Search: Economy,Sanctions,Russia,European Union (11 materials)

 

New Sanctions Against Russia: Taking a Swing at the Ruble

The latest wave of sanctions does not bring qualitative changes—their impact on the Russian economy and its relations with foreign partners is unlikely to be fundamental Amid the second anniversary of the start of the Special Military Operation (SVO) in Ukraine, a number of Western countries and associations launched a new set of sanctions ...

11.03.2024

China and Russia: Dialog in the Face of External Challenges

The Russia-Ukraine conflict is the most radical international political change to date, ... ... increasingly moving towards opposing camps; economically, by global fragmentation, sanctions, and regionalization of the global economy; security-wise, by the highly dangerous slide from a “cold” to a “hot”... ... affects China–Europe relations since China does not Russia, contrary to what the European Union demands, putting China in a more difficult situation. Beijing greatly...

08.07.2022

Closing Loopholes: Outlining the U.S. and EU Sanctions Policy Onward

The next packages will be less spectacular, but they will be detrimental to specific businesses and areas of the economy Oil and KAMAZ The Official Journal of the European Union has published decisions and regulations included into the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions. The release of the new legal framework has been postponed several times on account of disagreements among the EU countries, with the most sensitive issue being the ban on Russian oil imports. Brussels, however, managed to reach consensus after ...

09.06.2022

The Caesar Act: A New Challenge for Syria?

... prerequisites for mobilizing Syria’s internal resources and expanding Russia’s economic presence On June 17, the United States began ... ... granted to the administration so that it could prepare secondary sanctions against foreign citizens for cooperating with Damascus ... ... experts thought that the country’s marginalization in the global economy would make it less vulnerable to the pandemic. The authorities ... ... reconstruction effort. The German expert Muriel Asseburg notes that the European Union’s consolidated standing is eroded by differences ...

10.08.2020

Russia and Belarus: The “Post-Soviet” Interaction Model Is Exhausting Itself

... problematic. Credibility and “shared meanings” are required. Russia–Belarus relation have taken a permanent place at the top ... ....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 ... ... agricultural products. Russia is the principal investor in the Belarusian economy. Rosatom is finishing construction of the first Belarus ... ... parties thus far have failed to settle the issue. The international sanctions against Russia, which are designed in such a way that ...

01.07.2019

Can Russia Plug Through US Sanctions to Reconstruct Syria?

Russia should not necessarily wait for the Europeans to join its rebuilding efforts As the United States eyes new sanctions on Syria, Russia increasingly finds it needs to work out solutions that would ... ... under Assad Jr. Syria embarked on the capitalist path, the progress toward the reformed economy was uneven. Many things were also backsliding under the influence from outside... ... Syrian reconstruction mainly in terms of rebuilding the damaged physical infrastructure, European Union states link the reconstruction efforts to political transition. Meanwhile...

18.06.2019

Meeting with Representatives of Denmark's Export Credit Agency and the Embassy of Denmark

On June 6, 2018, representatives of Denmark’s Export Credit Agency and the Embassy of Denmark visited Russian International Affairs Council. On June 6, 2018, representatives of Denmark’s Export Credit Agency and the Embassy ... ... were discussed in the course of the meeting: various aspects of relations between Russia and the West, application of new U.S. sanctions against Russia and Russia's response measures, recent developments in the interaction between Russia and the European Union, and the specifics of bilateral Russian-Danish relations. The priorities of Putin’s fourth presidential term,...

08.06.2018

Sanctions Have Not Been So Bad

Interview with Dr Richard Connolly, Associate Fellow for Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House With sanctions regime being present since 2014, Russia’s relations with the United States and the European Union have not been easy. Previously, the EU has been mostly in line with sanctions proposed by the US. Taken the possibility ... ... is probably overstated. But similarly, in certain EU countries and in the US, politicians over there will say that Russia’s economy is in tatters and it’s because of sanctions (the way Barack Obama put it). I don’t think that was true, either. Politicians ...

16.02.2018

Russia has to reinvent its economic model

Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), thinks that greater ... ... anti-terrorist coalition doesn’t exist. Western economic sanctions have been counter-productive since they failed to change ... ... like the one that they had during the Second World War. 3) The European Union (EU) has enforced economic sanctions against Russia ... ... The sanctions did have a serious negative impact on the Russian economy. However, they failed to change the Russian position in ...

10.03.2016
 

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  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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