On November 16 Sweden’s Ministry of Defense Delegation, namely Jörgen Cederberg, Senior Adviser, Department for Security and International Relations, Ministry of Defense, and Håkan Andersson, Military Adviser, visited Russian International Affairs Council....
On April 19, 2016, the Russian International Affairs Council received a delegation of Sweden's Ministry of Defence led by Jörgen Cederberg, Senior Adviser of the Ministry’s Department for Security and International Relations.
The guests were familiarized with RIAC’s projects on international cooperation in the Arctic,...
On March 18, 2016 Efraim Gomez, Director of the Department for the Security Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Efraim Gomez (), met with RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov at the Embassy of Sweden in Moscow.
The meeting was moderated by Sweden’s Ambassador to Russia Peter Ericson. During the meeting the sides discussed issues of developing the United ...
On February 17, 2016 RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and Vice-President of PIR-Center Dmitry Polikanov met at the Embassy of Sweden in Russia with Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador Krister Bringéus, who had arrived in Moscow within the framework of a government project to analyze Sweden’s international defense- and security cooperation.
The participants ...
... “bricks” for dealing with specific issues can be quickly put together.
Are there any examples of alternative methods being used successfully to solve problems of national security? Of course there are. Just look at the experience of Finland and Sweden after World War II. These two northern European countries decided upon a policy of neutrality – both will follow their own paths depending on geopolitical circumstances and taking their own complex, and at times dramatic, history into account....
On November 10, 2015, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and Program Manager Natalia Yevtikhevich received Märta Karlsson and Kaan Korkmaz of Swedish Defense Research Agency (
FOI
) accompanied by Second Secretary of Swedish Embassy to Moscow Emil Gelebo.
The meeting participants discussed Middle East security, political settlement in Syria, Russian-American relations and other aspects of Russia’s foreign policy.
... Åland Islands and Gotland. He has urged Finland to consider organizing the defence of these territories, calling for the coordinated efforts of the Ministry of Defence of Finland, the border service, the authorities of the Åland Islands and Sweden.
Is using hypothetical scenarios to call for the abandonment of the international status of the Åland Islands as a demilitarized zone, a status which it has held since 1856.
Political and military leaders of Niinistö’s rank should ...
The fates of Sweden, Norway and Denmark during the Second World War were different. Sweden opted for neutrality, whereas Denmark and Norway fell victims to Nazi aggression. Each Scandinavian nation has its own historical memory of the events that took place in those ...
... European political space, this time on its northern flank. Slightly more than a century ago, the international order in the Europe’s north and in the Baltic was regulated by the St. Petersburg Declaration on the Baltic signed by Russia, Germany, Sweden and Denmark, which established mutual commitments from the regional leaders to maintain the territorial and political status quo and strengthen “the ties of good neighborhood and friendship.”
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. Although the Baltic Declaration carried ...
... interests of the countries and peoples of Northern Europe to maintain and consolidate the zone of peace and stability in the region. This is not to say that those countries do not include political forces that are ready to support the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO and to help these states become deeply integrated into the military and political structures of the North Atlantic treaty, or, on the other hand, very influential political and social circles that are firmly against such a turn of events....