Starting to heat up the internet (well, at least in Russia and Eastern Ukraine, while likely not even to be acknowledged in Western Europe) is a hacked telephone call last week between the former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council Nestor Shufrich and the former Prime Minister, recently-freed-from-prison, media darling Yulia Tymoshenko. The recording, which lasts just over two minutes, pulls no punches as Tymoshenko and Shufrich basically excoriate everyone associated with...
These are the days of our Spring discontent. It is ironic to consider that as events continue to unfold in Crimea the path that might hold the most hope for future peace and stability is the one that guarantees all sides being at least somewhat disappointed. Allow me to elaborate:
Why Ukraine should be disappointed: Crimea is done. As the famous Southern saying in America goes, ‘closing the barn door after the horses have left doesn’t do much good.’ Authorities in Kiev are understandably...
March 16, 2014 marks the day when the people of Crimea go to the voting booths to decide whether they will be part of Ukraine or part of Russia. While the referendum is no doubt important to people living in Crimea, I for one remain highly skeptical that the results will actually be the ultimate arbiter on the territorial decisions made about Crimea. The outside players, namely Ukraine, Russia, the United States, and the European Union, are simply too big and too influential to let this small peninsula...
I have some bad news for the United States. Russia doesn’t listen to America. Unfortunately, I have worse news: contrary to what many specialists, analysts, and commentators across the transatlantic community may think, it is not because Russia is trying to rekindle the Cold War or desperately grasping at whatever remnants of old Soviet power it used to have. No, I’m afraid Russia doesn’t listen to America because of the unfortunate tendency by the US to act like a geopolitical...
... (see
complete list
) the 2nd Russian Contest of Young Foreign Affairs Journalists organized together with the “International Affairs” journal and the Russian Union of Journalists. The winners of the contests are:
Best Analytical Article on International Relations:
First Prize – Yulia Sveshnikova (
Iranian Atom: Will It Lead to a War
)
Second Prize – Dhruti Shah (
Culture Wars: Why Attack Heritage?
)
Second Prize – Gevorg Mirzayan (
The Revolution Went Berserk
)
Best Report ...
Finalists of the II all-Russian competition for young RIAC journalists specializing in international relations have been selected.
After due expert examination it has been decided that the finalists of the contest are:
The best analytical article on international relations
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1.
Avatkov Vladimir – «
Turkey and the countries ...
Interview with Fyodor Lukyanov
Interview
There has been a lot of talk lately about the UN General Assembly resolution on Syria being a harbinger of a new stage in world politics. We have met
Fyodor Lukyanov
, Editor-in-Chief of the Russia in Global Affairs journal and Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, to assess this opinion and discuss the possibility of the global center of power shifting from the Euro-Atlantic to Asia Pacific.
Mr. Lukyanov, how would you...
This is the first paper in a series devoted to the art of diplomacy, a lecture read by Yuri V. Dubinin, Professor of the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO-University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, to the students of Moscow Linguistic University. In our age of public and social diplomacy, it appears critical to gain a clear understanding about the purpose of these activity and ways to accomplish the emerging objectives.
Dear friends!
Let us talk about the art...
