... Indeed, the South Caucasus is viewed as a central geography for the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative, serving as a major corridor connecting China with European markets, while also offering substantial market potential.
Ivan Timofeev:
Eurasian Security Architecture: Origins, Core Principles, and Prospects for Evolution
Following the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, a new geopolitical configuration has emerged in the South Caucasus. These updated geopolitical realities and ...
... part of the broader Soviet Transcaucasian Railway system, it served as Iran’s primary northern gateway to the USSR and played a central role in Iran–Soviet trade, especially in energy, machinery, metals, grain, and industrial goods.
Ivan Timofeev:
Eurasian Security Architecture: Origins, Core Principles, and Prospects for Evolution
The railway connected Iran to Nakhichevan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and ultimately to the Soviet railway network stretching toward Moscow and other major Soviet industrial ...
... several decades. At its core was the premise that security dilemmas in Europe could be resolved through a system of fundamental principles, international treaties, and institutions that would preclude the possibility of military conflict.
Ivan Timofeev:
Eurasian Security Architecture: Origins, Core Principles, and Prospects for Evolution
Today, the European security architecture lies in ruins. In Russia, the focus has shifted from a European to a Eurasian perspective, which in itself has represented ...
... in the agenda of the Russian President’s summits with the leaders of China and India, discussed by CIS foreign ministers, and further developed within the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Russian diplomacy consistently incorporates the theme of a Eurasian security system into the dialogue with its partners in various parts of the world’s largest continent. [
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The intensification of activity in this sphere inevitably prompts a series of conceptual and political questions. What exactly is meant ...
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 ...
... recent years, the SCO has increasingly been portrayed as a platform for constructive discussions on security—in other words, without excessive ideologization and politicization. Russia has been particularly insistent on the SCO’s central role in Eurasian security, arguing that the organization should lay the foundation for a new system of cooperation among states
in line with the Shanghai Spirit
, which would replace Eurocentric and Euro-Atlantic models. It seems too early to speak of a complete ...
On June 2, 2025, the TASS Press Center hosted a RIAC roundtable on “Russian–Armenian Cooperation at the Present Stage.”
On June 2, 2025, the TASS Press Center hosted a RIAC roundtable on “Russian–Armenian Cooperation at the Present Stage.” The event included a presentation of RIAC
Policy Brief
.
Participants noted that for much of their shared history, Russian–Armenian relations have been marked by a high degree of mutual trust and a traditionally warm dynamic grounded in the cultural affinity...
... against Pyongyang and the six party negotiating mechanism. In the South East Asia region Moscow preferred not to take sides 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 this approach to the region has changed in a significant way. There are no longer prospects for improving Russia-Japan or ...
... brand-new venue for the parties’ connectivity cooperation [
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Yet, both projects would require from Russia and India significant investment, political will and creativity to not only make them economically feasible, but make sure they fit into broader Eurasian security architecture. And this is where Moscow and New Delhi might face convergence issues. Another challenge is of geopolitical nature, as involving India in Greater Eurasian Partnership proposed by Russia may clash with the fact that its core ...
On April 8, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), together with the Institute of World Politics and Economics (IWPE, Serbia), held a roundtable on “The Balkan Region in the Eurasian Security System.”
On April 8, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), together with the Institute of World Politics and Economics (IWPE, Serbia), held a roundtable on “The Balkan Region in the Eurasian Security System.” ...
