... features of this initiative.
Andrey Kortunov:
Restoration, Reformation, Revolution? Blueprints for the World Order after the Russia-Ukraine conflict
First of all, it would be wrong to think of the Marshall Plan as some bottomless source of financial resources that poured by the United States into the economy of Western Europe. In 1948–1951, Washington invested in Europe just over $13 billion, which is about $115 to $150 billion ...
... caused by the Western sanctions policy, and it also means protecting and developing both countries’ economic interests, rather than creating economic-relation problems for the West. It is also important to note that Russian-Chinese cooperation in the economy and other areas is quite normal. However, following the Russia–Ukraine conflict, people have started to see Russian-Chinese economic cooperation only through the lens of the conflict, interpreting it only as support or lack of support for Russia. Such an understanding is too subjective. China–Russia economic cooperation ...
Interview by Permanent Representative of Russia to the EU Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov for "Die Welt"
Ambassador, how would you describe EU – Russia relations ... ... future.
For that to happen, Moscow would have to be ready to implement the Minsk Agreements of 2015 to bring peace to Eastern Ukraine.
Have you read them?
A long time ago.
If you refresh your memory, you will see that Russia is not mentioned in the Agreements ...
... Euromaidan in 2014, one of the first steps taken by the new Ukrainian authorities was to implement association with the European Union. This decision defined the future of the Ukrainian economy, and to a large extent its social life, for years to come.
An Economy of Slow Growth and Debts
Even those experts who are clearly against Russia or oppose the multi-vectored policy adopted by Ukraine admit today that the European Union’s association mechanisms are faltering. They often tend to explain this by the hostilities in the East, the loss of part of the country’s territory and the post-Soviet and Soviet mentality of the majority ...
... Ukrainian elites have in many instances been unable to cope with the mission of ensuring the development of society and the government, which has resulted in a number of serious crises.
Economics of Degradation
By the time of the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine ranked second among the Soviet republics in terms of economic potential after Russia. This potential should have objectively been transformed with the country switching to the free-market economy model. Nevertheless, the very transition to that model proved an overall failure. The Ukrainian economy has developed in an obviously non-linear manner since 1991. From the beginning of the 2000s and up until the onset of the global financial ...
... Outlook: Legacies, Clouds, Uncertainties, International Monetary Fund, October 2014. P.188
3
. Ibid.
4
. How to Stabilise the Economy of Ukraine. Final Report. The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, 2015. P.13
5
. Ibid. P. 14
6
. Movchan V., Giucci R., Ryzhenkov M., Ukranian Exports To Russia: Sector and Regional Exposure. Technical Note Series [TN/03/2014], Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting ...
In a speech on Jan. 13, former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov spoke about his concerns for Russia’s ... ... Russian people have an interest in eliminating dangerous international situations.
On the economy
Russia is experiencing a difficult economic situation. There are external reasons:... ... significant portion of the population - more than 18 million citizens.
On the situation in Ukraine
Can we still speak of Russia's interest in having the southeast remain a part...
... Integration Research Department at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Europe and Russian International Affairs Council expert
Olga Potemkina
offers her thoughts on... ... strengthening economic growth, creating new jobs and improving the competitiveness of the EU economy. The heads of state and government will have to approve the Annual Growth Survey... ... choosing to take part in military actions in the Middle East.
As for foreign policy, the Ukraine crisis will take priority. On December 3, 2014, the Commission transferred yet...
... systemic crisis and not addressing the numerous problems it is facing. The key problems are overcoming the economic crisis, restoring the country’s territorial integrity, choosing the correct model for further development, normalizing relations with Russia and bringing the “Maidan state” in the country to an end.
Loans are the only hope
One of the most serious challenges facing Ukraine is the country’s deteriorating economy. The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine forecasts a 5 per cent drop in GDP for 2014. And this is just the current forecast. “In March, we forecast a drop of 3 per cent, but the situation between March and June has changed,...
... economic influence. The world has reached its historic peak in terms of the market economy’s territorial distribution, but development models are becoming increasingly... ... has become increasingly dependent on market factors and transnational competition.
Ukraine found itself in the thick of the geo-economic confrontation between the two... ... of the Ukrainian crisis lay not the territorial differentiation of the country, the Russian language law, corruption among Yanukovych administration officials, or even...