On March 6, 2014, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and MGIMO-University Pro-Rector Artyom Malgin, a RIAC member, visited Warsaw to speak at international conference "Poland-Russia: Balance Sheet 2014."
Organized by
Center for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding
, the event was a follow-up to the Russian-polish discussion during the February 26 seminar-situational analysis "East European Crisis through the ...
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Stanislav Secrieru:
To answer that question, we have to talk about more than the impact of the sanctions themselves against Russia on Polish–Russian relations. We cannot sidestep what is happening in Ukraine, which is a neighbour of both Russia and Poland. Russian-Polish relations are also aggravated by the economic situation inside Russia. These three factors have conspired to slow down the positive economic dynamic and have undermined the trust that the governments and non-governmental organisations had ...
... countries in the political, economic and humanitarian fields.
The meeting was opened by RIAC Director General Andrei Kortunov and Director of PISM Marcin Zaborowski.
The seminar’s first session was devoted to political and security cooperation between Russia and Poland. Presentations were made by Artyom Malgin, RIAC member and Vice-Rector for General Matters of MGIMO University, and Marcin Terlikowski, leader of the PISM European Security and Defence Economics Project. The seminar discussed Russian and Polish ...
Following the statements of Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna on the RMF FM radio station, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
Grigory Karasin said
it was "a disgrace to Poland's diplomatic service" for the Polish Foreign Minister to insist on his interpretation of Russia's role in World War II and insinuate about the format for celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Victory Day by disputing the grounds for Moscow ...
... Director of the Warsaw Centre for Eastern Studies, and representatives of Poland's Embassy in Moscow.
The sides focused on European security, possible development of Russia-EU relations in the context of Ukraine and European Union leadership reshuffle, Russia-Poland dialogue, as well as general issues of global politics.
... effectively. No matter how difficult the task, it is in all our interests to at least strive for a future that avoids that outcome.
Signed
Des Browne
Former Defence Secretary (UK) (Task Force Co-Chair);
Adam Daniel Rotfeld
Former Foreign Minister, (Poland) (Task Force Co-Chair);
Igor S. Ivano
v Former Foreign Minister, President, Russian International Affairs Council, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) (Task Force Co-Chair);
Özdem Sanberk
Director of the International Strategic Research Organisation, former Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign ...
On May 27, 2014 in Paris, Dr. Kortunov participated in the closed-door workshop “German, French Polish and Russian Opinions of Russia’s Foreign Policy” organized by the Committee on French-German Relations (
CEFRA
) and the French Institute for International Relations (
IFRI
).
Dr. Kortunov delivered a report on the political dimensions of energy ...
... overlapping and deepening security, economic, political and cultural cooperation between all countries and institutions in the region.
Creating such a zone will not be easy but drawing on the work of an impressive coalition of think tanks from the UK, Poland, Russia, Turkey and elsewhere in Europe, the signatories of this paper believe not only that we should try but that it is possible to lay the foundations of such a zone in the next decade by pursuing a series of distinct but well-coordinated initiatives ...
... Kortunov and MGIMO-University Pro-Rector Artyom Malgin, a RIAC Member (Russian-Polish Group on Difficult Issues), took part in the Russian-Polish roundtable on transparency of military exercises, European security and advancement of relations between Russia and Poland. The participants also discussed the latest analytical papers on bilateral relations prepared through cooperation between independent expert groups of the two countries.
The event was held in Warsaw within the format of the meeting of the Joint ...
... Humanities Information met Polish Ambassador to Moscow Wojciech Zajączkowski.
The participants discussed Russia-EU relations in the context of the forthcoming Eastern Partnership summit that will take place in Vilnius in late November, and current state of Russia-Poland relationship with the special focus on expanding bilateral cooperation between the civil society institutions, including the dialogue between independent experts and public leaders.