On September 30, 2016 the Russian International Affairs Council in cooperation with the
Consortium of American, European and Russian universities
held a round table “Prospects for Russia-West relations”.
The discussion covered the prospects for development of Russia-EU-US relations following Brexit, the presidential election in the United States, and the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
The discussion was attended ...
Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), thinks that greater cooperation between Russia and Western powers is possible in Syria and that the Russian people, like its counterparts,... ... targeting Islamic State (ISIS). The popular perception however, in Europe as well as in the USA, looked more positive. Does it mean there’s room for greater future cooperation... ... anti-terrorist coalition like the one that they had during the Second World War.
3) The European Union (EU) has enforced economic sanctions against Russia because of the conflict...
... key event affecting global security and international relations. In fact, the situation has been analyzed at length both by Russian and Western experts, although much of the work has been deplorably biased and lopsided.
To this end, the analysis offered by
RIAC
... ... seem to be possible. The freezing of the East Ukraine conflict will very likely prevent Kiev’s accession to
NATO
or
European Union
at least in the near future, because neither organization will admit states that have unsettled territorial disputes ...
Russia enjoys a unique geopolitical position between the leading ... ... collapse of the Soviet Union, relations between Russia and the West have been oscillating between warm and varying degrees of ... ... Russia if not as an adversary than at least as a major rival of the European Union and the United States.
Any Russian action on the ... ... new cold spells in its relations with the West, and mutual accusations. But we should not be too concerned about that. An independent ...