... procedures for such a dialogue.
Second, we have to agree on a set of urgent means to avoid the threat of an inadvertent conflict in Europe. Moreover, we need to find ways to start rebuilding predictability and trust. Some of the proposals to this end we have ... ... disposal.
Third, we need to start a discussion on common security threats and challenges — probably within the NATO — Russia Council framework. I do not think that it would be too difficult to start such a discussion, but it is critically important ...
... and Russia is not a champion of communism and the international left—admire Putin’s authoritarianism and see him as a defender of the West, a newly increasingly illiberal, rather than liberal, West, and Russian support for right-wing pro-Russian parties in Europe is hardly limited to propaganda and disinformation: Russia has been orchestrating loans to right-wing parties all over Europe, including (but hardly limited) to France. And Trump and his advisor Bannon have made no secret that they want to ally ...
On November 28 the Institute of Europe hosted the Third Annual International Conference «In Search of Joint Responses to Threats and Challenges to European Security».
The conference brought together leading Russian and foreign experts in European security issues to discuss the key European and Euro-Atlantic institutions’ (EU, OSCE, NATO) evolution of strategies, possibilities for Russian and Western rapprochement, external challenges, and untraditional threats to the European security....
... state-owned energy company, the joint venture being called UkrGazEnergo.
But there was another key factor in the deal: RAO EUS—Russia’s major and majority-state-owned power company—would import Ukrainian-generated electricity into European Russia, with RUE providing that energy from the gas it was importing from Turkmenistan into Ukraine, gas RUE would buy from its own UkrGazEnergo joint-venture after it had already sold that gas to Naftogaz; RUE would then sell this gas to Ukrainian power ...
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Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
) held a seminar “European Security: Challenges at the Societal Level.”
The participants of the seminar discussed the draft report prepared by the OSCE Network and addressed the following issues: the future of the European order; Russian and Western interests in the military-political and economic spheres; challenges and threats to security, as well as tools to ensure the latter; compliance with the principles and norms of international law.
The seminar was attended by the authors ...
Working Paper #31/2016
Russia and the EU proceed on the basis that “business as usual” is no longer possible.
However, neither of them has specified what legacy of their relations before the crisis they are willing or ready to sacrifice, except for the strategic partnership ...
... negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, nobody questions the deep interdependence between Europe and the United States.
By the same token, we should recognize that despite all the profound disagreements and contradictions between Europe and Russia, we need each other. Of course, Europeans and Russians have partners all over the world, but Russia does not have an alternative to working with Europe, and Europe does not have an alternative to working with Russia.
If we agree with this judgement,...
... harsh, is getting harsher; and Chechnya, once the main trouble spot on Russia’s map, is tightly controlled by a strongman, Ramzan Kadyrov, who calls himself “Putin’s soldier”.
That said, there are considerable differences between Russia and Western Europe, the principal target of ISIS-inspired or –affiliated attackers. In Russia, Muslims and the Orthodox Christian majority have lived side-by-side for centuries. Integration has not always been perfect, but an acceptable modus vivendi exists,...
A close look at the tangled web of relationships involving Trump, his Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, his campaign in general, Putin, Russia, and WikiLeaks in light of the DNC and Clinton-aimed related hacking is not reassuring. Trump is fond of using the phrase: "There's something going on!" when he wants to imply a scandal without going into detail. Well, "There's ...
... cultivated through wider civil society dialogue, more balanced media coverage, the preservation of existing economic links and expert discussions. Only this conceptual settlement will reverse the current ‘divide-unite’ split in favour of more unity.
Russia and Europe: Somewhat Different, Somewhat the Same?
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