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Russia's expectation from the upcoming elections is the appointment of a president that will shift the policy from one of radicalisation and confrontation towards opening a more constructive dialogue The upcoming Ukrainian elections are of crucial significance ...
Relations with Kiev Should be Built on the Same Principles as those with, for Instance, Warsaw, Bratislava or Bucharest Nearly five years have passed since the start of the dramatic events of the Maidan in Kiev that engendered a profound crisis in Russia’s relations with both Ukraine and the West. This is not a short period of time: World War I lasted a little over four years, about five years passed between the start of Perestroika and the collapse of the USSR. All wars and crises come to an ...
This report is based on the results of discussions held by the EU–Russia Expert Network in 2017 and 2018. Four years after the fallout over Ukraine, rivalry and sanctions have become the ‘new normal’ between Russia and the EU. Both sides have become used to a state of affairs where relations are mired in inertia,...
... constant trilateral dialogue that has been held since 2015. The current meeting covers political situation in Russia following the presidential elections and in Ukraine at the beginning of the electoral cycle, the possible role of the EU and the US in Ukrainian crisis resolution, and the modality of the potential UN peacekeeping operation in the Eastern Ukraine. Russian participants include RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, RIAC experts Dmitry Danilov and Sergey Utkin, as well as Tatyana Parkhalina, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, and Lev Gudkov, Director ...
... sides. On the one hand, the recent sharp deterioration of political and economic ties with Europe has made Russian foreign policy more one-sided, with all of the evident shortcomings. On the other hand, in the absence of a constructive engagement with Russia, the European voice has become less articulated and less influential in international relations. The Ukrainian crisis, all of its negative consequences notwithstanding, has clearly demonstrated that it is impossible to provide for stability on the European continent without a close political, economic and security cooperation between Russia and major ...
Washington is resolved to damaging Russia under Putin as much as it can. But Russia doesn't have to take a hard line This year is the beginning of a new cycle in Russia’s foreign policy. The result of the upcoming presidential election is quite certain: Polls indicate Vladimir Putin ...
... significance of this issue is obvious to Moscow as well, it is difficult to imagine a situation in which Russia would agree to have its current legal status in the conflict changed. Such a concession would entail a significant revision of the official Russian narrative with regard to the Ukrainian crisis (“the conflict in Donbass is a civil war situation in Ukraine”), as well as a rejection of Russia’s primary achievement in the Minsk II Agreement. At present, Moscow’s position looks stronger than that of Kiev: neither Europe ...
... Euro-Atlantic Region Reactions in Russia to the processes that have been taking place in Europe over the past few years have been fuelled more by emotions than pragmatism. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the response to Europe’s condemnation of Russia’s actions with regard to the Ukrainian crisis. The initial resentment turned into a blistering campaign to convince everyone that European values, and indeed everything related to Europe, is organically alien to Russia, which represents an independent civilization and should mark ...
... gone wrong over the past two years. An international collision over Ukraine began in early 2014, driven by incompatible aspirations on the part of the involved countries. Ukraine sought to protect its sovereignty and to draw closer to the EU and NATO. Russia was trying to halt the eastward spread of Western security structures and to retain political leverage over Ukraine. France and Germany were eager to see European security restored and to contain what they perceived as Russian aggression. As with ...
... experts, diplomats, government officials, representatives of international organizations and journalists from European countries and the United States. RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov delivered a report at the seminar on the short-term prospects for Russia-West relations.
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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