... Russia has to tackle
The Ukrainian conflict has effectively overhauled the challenges and threats that Russia faces. We have had next to no such precedent in our history. The accumulation of shocks and their cumulative effect can impinge both on the society and on Russia’s statehood. There will be no going back, while scenarios of the future—previously considered highly unlikely—have emerged.
The uniqueness of the threat configuration paradoxically coexists with the standard nature of the set ...
Today, the Russian society is in a state of extreme excitement and even exaltation. But public sentiments can and should be managed
The interim results of the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul unsurprisingly produced a surge of optimism among all those in Moscow who ...
... gender, age, and regional identity. One of the major surprises was the perception of the ‘Russian Dream’ as most desirable regardless of demographic, political and regional cleavages. A liberal alternative turned out to be the most favourable in a society which is generally thought to be
illiberal
in character. However, all groups thought this scenario to be the least probable. ‘Kremlin’s Gambit’ came second in terms of desirability and first in terms of probability. The ‘Russian Mosaic’ ...
For Kazakhstan, a transformation of its economic model should become the crucial consequence of the January rioting
Preconditions for protests
The deepening gap between what can be seen as economic successes and the low quality of life that a majority of the population has to endure, coupled with a super-concentration of national wealth in the hands of the elite and a resource-based economy that depends on large international companies and the situation on the world market, seem to have become...
No European society can exist until the EU becomes a nation state or is substituted by it
The notion of “society” was elaborated on in the 19
th
century. It was coined to grasp the ongoing changes: the Industrial Revolution, the proliferation of capitalism,...
Within the framework of the seminar the state of the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, the roots of the crisis, and possible steps to stabilizing the situation were discussed
On October 14, 2021, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) with the Human Rights Watch (HRW) held a seminar “Possible Solutions to Humanitarian Problems in Afghanistan”. The goal of the meeting was to discuss possible ways out of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, as well as exchange opinions on...
The current state of severe economic turbulence prefers a dominant, state-controlled, centralized economy, while experiments with market economy are phased out
Over the past two or three years, media outlets all across the globe have been emphasizing North Korea’s growing isolation from the outside world, marking the country’s inevitable economic slump, which may potentially lead to the dissolution of the state.
The economic siege appears to come from two fronts: international sanctions and sanctions...
The Sunday coup d’état apparently came to be a by-product of the more general political process in Guinea, following up on the events of October, 2019
“Guinea is beautiful: we don’t need to rape it anymore. We just need to make love to her.”
— Mamady Doumbouya
More often than not, news coming from countries in Africa remain somewhere on the periphery of our news feeds, seemingly carrying little significance for global politics and world economy as compared to other macro-regions. Many of us, Russians...
... building, personal and public security, etc. The linear increase of private and public consumption is not sustainable; it will give way to the much more nuanced indicators of ‘smart consumption’. Moreover, the whole concept of the ‘consumption society’ will undergo quite radical changes. Countries will more and more often compete with each other in terms of the overall opportunities for self-fulfillment which they can offer to their citizens rather than in simple GNP per capita terms.
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On July 23–24, 2021, 49th regular plenary meeting of the International Business Elite Forum, organized semiannually under the auspices of the RAND Business Leaders Forum since 1997, was held online.
On July 23–24, 2021, 49th regular plenary meeting of the International Business Elite Forum, organized semiannually under the auspices of the RAND Business Leaders Forum since 1997, was held online.
The following reports were presented by RIAC members at the meeting: Andrey Kortunov spoke about Moscow’s...
