... recent
visit
of Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to Baku, Tbilisi and Yerevan showed, the movement in this direction has not stopped.
Second, while the focus of geopolitical confrontation between the West (the U.S. and its EU allies) and Russia has shifted from the Caucasus to the Middle East and Ukraine since 2014-2015, this region remains among the most turbulent in the post-Soviet space.
In the last four years alone, the status quo has changed twice in this part of Eurasia. As a result ...
Russia and the EU currently seem to be nowhere near even embarking on a path towards “Cold Partnership”. The EU and Russia ... ... This changes Moscow’s foreign policy rationale and opens a window of opportunity for more constructive engagement with the European Union, including on the Donbas conflict. Both sides are able to steer their relationship through the choppy waters of ...
EUREN Report 2
EUREN
Report 2
EUREN members believe that the EU and Russia will not be able to overcome their fundamental disagreements in the coming decade. But the two sides can come to a pragmatic partnership that safeguards peace and stability in Europe. This is the main finding of the EUREN scenario-building process,...
... interests” only is problematic. Credibility and “shared meanings” are required.
Russia–Belarus relation have taken a permanent place at the top of news feeds over... ... EAEU countries was $36.5 billion at year-end 2018, while its trade turnover with the European Union was $17.3 billion (24.2 percent of the state’s total trade turnover)... ..., MIC and agricultural products.
Russia is the principal investor in the Belarusian economy. Rosatom is finishing construction of the first Belarus NPP in Astravets (financed...
... new government in Berlin is always a new opportunity — not only for Germany itself, but also for its international partners, Russia including
I understand the fundamentals. Russia lost Germany back in 2014 or even earlier. Seventy-three years after ... ... many critically important international matters. Germany is and will always be a disciplined member of NATO and that of the European Union; it will not take any initiatives that might look risky, inappropriate or untimely to other members of these organizations....
... international conference in Jurmala, Latvia. The conference, entitled “Russia–EU: The Challenges of Interdependence and the Setting ... ... Trubnikov, Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences ... ... they tend to overlook the membership of these countries in the European Union, with all the attendant obligations in terms of ... ... support of non-military deliveries and reverse transit for the International Security Assistance Force with the use of the transportation ...
... Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), having refused to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union. Armenia has no common borders with the Customs Union member states;... ... Armenia and the WTO will focus
on an increase in rates in significant sectors of the economy to the level adopted in the EEU .
In the meantime, the Eastern Partnership (EaP)... ... accession to the EEU as a means to ensure a free movement of goods, services, and labor. Russia’s leading role in Armenia’s trade turnover also tipped the scale...