundation).
Dr. Kortunov ...
... boom was due to Saudi Arabia/OPEC pricing policy, as it was more to do with speculation, but still, as prices increased to all time highs US local producers decided to jump on the bandwagon. I doubt that the US will be able to overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia as some reports argue by 2017-2020, but potentially we could see this giant becoming a physical superpower, as well as being a virtual one, as the next paragraph will discuss.
USA, as the centre of virtual paper market influences prices substantially,...
... Dati’s denouncement of historical prejudice and their declaration that enabling the free movement of people and goods is a top priority, there might be some hope for that.
Step where?
RIAC President Mr Ivanov said in his closing remarks that Russia and the EU had taken a step towards each other at the conference. Maybe so; but we need not imagine any plans to be drawn up at an event like this. The main advancement made here was mutually admitting the inevitability of Russia-EU partnership.
Many agree that a common vision and mutual trust are preconditions ...
Mr Barroso talks about a partnership of choice, while Mr Medvedev calls for more pragmatism. Discussing their relations, European and Russian representatives were somewhat out of touch with each other at the international conference 'Russia and the EU: potential for partnership?', organised by RIAC and held in Moscow on March 21st
As if a code of conduct had been circulated amongst participants, throughout the three discussion panels of the conference there was a consensus ...
...
Dmitry Medvedev’s address
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Government of the Russian Federation
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Speech by President Barroso
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Official website of the European Union
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Presentation
by
Anatoly Chubais
, Co-chairman of EU-Russia Industrialists’ Round Table
International conference: “Russia and the European Union: partnership and its potential”, March 21, 2013
... Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and the Institute of the World Economy and International Affairs of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on 21 March this year the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) is conducting an
international conference: “Russia and the European Union: partnership and its potential”
.
Distinguished Russian and European policy-makers, academics, businessmen, public figures and experts will be discussing steps to be taken to implement the long-term project of Greater ...
... Mayan apocalypse as some may have felt, but in today’s world things change quickly making one ponder – what must be done to stop any changes, how to adapt to them if they occur and what if sceptics are right?
«Oil and Gas Dialogue: Russian Gas in the European Market» Joint International Forum held at IMEMO RAN conference hall on 7th December 2012; moderated by Ivanova N. I., RAN Academic and Associate Director of IMEMO RAN, and Eric Dam, General Director of Energy Delta Institute.
Optimism Remains Thin in the Air:
As the world continues to scuffle against ...
The 3rd International Conference coincided with a fairly damp economic climate and unstable political atmosphere across many energy exporting states, thus in all building up naturally not overly optimistic mood. However, in respect to the Russia situation it was far from bleak as instability was actually playing into its favour. Iran’s expulsion from the global political and economic landscape, clashes across Syria and Libya and Iraq’s failure to restart sizeable production ...
