... scope. However, the Greater Eurasian Partnership concept did not focus on security issues, but they took centre stage in the new initiative put forward by the Russian President in 2024.
Eurasian security architecture: Key components
Julia Melnikova:
Eurasian Security as a Communicative Practice: Tasks for Russia and China
In his Address to the Federal Assembly on February 29, 2024, President Vladimir Putin emphasised the importance of forming a new framework of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia and expressed his willingness to launch a substantive dialogue ...
On October 27, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in collaboration with the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) held a closed roundtable on "Eurasian Security in the Context of Global Turbulence: Challenges, Cooperation Formats, and Balance of Interests."
On October 27, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in collaboration with the China Institute of International ...
... While the agreement to keep discussions of bilateral issues off the SCO framework is still in place, moments of heightened confrontation may produce dramatic political gestures, such as a refusal to sign a
joint summit declaration
.
Julia Melnikova:
Eurasian Security as a Communicative Practice: Tasks for Russia and China
All the more notable, then, was the meeting between the Indian and Chinese leaders in Tianjin. Paradoxically, it was the bilateral talks between Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping that captured international attention. The parties discussed the need ...
... balancing power in East Asia. In the North East Asia region that approach implied that along with heavily investing into Russia-China relations, the Kremlin also tried to explore economic and even political opportunities with Seoul and with Tokyo. In addressing ... ... in local territorial disputes and to enhance bilateral relations with ASEAN nations, especially with Vietnam.
Ivan Timofeev:
Eurasian Security Architecture: Five Questions and Five Answers
Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine ...
RIAC, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International Studies at Fudan University Report #94 / 2024
RIAC, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International ...
... constitute by far the most important and the most fundamental difference in Russia’s and India’s takes on the Asian security agenda. The challenge for the Russian leadership is how to balance its rapidly expanding foreign policy and defence ties to China and the stated commitment to an
inclusive collective security system
in Asia. The challenge for the Indian leadership is how to balance its growing engagement with the United States and its ambitions to play a more central role in Eurasian security matters. These challenges are likely to have a lasting impact on Russia’s and India’s foreign policy agendas and might also affect their bilateral relations.
Potential participants to the system
Gleb Makarevich:
Inventing Eurasia: ...
... “Russian-Chinese Dialogue: 2024 model” roundtable was held at the Rossiya Segodnya Agency Press Centre. The event was attended by Andrey Kortunov, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Kirill Babaev, Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS), RIAC member, Xu Changzhi, Deputy Secretary General of the Council for Strategic Cooperation between China and Russia of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Artem Pylin,...
... mutual trade indicators, will be able to acquire systemic significance for the multipolar world order only if it is used to form and develop multilateral institutions. First of all, this concerns Eurasia—the space in immediate proximity to Russia and China. The most optimal format for dialogue on issues related to both the formation of the Eurasian security architecture and the economic development of the Eurasian region is the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
The SCO was conceived as a forum for communication between Russia, China and the five Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, ...
... is that India is not in a vacuum, being an integral part of a complex subregional security architecture marked by military and political confrontation between two regional powers (India and Pakistan) and the involvement of external players, primarily China and the United States. To evaluate how viable the Russian leadership’s concept of Eurasian security is in the South Asian context, let us consider each of the principles laid out.
Principle one: no objections
According to the Russian leadership’s idea, the parameters of the future security system should be coordinated with all stakeholders ...
... between Russia and the West should look like. This is true for both indivisible and cooperative security. They remained a hoped-for but unfulfilled possibility in relations with the West but have received a second historic chance in today’s ties with China.
А continent-wide Eurasian security framework should be resilient and guided by the principles of equality and indivisibility. Cooperative security ticks these boxes. The substance can vary. It depends on the priority threat that the region has. This threat is currently ...
