What Reforms to the UN Security Council Does the Global Community Suggest Today?
The decision to extend the mandate of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on June 27, 2018, giving the Technical Secretariat the power to identify those responsible for using chemical weapons in Syria, served as a wake-up call in the context of the lengthy discussion on the need to reform the UN Security Council. Investing the OPCW with prosecutorial powers sets a precedent in the post-war...
On May 24, Moscow hosts XIV Association of European Businesses Flagship Conference “Russia in the New Environment: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?” The annual conference gathers representatives of European industrial, financial, consulting and other companies operating in Russia, Russian and foreign experts studying problems in Russian-European economic and trade cooperation, international organizations oficials and diplomatic corps representatives.
RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov spoke at...
Despite all the ambiguity and contradictions of recent events, one thing is clear: in 2015, a bottom line was drawn underneath the long period of development of relations between Russia and its western neighbours. We need to acknowledge that relations between Russia and Europe will have to be built against a background of deep and sustained mutual distrust between government leaders, the political elite and society as a whole.
Russia’s relations with its western neighbours have blown hot and...
